WESTERN & SOUTHERN OPEN
Cincinnati, OH, USA
August 12-18, 2013
$2,369,000/Premier
Hard/Outdoors
Results – Sunday, August 18, 2013
Singles – Final
(2) Victoria Azarenka (BLR) d. (1) Serena Williams (USA) 26 62 76(6)
Doubles – Final
(3) Hsieh/Peng (TPE/CHN) d. (6) Groenefeld/Peschke (GER/CZE) 26 63 1210 (Match TB)
Final Facts
– Azarenka wins her 17th WTA title, with 16 of those coming on hardcourts and three coming this year.
– Azarenka improved to 3-12 in her series with Williams, albeit 3-3 in finals.
– Azarenka wins her second match against a reigning World No.1, her first one having also been over Williams at Miami in 2009.
– This was the fifth time the World No.1 and World No.2 faced off this year, with this being the first win by a World No.2.
– Williams will spend her 150th week as World No.1 next week, a feat only five other players have achieved.
– Despite the loss, Williams still clinches a first place finish in the Emirates Airline US Open Series.
– Hsieh and Peng win their seventh WTA title as a duo and third this year, while improving to 7-0 in WTA finals.
– Hsieh and Peng extend their winning streak to 10 matches.
Final Quotes
Victoria Azarenka: “Obviously a big win. It was a great match. I’m really, really pleased with the way I pulled it out. It was a great battle. Nothing was given away. It was pure fight. I’m really happy.”
Serena Williams: “We go against each other really tough. I think it’s a good rivalry. I’m No.1. She’s No.2. So we have a rivalry that consists of meeting in the final, which makes it even more exciting.”
Peng Shuai: “They started playing well in the first set and it put a lot of pressure on us. Also, it was our first time playing them together as a team, so we also didn’t know how to play them a little bit. We called our coach at the start of the second set and from there we just tried to fight, and we’re really happy we could come back and win the second set and of course win the match in the end, as well.”
NEW HAVEN OPEN AT YALE
New Haven, CT, USA
August 18-24, 2013
$690,000/Premier
Hard/Outdoors
Results – Sunday, August 18, 2013
Singles – First Round
(7) Sabine Lisicki (GER) d. Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 75 61
Doubles – First Round
(2) Medina Garrigues/Srebotnik (ESP/SLO) d. Grandin/Jurak (RSA/CRO) 63 26 105 (Match TB)
Aoyama/Klepac (JPN/SLO) d. Begu/Govortsova (ROU/BLR) 63 64
Hradecka/Zakopalova (CZE/CZE) d. Chan/Husarova (TPE/SVK) 62 62
Singles Qualifying – Final Round
Anna Schmiedlova (SVK) d. (3) Elina Svitolina (UKR) 76(4) 62
(10) Karin Knapp (ITA) d. (4) Annika Beck (GER) 76(4) 46 62
(5) Stefanie Voegele (SUI) d. Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) 63 36 21 ret. (right forearm injury)
(6) Monica Puig (PUR) d. Caroline Garcia (FRA) 62 64
(7) Ayumi Morita (JPN) d. Mariana Duque-Mariño (COL) 62 61
Alison Riske (USA) d. (9) Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) 64 62
Order Of Play – Monday, August 19, 2013
Stadium (from 12.00hrs)
1. Simona Halep vs. Daniela Hantuchova
2. Dominika Cibulkova vs. Klara Zakopalova
3. Anna Schmiedlova vs. Sloane Stephens (NB 15.30hrs)
4. Caroline Wozniacki vs. Peng Shuai (NB 19.00hrs)
5. Urszula Radwanska vs. Petra Kvitova
Grandstand (from 12.00hrs)
1. Carla Suárez Navarro vs. Roberta Vinci
2. Bojana Jovanovski vs. Julia Goerges
3. Monica Puig vs. Hsieh Su-Wei (NB 15.00hrs)
4. Alison Riske vs. Stefanie Voegele
Court 1 (from 12.00hrs)
1. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Sorana Cirstea
2. Elena Vesnina vs. Ayumi Morita
3. Ekaterina Makarova vs. Aleksandra Wozniak
4. Karin Knapp vs. Elina Svitolina
Court 2 (from 12.30hrs)
1. Mirza/Zheng vs. Kalashnikova/Rosolska
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