In our weekly feature on the ins and outs in women's sport, we focus on the Women's Big Bash League, Michelle Wie's return to action and Orlando Pride's new head coach.
Cricket
The 2019 Women's Big Bash League semi-finalists have been decided with the Sydney Sixers taking on the Melbourne Renegades while the Sydney Thunder up against Brisbane Heat.
Defending champions Sydney Sixers cemented their position as favourites to win the title for a third consecutive time as they finished top of the standings after the round-robin stage.
And up in the play-offs are the Renegades, who just edged the Perth Scorchers to fourth place.
The 2015-16 champions Sydney Thunder and Brisbane Heat will contest the first semi-final next weekend with Heat opener Beth Mooney hitting form at the right time.
Mooney notched up a 53-ball century in the Heat's final round-robin match win over the Thunder over the weekend.
"I don’t want to lose any more sleep about my batting or dreaming about my back lift, so it’s obviously nice to finally contribute," the Australian batter told Bigbash.com.au.
"I feel like I haven’t done the best I can do this season, so hopefully that means the best is yet to come for me come finals time."
Golf
Michelle Wie continues her rehabilitation from wrist surgery, but the American is confident she will be fit to defend her HSBC Women's World Championship title in Singapore that starts on February 28.
"I've been doing my training, doing my workouts every day. I'm just excited to be healthy again and give it my all," she told LPGA.com.
She added: "I cannot wait. I'm so excited to get back out there."
Netball
The Quad Series featuring Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa kicked off in Liverpool over the weekend.
Commonwealth Games champions England opened their tournament with a 54-41 win over the Silver Ferns, their fourth consecutive win over the Antipodeans.
The 13-point winning margin also equalled the Roses' biggest-ever win over New Zealand, but head coach Tracey Neville is more focused on getting consistency out of her team ahead of the World Cup later this year.
"A lot of people were wary that it was the end of our journey at that Commonwealth Games," she told The Guardian. "The gold medal for me wasn’t the priority, it was the consistency of results. It’s about beating world No 1 consistently, and we haven’t done that against Australia. Twenty years ago I started playing netball and I was sat in a room and it was about beating world No 1 and 2.
"We wanted to be one of those people that people wanted to be. I can probably say we are, however, there’s still a lot of work to go before the World Cup. People don’t look at these results, they look at the major championships and those are the things we need to keep backing up."
Meanwhile, defending Quad Series champions Australia, who lost captain Caitlin Bassett just before the start of the tournament due to a broken arm, swept South Africa aside as they claimed a record 62-45 victory.
It was a tight opening first half as Australia just edged to a 27-25 lead, having been down by five goals at one point. However, they were a different side in the second half as they blitzed South Africa.
Football
The Women's Super League has a new leader as Manchester City moved top on the back of a slip-up from Arsenal.
Caroline Weir, Lauren Hemp and Nikita Parris scored as City beat West Ham 3-1 while Jane Ross was on the scoresheet for the Hammers, who dropped to seventh in the league.
"We knew about the Arsenal result before we kicked off but we didn't think too much about that, we were just focused on ourselves," Man City forward Weir said.
"It was always going to be a tough game but we deserved the win. We're delighted with our performance in difficult conditions."
The Gunners, meanwhile, went down 2-1 to Chelsea with a brace from Erin Cuthbert enough to earn the defending champions the three points in the London derby.
City lead the standings by one point, but Arsenal have a game in hand while Chelsea are another two points adrift of their London rivals.
In other results, Bristol City beat fourth-placed Birmingham City 1-0 away from home, Liverpool claimed a 2-1 win over Yeovil thanks to an injury-time winner from Courtney Sweetman-Kirk, and Brighton and Everton battled to a goalless draw.
Birmingham's defeat to Bristol was manager Marc Skinner's last in charge as he is off to take over as head coach of National Women's Soccer League outfit Orlando Pride.
"Marc will bring a breath of fresh air to the Pride through his modern approach to the game while instilling a foundation of principles to build from. He is both an innovative and progressive manager," the American club said in a statement.
"We have an incredible opportunity in 2019 and beyond, and we are confident that Marc has the ability to create a winning culture with the Pride."
In the Women's Championship, Manchester United's match away to Charlton Athletic was abandoned after Charlotte Kerr picked up a serious injury.
Addicks defender Kerr was injured during a goalmouth scramble and received extensive treatment on the field.
After a delay of more than an hour, the referee decided to abandon the match.
"Charlotte was transferred to a local hospital by ambulance and her condition has improved," Charlton said in a statement.
"The club will not know the full extent of the injury until a full scan has been completed. The club would like to send its sincere thanks to Manchester United and their staff for their assistance in treating the injury."
Tennis
The 2019 season-opening Grand Slam, the Australian Open, kicked off Monday and it was a mixed opening day for the Brits with Heather Watson and Hariett Dart crashing out, but Katie Boulter claimed a brilliant win.
Watson lost 6-1, 6-2 to Petra Martic while Dart's main draw debut ended in an emphatic 6-0, 6-0 defeat at the hands of former world No 1 Maria Sharapova.
However, Boulter stopped the rot as she beat Ekaterina Makarova 6-0, 4-6, 7-6 (10-6) and in the process became the first player to win a match via the new first-to-10 deciding set tie-breaker rule.
By Shahida Jacobs, Tennis365 editor