Guadalajara qualifying heads a WTA-only day

The words on this page are drafted each morning by a language model from the day's schedule, results and broadcast rights; start times and channels come from the data, not the model. Corrections to Joe Lucibello.

Viewing guide · Thursday, September 17, 2026

Guadalajara qualifying heads a WTA-only day

Every tournament on court today, who is playing, and where to watch.

Tour-level tennis today is WTA only, and both events are in the Americas. The Guadalajara Open Akron is the bigger of the two and is at the qualifying stage.

Guadalajara supplies the rest, including the clearest single call of the day, played in the late evening in Mexico.

Sao Paulo's matches start in the afternoon in the Americas and run into the evening in the UK; Guadalajara follows later, with its last pick after midnight for UK readers. In the United States both events are on Tennis Channel and the Tennis Channel app, and in the UK on Sky Sports Tennis through NOW and Sky Go. Australia has beIN SPORTS and its CONNECT service plus Stan Sport. In Canada, Guadalajara is on TSN with TSN+ and WTA TV, while Sao Paulo is streaming only.

◆ What's on today

Live board →

WTA 500Hard$1.206M

1 on court nowHard

Guadalajara Open Akron

Guadalajara, MEX · 5 still in the draw

The biggest event on the card and the only tournament at this level today. Qualifying is being played, with M. Kostyuk the model's favourite among those still in.

Model favourite: I. Jović at 46% to take the title

Tennis ChannelT2Tennis Channel app

Sky Sports TennisNOWSky Go

Queen's Club, the UK's only WTA 500, is also on the BBC free-to-air and Tennis Channel UK.

beIN SPORTSStan SportbeIN SPORTS CONNECT

TSNTSN+WTA TV

Selected events only on TSN.

WTA 250Hard$283K

4 still to playHard

SP Open

Sao Paulo, BRA · 9 still in the draw

P. Badosa is the model's favourite among the players left in the draw.

Model favourite: P. Badosa at 32% to take the title

Tennis ChannelT2Tennis Channel app

Sky Sports TennisNOWSky Go

Nottingham and Eastbourne, the British WTA 250s, are also on the BBC and Tennis Channel UK.

beIN SPORTSStan SportbeIN SPORTS CONNECT

TSN+WTA TV

Rarely on linear TV in Canada.

◆ Elsewhere

Also on: Phan Thiet 4 — Challenger 50, Biella — Challenger 50, Guangzhou — Challenger 100, Rennes — Challenger 100, Szczecin — Challenger 125, Tiburon — Challenger 125, Caldas da Rainha — WTA 125, Ljubljana — WTA 125, Valencia — WTA 125 — Challenger and WTA 125 events run alongside the main tour and are usually streamed rather than televised; see the tour passes below.

◆ Worth watching

Ranked by the model

Live10:40 pm ET3:40 am UK12:40 pm AEST

Guadalajara · WTA 500 · qualifyingHard● On court

P. Stearns #60vS. Stephens #169

Model: 65% P. Stearns · 35% S. Stephens

Live11:00 pm ET4:00 am UK1:00 pm AEST

Phan Thiet 4 · Challenger 50 · qualifyingHard● On court

C. Hewitt #333vI. Simakin #177

Model: 29% C. Hewitt · 71% I. Simakin

Live11:00 pm ET4:00 am UK1:00 pm AEST

Phan Thiet 4 · Challenger 50 · qualifyingHard● On court

M. Dellavedova #268vH. Heck #700

Model: 59% M. Dellavedova · 41% H. Heck

◆ Tour streaming passes

▸

Tennis TV — the ATP's own service: Masters 1000, 500 and 250 events plus the ATP FinalsAvailable worldwide, but geo-blocks are set per tournament and change season to season - Masters 1000 events and the Finals carry no restriction, while some 500s are blocked in their host country. No Grand Slams, no WTA.

▸

WTA TV — the WTA's own service, positioned as the fallback where there is no local broadcasterBlacked out in markets with a local rights holder, which includes the UK and the US.

▸

Challenger TV — the full ATP Challenger Tour, live and on demandFree on ATPTour.com, with a companion YouTube channel launched in 2026.

▸

WTA Unlocked — WTA 125 tournamentsFree, usually two courts per event.

It is a modest day at tour level, with the two tour-level events both on the WTA side and neither past its opening stages. Below that there is a broad slate of Challenger events and smaller WTA tournaments across clay and hard courts. Challenger TV carries the men's Challenger events free, the WTA's smaller events stream free on WTA Unlocked, and WTA TV is blacked out in the UK and the US, where local rights holders hold the coverage.

← 2026-09-16 All viewing guides 2026-09-18 →

Channels are listed from KickServe's curated rights map (updated 2026-07-25) and can change at short notice — always check your local listings. Start times are earliest-possible: a match begins when the previous one on that court finishes. Win probabilities come from our rating model and are context, not betting advice.