Rybakina takes a tour-leading fourth title in Ningbo, Świątek ends her season, and Medvedev defends Almaty to close on Turin
Elena Rybakina takes her fourth title of 2026 in Ningbo as Iga Świątek ends her season and the WTA Finals field closes, with Medvedev, Musetti and Griekspoor winning the men's events and both top 10s shifting.
Elena Rybakina won the BNB Ningbo Open on Sunday, beating Leylah Fernandez 6-2, 6-2 in 76 minutes 1.
The title is her fourth of the season, more than any other player has won in 2026, and her winning run in Ningbo now stands at eight matches. It is also the first time in her career she has defended a singles title 1.
Five days before that final, Iga Świątek pulled out of the same tournament with a left thigh injury and ended her season. Świątek had been in contention for the last place at the WTA Finals 2.
Karolína Muchová was named the eighth and final qualifier on Wednesday, which completed the singles field for Indian Wells 3.
This issue covers 19–25 October 2026 and closes at Monday's 10:00 UTC cutoff. Five tour-level titles were decided inside it, all at 500 level or below, and all five finals were played on Sunday.
Results at a glance
| Event | Final | Score |
|---|---|---|
| BNB Ningbo Open (WTA 500) | [1] Elena Rybakina bt Leylah Fernandez | 6-2, 6-2 1 |
| Almaty Open (ATP 250) | [1] Daniil Medvedev bt Nikoloz Basilashvili | 6-7(6), 6-1, 6-3 4 |
| Lyon (ATP 250) | [6] Lorenzo Musetti bt [2] Taylor Fritz | 6-3, 6-4 5 |
| Brussels (ATP 250) | Tallon Griekspoor bt Jan-Lennard Struff | 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 6 |
| Japan Open, Osaka (WTA 250) | Katerina Siniakova bt Ashlyn Krueger | 6-1, 6-0 7 |
BNB Ningbo Open (WTA 500): the champion defends a title for the first time
Ningbo ran from 19 to 25 October on outdoor hard courts at the Yinzhou Tennis Center, with $1,206,446 in prize money 89.
Rybakina broke Fernandez twice in each set of the final and did not lose her own serve once 1.
The title's 500 ranking points take her from 9,196 to 9,501. Ningbo is her seventh title at WTA 500 level and the 15th of her career, and the win over Fernandez is her 53rd tour-level match win of 2026, the most on tour 1.
Her other three titles this season came at the Australian Open, Stuttgart and the US Open 1.
Fernandez, unseeded, came from a set down to beat seventh seed Elise Mertens 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the first round. Every opponent after that was unseeded or a qualifier 8.
The draw thinned early. Third seed Marta Kostyuk retired in her first match of the week, having lost the opening set to Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-4 8.
Fifth seed Belinda Bencic lost in the round of 16 to Katarzyna Kawa, a qualifier, 7-5, 6-2, and eighth seed Sorana Cirstea went out at the same stage to Sara Bejlek, 7-6(3), 6-4 8.
Fourth seed Iva Jović reached the quarterfinals and lost there to sixth seed Diana Shnaider 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 8.
Jelena Ostapenko retired in the first round against Bencic at 6-3, 1-1 8.
Świątek's withdrawal came on 20 October, before her first match. Alternate Anastasia Zakharova took her place in the draw and lost in the round of 16 to Marie Bouzková 28.
Świątek finishes the season with a 39-15 record and a title in Toronto 2.
Almaty Open (ATP 250): a 25th title, and a qualifier in the final
Almaty ran from 19 to 25 October, its seventh edition, at the Almaty Arena on indoor hard courts, with $1,075,160 in prize money 1011.
Medvedev beat qualifier Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-7(6), 6-1, 6-3, saving two set points to force the first-set tie-break 7.
The trophy is Medvedev's 25th on the ATP Tour and his fourth of 2026, and it is the first time he has defended a title at tour level 7.
Basilashvili is ranked No. 128 and was playing his first tour-level final since 2022. He had beaten seventh seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in the semifinal 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-3 711.
Third seed Alexander Bublik retired from his semifinal against Medvedev after losing the first set 6-3 12.
Second seed Luciano Darderi lost his opening match of the week in the round of 16 to James Duckworth, 7-5, 7-6(7), and fourth seed Andrey Rublev went out at the same stage to Adrian Mannarino, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 11.
Lyon (ATP 250): a first title since 2022
Lyon ran from 19 to 25 October on indoor hard courts, with €757,320 in prize money 13.
Musetti beat second seed Taylor Fritz 6-3, 6-4 in 81 minutes, breaking early in each set and drawing 28 unforced errors from Fritz 10.
It is Musetti's third title on the main tour and his first since Hamburg and Naples in 2022. It ended a run of seven straight defeats in tour finals 10.
He reached the final the hard way: four match points saved against fourth seed Flavio Cobolli in the semifinal, which he won 4-6, 6-2, 7-5, after a quarterfinal against Luca Van Assche that ran three and a half hours 10.
Fritz reached the final by beating Tommy Paul 6-3, 7-5 in the other semifinal 13.
Brussels (ATP 250): three comebacks from a set down
Brussels ran from 19 to 25 October on indoor hard courts, with €723,435 in prize money 14.
Griekspoor beat Jan-Lennard Struff 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, serving 19 aces and converting his first match point 12.
The title is Griekspoor's fourth on tour and his first since Mallorca in 2025 12.
