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September 28 WTA rankings: Fernandez 26th; Gibson and Birrell enter top 50Singapore champion Fernandez rose five places and Seoul winner Birrell climbed 19. The same update placed Ku Yeon-woo at 175 and Park So-hyun at 304.

Tournaments

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Korea OpenWTA · Seoul · The 2026 Korea Open was a WTA 250 held September 21–27 on outdoor hard courts at the Seoul Olympic Park Tennis Center. The singles draw had 32 players and the doubles draw 16 teams. Kimberly Birrell defeated Maya Joint 6–4, 6–2 in the final to win her first WTA Tour singles title.

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Maya JointWTA · Australia · #90

Tennis journal

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5–0 was not the finish: the Williams sisters and the lead a tiebreak can take away

5–0 was not the finish: the Williams sisters and the lead a tiebreak can take awaySerena and Venus Williams led the deciding US Open tiebreak 5–0 before losing 10–7. Their 2026 doubles return shows why a big lead still leaves two teams with work to do.