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Serena Williams is the overwhelming favorite to become the first player to successfully defend the TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships title since Justine Henin in 2007 but the world no.1 maintains she has been placed in the toughest group for round robin play throughout the week in Istanbul.
The Women’s Tennis Association announced that Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki and USA’s Sloane Stephens are the singles alternates at the TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships, to be staged at the Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul, Turkey, from October 22-27, 2013. Wozniacki will be the first alternate and Stephens the second.
Richard Gasquet, we have good news and bad news for you.
The good news is, of course, that he won the title here. It's the tenth title of his career, and his third of 2013. That matches the best previous year of his career, in 2006.
Former champion Petra Kvitova was among the first to arrive for this week's WTA Championships in Istanbul, with the Czech more than happy to be back in the thick of the wrap-up week after being unable to complete the event a year ago.
And so Roberta Vinci loses yet another chance to reach the Top Ten; indeed, it appears she will fall a couple of spots. That means the final Top Ten spot would go to either Caroline Wozniacki or Sloane Stephens, who were contesting it at Luxembourg.
Rafael Nadal told the magazine Cosas Peru that he is not ready to start a family yet as “it's much easier to start a family when you have a stable life. When you have an unstable life, as we do as players --we travel anywhere in the world every week, it’s not as easy.”
Surprisingly easy for Samantha Stosur, particularly given that she just flew in from Osaka. Kaia Kanepi is usually stronger than that, when she is able to play.
IMG’s Max Eisenbud has a track record of going for the sport’s very best when it comes to employing coaches for his players and the more unpredictable the appointment the better.
The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) announced that Germany’s Angelique Kerber has earned the eighth and final singles place at the TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships, to be staged at the Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul, Turkey, from October 22-27, 2013.
Milos Raonic will make his Perth debut as Canada fields a side for only the second time at the eight-nation Hopman Cup mixed team event starting three days after Christmas.
Group A: Poland (Jerzy Janowicz, Agnieszka Radwanska, US (John Isner, Sloane Stephens), France (Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Alize Cornet), Canada (Milos Raonic, Eugenie Bouchard)
Roger Federer will take a 9-0 record against Andreas Seppi into his opening match after the Italian booked his spot against the four-time champion with a 6-4, 6-2 defeat of Lleyton Hewitt.
The WTA announced that Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova, Italy's Sara Errani and Serbia's Jelena Jankovic have qualified for this year’s TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships.
The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) announced today that Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova, Italy's Sara Errani and Serbia's Jelena Jankovic have qualified for this year’s TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships, to be staged at the Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul, Turkey, from October 22-27, 2013.
While the type of move that the WTA tournament in Linz made to insure that it could give a last minute wild card to Angelique Kerber isn’t unheard of in tour history, it was unusual.
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