Tennis families Twenty-two years. That is how long it has been since Lleyton Hewitt won the title in Washington, and this week his son came through qualifying into the main draw of the same tournament. Cruz Hewitt is 17, ranked outside the top 600, and plays Marcos Giron in the first round. It is his first ATP main draw, and it is a smaller novelty than it sounds. The tour is thick with players whose surname arrived before they did.
Feature ATP rankings Thirty. That is how many places Luca Van Assche gained after winning the Estoril title, from No. 78 to a career-best No. 48 in the ATP rankings. He was one of two Frenchmen with a tour-level title this week: Quentin Halys won Kitzbuhel and rose 31 places to No. 52. Neither result stirred the top of the list, where Jannik Sinner stayed unmoved at No. 1.
Ranking tale WTA rankings Twenty-nine. That is how many places Lilli Tagger climbed in this week's WTA rankings, from No. 74 to a career-best No. 45, after the 18-year-old won the Livesport Prague Open. She was one of four players to break into the top 50 in a week when the entire top 10 held its exact place.
Ranking tale Estoril Zero. That is how many ATP tour finals Luca Van Assche had reached before this week. The 22-year-old, ranked 78, won the Estoril Open on Sunday, beating Alexander Blockx 6-4 4-6 7-5 for his first tour title, in the first tour-level final of his career.
Match tale Livesport Prague Open Eighteen. That is Lilli Tagger's age, and in Prague on Sunday she won the first WTA title of her career, beating Daria Snigur 7-6(3), 6-2 in the final. Unseeded and ranked 74th in the world, Tagger reached the trophy by beating the tournament's third and second seeds back to back, a run that ended with her first tour title at just 18.
Match tale Hamburg Four. That is how many times Tamara Korpatsch has played Anna Bondar, and how many times she has won. Korpatsch beat Bondar 6-3, 6-3 in the Hamburg final for her second career title, her first since Cluj Napoca in 2023.
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