{"id":298898,"date":"2025-11-22T04:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T04:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/298898\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T04:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T04:15:10","slug":"what-was-the-best-shot-of-the-grass-court-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/298898\/","title":{"rendered":"What was the best shot of the Grass-Court swing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the 2025 season complete, we\u2019re looking back at all the incredible matches and picking the top shots from each of the swings. Next up is the Grass-Court swing.<\/p>\n

World No. 2 Iga Swiatek dominated the swing with her first career Wimbledon title and also emerged victorious in Bad Homburg the tournament prior. Marketa Vondrousova and Tatjana Maria won WTA 500s at Berlin and the HSBC Championships, respectively.<\/p>\n

Elise Mertens, McCartney Kessler and Maya Joint won 250-titles in s\u2019Hertogenbosch, Nottingham and Eastbourne.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve narrowed it down to our five favorite shots from the swing. Which do you think was the best? Check them out below and vote for your top pick at the bottom.<\/p>\n

Note: We’ve only selected shots from WTA 1000, 500 and 250 events.<\/p>\n

Linda Noskova\u2019s unbelievable down-the-line winner<\/p>\n

Linda Noskova really had no business winning this point. Jessica Pegula moved her from corner to corner and set herself up with an overhead smash.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when Noskova did the unthinkable, lunging for an unbelievable backhand winner down the line. Both Pegula and Noskova stood in disbelief. Pegula won this Bad Homburg semifinal 6-7 (2), 7-5, 6-1, but Noskova took home June’s Shot of the Month<\/a> honors.<\/p>\n

Linda Noskova’s backhand winner has herself in disbelief<\/p>\n

Laura Siegemund\u2019s hustle scores in Bad Homburg<\/p>\n

Victoria Azarenka made Laura Siegemund earn this point in Bad Homburg.<\/p>\n

Initially, Siegemund moved Azarenka from each end of the court, but somehow Azarenka kept the point alive. After Siegemund hit a backhand return from her baseline, Azarenka attemped a drop shot, but Siegemund\u2019s speed to dig the ball won this hard-fought point in front of the German crowd.<\/p>\n

Azarenka won the match 6-2, 6-2.<\/p>\n

Laura Siegemund sprints to dig and win point in Bad Homburg<\/p>\n

Mirra Andreeva\u2019s set-point slice<\/p>\n

The spin that Mirra Andreeva put on this slice is wicked.<\/p>\n

On both set and break point against Magdalena Frech in the first round of Berlin, Andreeva saw Frech\u2019s positioning and went for the slice.<\/p>\n

Landing on the sideline, the ball\u2019s spin caused a change of direction Frech wasn\u2019t expecting, ultimately securing the first set for the teenager. Frech, however, came back to win 2-6, 7-5, 6-0.<\/p>\n

Mirra Andreeva takes first set in Berlin with nasty slice<\/p>\n

Ekaterina Alexandrova\u2019s jaw-dropping backhand<\/p>\n

The crowd\u2019s collective gasp in unison is all you need to know about this point.<\/p>\n

Early in the first set in a semifinal matchup between Ekaterina Alexandrova and Elise Mertens in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Mertens appeared to have hit the winning forehand, so much that there was some premature clapping.<\/p>\n

But Alexandrova didn\u2019t quit, lunged for an incredible backhand return and broke Mertens\u2019 serve. The match turned out to be a thriller with Mertens emerging victorious 2-6, 7-6 (7), 6-4 to advance to the final.<\/p>\n

Ekaterina Alexandrova lunges for backhand winner against Elise Mertens<\/p>\n

Heather Watson\u2019s acceleration from baseline scores drop shot<\/p>\n

We end the nominees with doubles in Eastbourne.<\/p>\n

Heather Watson and Mingge Xu were tied 5-5 in the opening set vs. Magali Kempen and Tang Qianhui. In this quick, 11-shot rally, Watson tried a cross-court winner and a lob to break through, but it wasn\u2019t until she saved a smash volley and hustled for a winning drop shot to secure the point.<\/p>\n

Heather Watson and Mingge Xu win entertaining doubles point in Eastbourne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 2025 season complete, we\u2019re looking back at all the incredible matches and picking the top shots…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593,5452],"class_list":{"0":"post-298898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}