February Shot of the Month<\/a> honors.<\/p>\n Karolina Muchova hits unimaginable tweener in Dubai semifinal<\/p>\n
Mirra Andreeva\u2019s cross-court forehand winner<\/p>\n
From one Dubai semifinal to the other, our next nominee comes from the eventual champion, Andreeva, who became the youngest WTA 1000 champion at 17 years old.<\/p>\n
Andreeva\u2019s court coverage during this rally is flawless. Elena Rybakina had the teenager all over the court, but Andreeva won the point — and game — with a cross-court forehand winner that Rybakina couldn\u2019t reach despite being at the net.<\/p>\n
Andreeva won 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 to secure her first career win over Rybakina.<\/p>\n
Mirra Andreeva’s court coverage sets up forehand winner vs. Rybakina<\/p>\n
Aryna Sabalenka wins slice battle at the net<\/p>\n
This point in Doha between Aryna Sabalenka and Alexandrova is a textbook display of footwork and play at the net.<\/p>\n
Both players traded multiple cross-court slice shots at the net, sparking a crowd reaction in the middle of the rally. Though Sabalenka, leading 3-1 in the first set at the time, would win this remarkable point, Alexandrova secured the upset over the top seed 3-6, 6-3, 7-6.<\/p>\n
Aryna Sabalenka wins incredible point at the net in Doha<\/p>\n
Leylah Fernandez\u2019s quick reaction saves point<\/p>\n
This is one of the quickest reactions at net we’ve ever seen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After Ashlyn Krueger hit a drop shot from the baseline, Leylah Fernandez stormed to the net and played a drop shot back. Fernandez\u2019s return allowed Krueger to potentially hit a clean winner, but instead, Krueger\u2019s forehand went straight toward Fernandez, whose quick reaction to hold her racquet saved the point.<\/p>\n
Though the Canadian won the point, Krueger won the quarterfinal match in Abu Dhabi 7-5, 4-6, 6-2.<\/p>\n
Leylah Fernandez’s quick reaction saves point vs. Ashlyn Krueger<\/p>\n
Rebecca Sramkova\u2019s sliding down-the-line winner<\/p>\n
Slovakia\u2019s Rebecca Sramkova was inching closer to a first-round victory over Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto in Linz. Just two points away from the win, Sramkova certainly had to work for each point.<\/p>\n
In this remarkable 16-shot rally, Sramkova and Cocciaretto traded powerful forehand and backhand shots, but Sramkova\u2019s court coverage and sliding forehand winner down the line set up double match point. Sramkova capitalized, winning 7-5, 7-5.<\/p>\n
Rebecca Sramkova caps off 16-shot rally with forehand winner<\/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":300407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428,1959],"class_list":{"0":"post-300406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}