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Maria Sharapova's months-long shoulder injury absence from the WTA is starting to take on a life of its own - at least in Bulgaria, the home country of boyfriend Grigor Dimitrov.
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.
Things just keep getting better for Simona Halep, who will end this week at #14, with every reason to think she can go higher next year.
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.
This was a day of upsets, and for a little while, it looked as if our #1 seed might be one of them. He survives -- but it doesn't do him any good in the race or rankings yet; this is too small to count.
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.
Top seed Caroline Wozniacki beat hometown player Mandy Minella 6-3, 7-6(2) to lead the tournament elite into the second round.
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.
Czech fifth seed Lucie Safarova began her week with a win over China's Peng Shuai 7-5, 6-4 while Serb Bojana Jovanovski, seeded eighth, beat former French Open winner Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 6-3.
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.
Juan Martin del Potro couldn't do much in the first set; Djokovic was running him all over the place. But the Argentine's power started to tell as he built a 3-0 lead.
Victoria Azarenka is one of the most notorious grunters on tour, but she doesn't think that she’s unusual and says that there isn’t any real difference between the men’s and women’s games when it comes to players emitting loud noises.
This was pretty long, too (more than an hour and three-quarters), but the bottom line is, Rafael Nadal isn't giving Novak Djokovic any help at all in the contest for the year-end #1.
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