The first week of the 2025 WNBA playoffs has been packed with excitement, delivering close games and plenty of energy for fans.

Four teams punched their tickets to the 2025 WNBA semifinals. Here's what to know, including lineups, head-to-head records and X-factors.

It's fitting that many of the opening round playoff series are going the distance after the balanced regular season the WNBA had. There will be three decisive Game 3s over the next two days. That's the first time that's happened since 2015.

View news about the Seattle Storm vs. Las Vegas Aces game played on September 18, 2025 including player news, injury news, predictions, analysis and more.

The Las Vegas Aces saw their 17-game winning streak end on Tuesday in dramatic fashion, as the Seattle Storm picked up an 86-83 victory to force a Game 3 in the best-of-three first round series.

Breanna Stewart, despite injuring her knee Sunday, took the floor for Game 2, but the Liberty lost in a rout to send the best-of-three series back to Phoenix.

Paige Bueckers, A'ja Wilson, Angel Reese, Veronica Burton, and Natalie Nakase earn first round of individual awards handed by the WNBA