He came from a set down for the third match in succession in the final, having also dropped the first set against second seed Jiri Lehecka in the quarterfinals and third seed Francisco Cerundolo in the semifinal 12.
Struff, 34, reached the final by beating top seed Arthur Fils 6-4, 6-7(5), 7-6(5) in the semifinal 12.
Japan Open, Osaka (WTA 250): ten games in a row
Osaka ran from 19 to 25 October on outdoor hard courts, with $283,347 in prize money 15.
Siniakova beat Ashlyn Krueger 6-1, 6-0 in 64 minutes, winning ten games in a row from 2-1 in the first set 5.
The win gives Siniakova her sixth singles title and her first since Nanchang in 2023. She is the top-ranked doubles player on tour 5.
She beat second seed Peyton Stearns, Magda Linette, Mary Stoiana and eighth seed Katie Boulter on the way to the final, dropping one set in the week 5.
Krueger was playing her third tour-level final. She had beaten fourth seed Talia Gibson in the quarterfinals and top seed Ann Li 6-4, 6-7(4), 6-3 in the semifinal 515.
Rankings watch
ATP, Monday 26 October. 16
| Rank | Player | Movement | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jannik Sinner | — | 10,450 |
| 2 | Alexander Zverev | — | 9,750 |
| 3 | Carlos Alcaraz | — | 5,610 |
| 4 | Ben Shelton | — | 4,680 |
| 5 | Daniil Medvedev | — | 3,860 |
| 6 | Flavio Cobolli | — | 3,690 |
| 7 | Félix Auger-Aliassime | — | 3,515 |
| 8 | Arthur Fils | +2 | 3,425 |
| 9 | Frances Tiafoe | — | 3,380 |
| 10 | Alex de Minaur | −2 | 3,280 |
A dash means the position is unchanged from the table published on 19 October.
The only change of place inside the top 10 is a swap: Fils rises two to No. 8 and de Minaur falls two to No. 10. Fils gains 100 points to 3,425; de Minaur loses 150 to 3,280 16.
Medvedev's Almaty title lifts him from 3,660 points to 3,860 and holds him at No. 5. Sinner slips 500 points to 10,450 and Zverev 320 to 9,750, both still first and second 16.
Griekspoor's Brussels title takes him up 10 places to No. 50, and Struff's run to the final lifts him 11 to No. 47 16.
WTA, Monday 26 October. 17
| Rank | Player | Movement | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elena Rybakina | — | 9,501 |
| 2 | Aryna Sabalenka | — | 7,550 |
| 3 | Mirra Andreeva | — | 6,306 |
| 4 | Jessica Pegula | — | 6,225 |
| 5 | Coco Gauff | — | 5,973 |
| 6 | Elina Svitolina | — | 5,229 |
| 7 | Karolína Muchová | — | 4,725 |
| 8 | Iga Świątek | +1 | 4,389 |
| 9 | Linda Noskova | −1 | 4,353 |
| 10 | Marta Kostyuk | — | 3,920 |
Świątek and Noskova trade eighth and ninth, the only change of place in the top 10. Świątek's total holds at 4,389 because she added nothing; Noskova drops 325 points to 4,353 17.
Rybakina's Ningbo title takes her from 9,196 to 9,501 at the top. Muchová is 108 points down at 4,725 and stays seventh 17.
Below the top 10, Siniakova's title in Osaka lifts her 37 places to No. 49. Krueger, the runner-up there, rises 11 to No. 44, and Fernandez's run to the Ningbo final moves her up seven to No. 23 17.
Chwalinska holds at No. 11, 904 points behind Kostyuk at No. 10 17.
The week ahead: 26 October – 1 November
Four events open on Monday 26 October, two on each tour.
Vienna is an ATP 500 at the Wiener Stadthalle on indoor hard courts, with a 32-player draw and €2,797,985 in prize money. Alexander Zverev is the top seed, Carlos Alcaraz second and Medvedev third 1618.
Basel runs the same week at the St. Jakobshalle, also an ATP 500 and also indoors, with €2,584,155 in prize money. Ben Shelton is the top seed, Fils second, Rafael Jodar third and Novak Djokovic fourth 19.
On the women's side, the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo is a WTA 500 at the Ariake Coliseum, and Rybakina is its top seed a week after Ningbo. Chwalinska is seeded second 20.
Guangzhou is a WTA 250 at the Nansha International Tennis Center, with $283,347 in prize money 21.
Then the two season finales. The WTA Finals run from 8 to 15 November at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, with Rybakina, Sabalenka, Andreeva, Noskova, Gauff, Pegula, Svitolina and Muchová in the singles field 322.
The ATP Finals run from 15 to 22 November in Turin. Zverev, Alcaraz and Shelton have qualified; Jannik Sinner will not play because of injury 7.
Medvedev, who plays Vienna this week and the Paris Masters from 31 October, is closing on a place there after Almaty 7.
References
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- 8Ningbo 2026 results
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- 92026 Ningbo Open
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- 102026 Almaty Open
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- 11Almaty 2026 results
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- 13Lyon 2026 results
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- 14Brussels 2026 results
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- 15Osaka 2026 results
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- 16ATP rankings for 26 October 2026
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- 17WTA rankings for 26 October 2026
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- 182026 Erste Bank Open
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- 192026 Swiss Indoors
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- 202026 Toray Pan Pacific Open
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- 212026 Guangzhou Open
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- 222026 WTA Finals
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