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Gauff reaches back-to-back Rome finals with straight-sets win over Cirstea
Coco Gauff (No 4) reached a second straight Rome final with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Sorana Cirstea (No 26), ending a run of three consecutive three-set wins in the Italian capital. It is the American's seventh WTA 1000 final at 22 – and her second of 2026 after Miami.
May 14, 2008: The day world No 1 Justine Henin suddenly quit professional tennis
Every day, Tennis Majors takes you back in time to relive a tennis event which happened on this specific day. On May 14, 2008, Justine Henin, then the world No 1, shocked the tennis world with the sudden announcement that she was to retire
“In a way it freed me up”: Sorana Cirstea on the late-career breakthrough she didn’t expect
Sorana Cirstea announced this would be her last year on tour. It is shaping up as one of her best. The 36-year-old explains, with unusual clarity, why deciding to leave unlocked the tennis.
Svitolina turns it around against Rybakina to reach first Rome semi-final since 2018, Swiatek next
Elina Svitolina (No 7) turned the Foro Italico quarter-final around against Elena Rybakina (No 2), winning 2-6, 6-4, 6-4. She now meets three-time Rome champion Iga Świątek for a place in the final.
“More like a clay-court player”: Swiatek is rediscovering the version of her game that won three Roland-Garros titles
Iga Swiatek is into the Rome semi-finals, hasn't faced a break point in two days, and on Wednesday told reporters she is back to "playing more like a clay-court player." Roig is delivering.
Rome: Gauff survives Andreeva marathon
May 12, 1979: The day Tracy Austin ended Chris Evert’s 125-match clay-court winning streak
Gauff saves match point to reach third straight Rome quarter-final
“I’m trying to be transparent but also not give the whole world my business”: Coco Gauff admits off-court struggles
“A little door is always open”: Sorana Cirstea, into the Rome second week, hasn’t quite shut the door on staying
“It was like a check”: the rematch Naomi Osaka has been waiting for, and the test Iga Swiatek wants before Paris
Rybakina marches past Eala as Rome’s favourites rule this part of the women’s draw
Sabalenka cites lower-back and hip issue after Rome exit, plans “days off” before Roland-Garros
Cirstea stuns Sabalenka in three on Campo Centrale as world No. 1 falls in Rome
Mertens saves three match points to dethrone Paolini and end Italian’s two-year top-10 run
Gauff drops first set, then loses just one service game to reach Rome last 16
“The most natural shot I have”: Lilli Tagger explains the one-handed backhand, after a Rome loss to Sakkari
“More natural, more solid, kind of disciplined”: Iga Swiatek’s early verdict on working with Francisco Roig
“Really, like, shitty, literally”: Iga Swiatek recounts her Madrid illness ahead of Rome return
“It was almost like a curse”: Marta Kostyuk on finally letting go of the 15-year-old prodigy