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Some players just never lose that winning habit and after becoming an unlikely doubles champion at Miami’s Sony Open again, 17 years after first winning the singles title at the Florida event, Martina Hingis is gearing up to play many more events on this season’s WTA calendar.
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For the first time in four years, seven-time Grand Slam singles champion Venus Williams is returning to Philadelphia when she visits the Villanova University Pavilion with the three-time defending Mylan World TeamTennis (WTT) Champion Washington Kastles to challenge the Philadelphia Freedoms on Thursday, July 17.
Television coverage of Miami has been the subject of controversy over the past week, attracting scrutiny of the rights deals covering the tournament.
When Maria Sharapova went up 3-1 in the first set, we couldn't help but think, "Waitaminit, wasn't she just getting her serve plastered?" Yes, she was, but somehow she had saved all the break points (four in just two service games), and Serena had blown one.
With her ability to balance between the demands of her profession and the public relations and commercial side of the sport, Maria Sharapova is in a perfect position to see both sides of a WTA complex issue.
This was a very long, very tough battle -- it really does seem as if Caroline Wozniacki is coming back to life. Coming back enough, at least, to have put herself in the Top Fifteen. But she had a lot of help -- Li Na made 32 errors in the first set, as against just one winner for Wozniacki.
The five leading women's seeds all won, led by Serena Williams, who beat Coco Vandeweghe 6-3, 6-1. Williams was finally satisfied after some patchy performances on court. "I was really struggling my first two matches, so I just wanted to have a better performance today," the world number one said.
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Based on current rankings, these seedings should have been reversed -- Sloane Stephens came in ranked #16, Caroline Wozniacki #18. But you would never have known it! And, because Stephens was defending 140 points and Wozniacki only 80, that will reverse -- Stephens will fall to no better than #18, with Wozniacki probably #17 and with the chance to go higher.
Mathematical memo to Maria Sharapova and her entourage: During the first two sets of Sharapova's match with Lucie Safarova, she was winning 34% of second serve points. At the same time, she was putting in 64% of first serves, and winning 70% of those points. Had she fired a first serve on her second serve, she would have double-faulted dozens of times but would have won 45% of second serve points.
The second set of this was frankly pretty ugly, but Caroline Wozniacki survived. She's still only #17 in safe points, though, and will need a lot more to go any higher. Monica Puig will be around #55.
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