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What makes a star in the making shine? Is it the marketability? The constant hype around “the next best thing” or is it just the opposite and a quiet determination to do the right things and get the job done that marks out Madison Keys as the one to watch this year.
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The brutally hot and humid conditions that have struck this years US Open claimed another victim as Eugenie Bouchard was detained in the medical headquarters of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center for several hours after suffering heat exhaustion during her fourth round exit to Ekaterina Makarova.
Eugenie Bouchard (Westmount, QC) and Milos Raonic (Thornhill, ON) were seeking quarter-final berths at the U.S. Open on Labour Day Monday at the U.S. Open in Flushing Meadows, New York. / Eugenie Bouchard (Westmount, QC) et Milos Raonic (Thornhill, ON) étaient tous deux en quête d’une première présence en quart de finale des Internationaux des États-Unis.
Samantha Stosur led in both tiebreaks -- including 4-0 in the first set tiebreak -- but when it came down to it, it was Serena Williams versus Samantha Stosur, and you know who will blink in those situations! That will cost Stosur three ranking spots, but it still looks as if she'll be one of the Top 24 U. S. Open seeds.
American women have claimed eleven titles at Wimbledon over the past fifteen years. Ten of those titles belong to women who have the last name Williams and the other belongs to Lindsay Davenport. Maybe it’s the name of the “trophy”.
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Wimbledon finalist Sabine Lisicki has been trying out a coaching arrangement with Martina Hingis though the new grouping did not work particularly well at the WTA Dubai event.
A quartet of current and former No. 1 players made winning starts, with top-ranked wild card Serena Williams leading the way. The winner of 11 title in 2013 who has never done better than the semi-finals in the Gulf, defeated Ekaterina Makarova 7-6 (10-8), 6-0 in a hard-fought second-round battle at the Aviation Club after a bye.
Third Paula Ormaechea of Argentina made a winning start at the new event as she defeated American Nicole Gibbs 6-2, 6-1. But Italy's Nastassja Burnett upset sixth seed Maria Teresa Torro of Spain 7-5, 6-4 at the relatively weak event on a week in which many top women prefer playing in Dubai halfway around the world.
Lucie Safarova produced 31 winners and broke serve five times in a defeat of former Australian open semi-finalist Sloane Stephens 6-3, 7-5, the second first-round loss in as many week for the American.
This arguably should have gone the other way, and in straight sets. Sara Errani seemed to be cruising into the second set, breaking in Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova's first service game -- only to lose seven straight games. It looked as if the marathon she had played the night before had cost her.
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Perhaps Li Na appeared capable of winning her first Grand Slam title in 2011 when she reached the Australian Open final for the first time but she was not, as Kim Clijsters was a better player than she was then and Li was way too inconsistent.
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