Women’s tennis results and more

Written by: Staff on 11th August 2013

WTA tennis tournament in Washington, DC.

Women's tennis results and more

epa03807958 Germany's Angelique Kerber returns a serve to USA's Irina Falconi during their women's singles at the Citi Open WTA tennis tournament in Washington, DC, USA, 30 July 2013. EPA/SHAWN THEW |

WESTERN & SOUTHERN OPEN

Cincinnati, OH, USA

August 12-18, 2013

$2,369,000/Premier

Hard/Outdoors

Order Of Play – Monday, August 12, 2013

Center Court (from 11.00hrs)

1. ATP: Kohlschreiber vs. Fish

2. Samantha Stosur vs. Svetlana Kuznetsova (NB 13.00hrs)

3. ATP: Tipsarevic vs. Querrey

4. Jana Cepelova vs. Venus Williams (NB 19.00hrs)

5. ATP: Blake vs. Janowicz (NB 20.30hrs)

Grandstand (from 11.00hrs)

1. ATP: Baker vs. Istomin

2. ATP: Almagro vs. Dimitrov

3. Sloane Stephens vs. Petra Martic

4. ATP: Goffin vs. McDonald (NB 19.00hrs)

5. Mirza/Zheng vs. Date-Krumm/Parra Santonja

Court 3 (from 11.00hrs)

1. Lauren Davis vs. Klara Zakopalova

2. ATP: Mónaco vs. Melzer (NB 13.00hrs)

3. ATP: Fognini vs. Stepanek

4. Angelique Kerber vs. Karin Knapp

5. Bethanie Mattek-Sands vs. Roberta Vinci (NB 19.00hrs)

Court 9 (from 11.00hrs)

1. ATP: Granollers vs. Rosol

2. Medina Garrigues/Pennetta vs. Hantuchova/Hingis (NB 12.30hrs)

3. Anna Tatishvili vs. Maria Kirilenko

4. Fish/Melzer vs. Nieminen/Simon (after suitable rest)

5. Monica Puig vs. Eugenie Bouchard

Court 4 (from 11.00hrs)

1. Seppi/Youzhny vs. Paire/Wawrinka

2. Vania King vs. Kristina Mladenovic

3. ATP: Tursunov vs. Klizan

4. Marosi/Moulton-Levy vs. Flipkens/Kvitova (NB 15.30hrs)

Court 6 (from 11.00hrs)

1. Simona Halep vs. Hsieh Su-Wei

2. ATP: Chardy vs. Mannarino

3. Marina Erakovic vs. Carla Suárez Navarro (NB 15.00hrs)

4. Sofia Arvidsson vs. Alisa Kleybanova

Court 7 (from 12.00hrs)

1. Dushevina/Soler-Espinosa vs. Begu/Zhang (ROU/CHN)

2. Goerges/Zahlavova Strycova vs. Kops-Jones/Spears

3. Jankovic/Lucic-Baroni vs. Kudryavtseva/Rodionova (NB 16.00hrs)

ROGERS CUP

Toronto, Canada

August 5-11, 2013

$2,369,000/Premier

Hard/Outdoors

Results – Sunday, August 11, 2013

Singles – Final

(1) Serena Williams (USA) d. Sorana Cirstea (ROU) 62 60

Doubles – Final

Jankovic/Srebotnik (SRB/SLO) d. (3) Groenefeld/Peschke (GER/CZE) 57 62 106 (Match TB)

Final Facts

– Williams wins her 54th WTA title, moving into sole possession of ninth place on the Open Era titles list.

– Williams ties her personal best for most WTA titles won in a season with her eighth, having also won that many in 2002.

– Williams improves to 3-0 against Cirstea, having never lost more than two games in a set.

– Williams passes the $5 million prize money mark for the season, the third time she has achieved that feat.

– Williams wins this event for the third time, tied with Martina Navratilova for third most titles at this event. Chris Evert and Monica Seles share the record with four each.

– Cirstea recorded three Top 10 wins en route to her first Premier-level final and is projected to climb to a career-high No.21 on the new rankings.

– Jankovic and Srebotnik win their first WTA doubles title as a duo in their second outing. It is Jankovic’s second WTA doubles title and Srebotnik’s 34th, four of which have come this year.

Final Quotes

Serena Williams: “I knew she had had a lot of big wins and a lot of momentum going into this match. She also had nothing to lose out there, so I knew it wasn’t going to be an easy match for me today.

“I knew I had to play better today than last night. With that in mind, I just tried to do that.”

Sorana Cirstea: “It’s been a really positive week, and I’m going to take everything that’s been going well with me to the next tournament. I think I’ve made great steps in the past weeks – I’ve played semis, quarters, finals here – so I’m looking forward to everything coming up and also the US Open.”