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After the glitz and glamour of the draw ceremony, and some much needed rainfall to disperse the legendary (and not in a good way) haze, it was down to business at the Media All-Access sessions.
The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) announced today that Angelique Kerber has qualified for this year’s BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by SC Global.
Did you hear the one about the player who thought she was in the WTA Finals, then was out, then was maybe in but now could be out? No, dear readers, do bear with me – Global Chick isn’t giving you the run-down of how to tell who is who in that great British game of cricket…
Defending Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open champion Petra Kvitova battled her way past rising star Daria Gavrilova with a hard-fought 6-3 4-6 7-5 in the evening session on Tuesday.
Venus Williams got her Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open campaign off to the perfect start with a 6-1 7-6(4) victory over Agnieszka Radwanska in the evening session.
The courts were dry, there were even signs of sunglasses, t-shirts and shorts amongst the crowd, but would the first semi-final between Simona Halep and Flavia Pennetta shine?
It is difficult to know if it is just something in the water that the 30-somethings are looking to rule the roost in Flushing Meadows.
Victoria Azarenka coasted through once more into the quarter-finals of the US Open, as she ended USA’s Varvara Lepchenko’s hopes in a challenge of the fist-pumping ‘c’monnnnns’.
Starting off Day 3 was Madison Keys, playing on Arthur Ashe for the first time. Fair to say there were no nerves as she dominated Tereza Smitkova in the first set.
Check out the latest tennis photos of the players and their awesome clothes at the US Open 2015.
After a bunch of scattered seeds, we feel like a veritable plough, raking over the rest of the Round 1 matches.
Will Serena achieve a Grand Slam, winning all four majors in the same year, or will WTA Rising Star Belinda Bencic, or Maria Sharapova trip her at the final hurdle?
It is fair to say it has been an up and down tournament for Williams, rarely looking happy with her performance, and at times on Sunday looking like she was in pain as Simona Halep showed us once more what she can do.
Click here to see the latest photos from the men's and ladies' Western & Southern Open tennis tournament in Cincinnati.
With all the rain that greeted my arrival in Cincinnati on the first day of the Western and Southern Open, any worries I may have had about a fear of missing out were allayed by one pretty torrential rain in the region – not good news for my well travelled, but ultimately non-rain-proof fabric Converses.
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