THESE -ATHLETIC AMERICAN- WOMEN : TENNIS WORLD HONOURS

America's top women's tennis players have spent 2025 doing what they have done for a while :  delivering when the lights shine brightest.

They won the first two Grand Slams, with Madison Keys taking the Australian Open and Coco Gauff  the French.

Amanda Anisimova reached the Wimbledon Final, before she and Jessica Pegula made the U.S. Open semifinals, Anisimova made the final, too, meaning that an American woman contested all four major finals of 2025.

The past two months have brought more of the same. Anisimova and Gauff won the two biggest trophies on offer, Anisimova at the China Open in Beijing and Gauff at the Wuhan Open, both WTA  1000 events. Pegula was Gauff's opponent in the Wuhan final and reached the semifinals in Beijing.

That wrapped the most successful regular season for American women in nearly a quarter of Century.

Keys, who has been rehabilitating an unspecified injury since the U.S. Open, joined Gauff, Anisimova and Pegula at the WTA Finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The United States has massive advantages in women's tennis. It's big, with a population of over 300 million ; it's wealthy, with a far higher gross domestic product per person than any other large country.

It also holds a legally enshrined aspiration of promoting access to sports regardless of race or gender because of Title IX.

The World Students Society thanks Matthew Futterman.