THE EVE EDITION
AFTERGLOW | MON OCT 12
Allysha Chapman got her goodbye at BMO Field on Monday, just not the result to go with it. She came on in the 89th minute for her 100th and final cap with Canada chasing a fourth goal that never came, and Denmark held on to win a 4-3 friendly that swung from a teenager’s first assist to three Danish goals in nine minutes and back again. Chapman, the left back from Courtice, Ontario, was celebrated by teammates and the crowd at the whistle, on a day when three of her longtime teammates were honored for 150 caps.
Monday kept rewarding whoever refused to settle. The Ericeira final was decided in its last minutes, and in Wuhan the home crowd watched two Chinese players ranked outside the top 200 beat seeded opponents, one of them after facing three match points. Even the friendlies kept turning, from San Salvador to Andorra la Vella, where a team beaten 5-0 on Friday won.
Denmark Spoils Chapman’s Farewell
Denmark beat Canada 4-3 in Toronto as Allysha Chapman played her last minutes for her country. DB Pridham scored her first international goal in the 10th minute off 18-year-old Kaylee Hunter’s first assist, but Olivia Holdt chipped Kailen Sheridan from near halfway, Pernille Harder scored her 87th international goal and Holdt added another, all inside nine minutes. Évelyne Viens scored four minutes after halftime, Janni Thomsen curled in Denmark’s fourth on the counter, and Olivia Smith’s 70th-minute goal left Canada one short.
“We should have been 2-0 up before they scored their first goal,” Casey Stoney said. Kadeisha Buchanan, Jessie Fleming and Ashley Lawrence were honored for 150 caps, and Canada’s next match is the Concacaf W quarterfinal against Panama on November 28. Chapman, a national-team player for 12 years, won Olympic bronze in Rio and gold in Tokyo.
Hennessy Wins Ericeira as Kerr Qualifies
Brisa Hennessy sat fourth for much of the EDP Ericeira Pro final before a 7.50 in its closing minutes gave her 13.17 and the title, ahead of 16-year-old Lucy Darragh, Sierra Kerr and Vahine Fierro. The Costa Rican rose to fourth in the Challenger Series rankings, inside the six Championship Tour places, with one event left.
Kerr’s third place clinched her 2027 Championship Tour spot, the first woman to qualify this season, after Lyme disease cost her three months of 2025. Darragh, who posted the day’s best quarterfinal total, climbed 25 places to 20th.
Han Shi Topples Eala in Wuhan
Qualifier Han Shi, ranked #217, beat #13 Alexandra Eala 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Center Court for her first win over a top-20 player, hitting 31 winners to Eala’s 20. “Before the match I was prepared to lose badly, so I served boldly in my service games,” Shi said. She plays Leylah Fernandez next.
Asian Games champion Xiyu Wang opened the night by beating Xinyu Wang 6-2, 6-0 in 68 minutes, eight years after the two won the Wimbledon girls’ doubles title together.
Ayala Hat Trick Lifts Paraguay
Monserrath Ayala scored three times as Paraguay came from 2-0 down to beat El Salvador 3-2 in San Salvador. Her equalizer came from a free kick two minutes after El Salvador went down to 10, and Danya Gutiérrez, who had scored El Salvador’s second goal, was sent off as well.
Andorra beat the Faroe Islands 2-1 for the first time, three days after losing 5-0 to them, Morocco and Uzbekistan drew 0-0 in Rabat, and Georgia won 1-0 in Moldova.
Woods’ Free Kick Lifts BYU
Bella Woods curled a 51st-minute free kick around the wall and #20 BYU beat Cincinnati 1-0 at Gettler Stadium, four days after its first Big 12 loss. Paiton Collins made four saves in her first start of the season, including a late sliding stop on Brooklynn Schomaker.
BYU moved to 8-3-2 and 4-1-1 in the Big 12, handed Cincinnati its first home loss and hosts unbeaten Texas Tech on Friday.
Perez Pins Green as Morgan Opens Her Reign
Liv Morgan’s first Raw as Women’s World Champion ended with her foot on Chelsea Green. Morgan tripped Green on the ropes, Roxanne Perez pinned her with Pop Rox, and after the bell Morgan hit Oblivion as the Judgment Day stood over the WWE Women’s Champion. The two champions meet at Crown Jewel in Riyadh on November 7.
IYO SKY named herself Raquel Rodriguez’s next Women’s Intercontinental Championship challenger, and Stephanie Vaquer and Becky Lynch came face to face two nights after costing each other the title.
Guo Saves Three Match Points in Wuhan
Wild card Hanyu Guo was a set and 4-0 down and faced three match points before beating #12 Sorana Cîrstea 1-6, 7-6(6), 7-5 in two hours, 41 minutes, a Wimbledon doubles champion playing through a summer in which her father was admitted to intensive care. Maria Sakkari came from a set down to beat #8 Marta Kostyuk 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.
Daria Snigur broke #14 Elise Mertens five times in a straight-sets upset, Jelena Ostapenko hit 35 winners in a 59-minute win over Daria Kasatkina, and #11 Diana Shnaider and #16 Maja Chwalińska advanced.
LAST LIGHT
Hannah Ounap, a Scot playing for Washington, leads the St Andrews Links Collegiate after a 6-under 66 on the Jubilee Course, one shot ahead of Texas’ Farah O’Keefe, the world’s #1 amateur, while Texas leads the team race by six. At Medinah, Illinois, Indiana and Missouri are tied at 16-under after 36 holes of the Illini Women’s Invitational.
Spain returns to face the USWNT tonight in Chester, Pennsylvania, three days after winning 2-0 in Washington, and Europe’s World Cup play-offs finish their first round this afternoon. In Wuhan, Iga Świątek, #2 Jessica Pegula and #5 Elina Svitolina all open overnight.