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Venus Williams saved a match point and overcame a determined challenge from Roberta Vinci to earn her place in Saturday’s Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open final.
Venus Williams admitted that she had to ‘dig deep’ to fight her way into the semi-finals of the Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open in China.
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.
Two time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka opened her account at the Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open with a 62 76(4) win over American qualifier Lauren Davis on Sunday.
The USTA today announced that Venus Williams has received the fifth annual US Open Sportsmanship Award, presented to the professional tennis players who best demonstrate excellence in sportsmanship throughout the Emirates Airline US Open Series and the US Open.
Check out some of the photos from the match between the Williams sisters at the 2015 U.S. Open tennis.
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’.
American players did a little bit of everything on Sunday at the U.S. Open. The headliners, of course, were Serena and Venus Williams.
The crowds on the impressive Ashe Stadium had a bit of a treat. No… a lot of a treat, with the existing men’s champion continuing his defence, before Williams major and minor took to the court… ah ah ah, but not together!
We said it could be Williams’ toughest test, under the lights on Ashe – and we were right. Mattek-Sands wasted no time in announcing her intention, running out three games on the trot as Williams once again had a sluggish start.
The lack of preparation and niggling injuries as we approach the last few months of the season yet again takes its toll, as Caroline Wozniacki was bundled out of the tournament.
Can I take a moment just to say what a relief it is to have the first round done and dusted in two days?
Cometh the starting hour, cometh the shocks, so it is written…. somewhere, I’m sure. Ana Ivanovic was the first big shock of the day, as her opener on Ashe ended in a nightmare at the hands of last year’s Australian Open finalist Dominika Cibulkova
Maria Sharapova sealed a mad half hour in the evening in Cincinnati as first Venus Williams withdrew from the last night match of the schedule with a viral illness, before the World No. 2 came in to discuss the reasons for pulling out.
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