Futterman: The Australian Open women’s semifinal, Madison Keys over Iga Świątek in a deciding tiebreak. A match point saved. The outcome uncertain until the final ball. A player winning a monumental match on her way to fulfilling a life mission. All of it done and dusted in a two-hour-and-35-minute knot of tension.

Maybe it will be Coco Gauff, the last American woman to win a Grand Slam title. That was in June, when she won the French Open. But Gauff has been shaky all summer, so shaky that she’s hired a biomechanics specialist to fix her troublesome serve.

Women's tennis world rankings are calculated by the WTA, who award points based on a player's performance at particular tournaments. The further a player progresses in a sanctioned event, the more points they will be awarded. Grand slams provide the most points with 2000 awarded to the winner and 1200 to the runner-up.

Sportico dropped its list of the top earning women's athletes and, again, tennis players dominated. Ten of the top 15 earners came from the sport.

The 24-year-old pointed out that finishing as number 2 is a great success, stressing that the competition on the tennis scene is stronger than ever.

The freedom to treat a mixed gender match as entertainment is not a step backward, but a hard-earned marker of progress for women.

Eight of the top ten Highest-Paid Female Athletes in the Phorbes' list for 2025 feature WTA players Coco Gauff, Aryna Sabalenka, and Iga Swiatek are in

For the third straight year, tennis superstar Coco Gauff was named the highest-paid female athlete, Forbes announced on Tuesday in their annual list for 2025.

See the 2025 Forbes list of the world's highest-paid female athletes, which counts both on- and off-field income—and features two women hauling in at least $30 million.