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• WTA Rome 2013: Serena Williams beats Victoria Azarenka to the title

  
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  Many rued the departure of the glamorous, popular defending champion, Maria Sharapova from the Foro Italico—unbeaten in the tournament but beaten by illness. But it left the way open for possibly the most compelling contest in women’s tennis at the moment between the two women who have shared the No1 rankings ...
  3 days ago

• Serena Williams to play Sharapova in Mutua Madrid Open 2013 final

  
  Stevegtennis.com — Authority: 143
  In the first of the two semi final matches on Saturday, top seed Serena Williams took on seventh seed Sara Errani. In their quarter final matches, Serena dropped the second set to love against Anabel Madina Garrigues – only the sixth time in her entire career that that has happened [...]
  1 week ago

• Serena and Sharapova book Madrid Open semi-final place

  
  Stevegtennis.com — Authority: 143
  In the first of the quarter final matches being played on Madrid on Friday, top seed Serena Williams took on the 63rd ranked Spaniard, Anabel Madina Garrigues, who made it this far in the tournament when Yaroslava Shvedova pulled out of their third round match. Both in the thirties, these [...]
  1 week ago

• Ivanovic beats Kerber to reach Madrid semis, Errani also through

  
  Stevegtennis.com — Authority: 143
  The 24th seed Ekaterina Makarova, the Russian giant killer who ousted both 3rd seed Victoria Azarenka and 14th seed Marion Bartoli on her way to the quarters, took on the Italian 7th seed Sara Errani. The Italian got the early breaks and led 2-1 and 4-2 in the first set, [...]
  1 week ago

• Sloane Stephens Learns Lesson as Laura Robson Flies Free — The Friday Five

  
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  By Maud Watson Lesson Learned At the start of the week, Sloane Stephens experienced some off court drama in addition to the woes she continues to suffer on court, thanks to the young American’s dumb decision to publicly call out Serena Williams, essentially branding the veteran a phony. Yes, a little bit of ...
  1 week ago

• Sharapova beats Lisicki, plays Kanepi in Madrid quarter-finals

  
  Stevegtennis.com — Authority: 143
  In a third round match in the bottom half of the draw, 2nd seeded Russian Maria Sharapova took to the Manolo Santana Centre Court at the Matua Madrid Open to play against the 39th ranked German, Sabine Lisicki. Sharapova had to work hard in the second set of her first [...]
  1 week ago

• Serena defeats Kirilenko to book Madrid quarter-final place

  
  Stevegtennis.com — Authority: 143
  At the one hour mark in the match between 13th seeded Russian Maria Krirlenko and top seeded American Serena Williams, the score stood at 6-3 5-0. That was when the Russian got on the scoreboard for the first time in the second set, but the American served out the set [...]
  1 week ago

• Singapore to Host the WTA Tour Championships from 2014 through 2018

  
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  It has been announced that Singapore will host the WTA Championships from 2014 through 2018. There were two other options on the short list, Tianjin, China and Monterrey, Mexico, but the WTA Tour decided on Singapore. Players will compete for a record prize money purse of US$6.5 million at the 7,500-seat Singapore ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kuznetsova beats Petrova to reach 3rd round in Madrid, Cibulkova out

  
  Stevegtennis.com — Authority: 143
  Slovak 15th seed, Dominika Cibulkova, defeated the 73rd ranked qualifier Lesia Tsurenko, in her first round match with the loss of just five games. On Tuesday she played the 39th ranked German, Sabine Lisicki, who also easily won her first round match in straights against Sofia Arvidsson. With nothing separating [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Serena Williams moves into third round in Madrid

  
  Stevegtennis.com — Authority: 143
  Second round matches continued on Tuesday at the Matua Madrid Open tournament. 36th ranked Kazakh Yaroslava Shvedova, who took out 10th seed Caroline Wozniacki in the first round, played against 22nd ranked Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium, who beat Mona Barthel in her first round encounter. The Kazakh got the breaks [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Sharapova and Errani reach third round of Mutua Madrid Open

  
  Stevegtennis.com — Authority: 143
  Sara Errani, the Italian 7th seed, had to draw on all her experience and use all her renowned clay court skills to get past the 26th ranked Roumanian, Sorana Cirstea, in her second round match on Monday. The Italian took out Ursula Radwanska in straight sets in the first round, [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Robson upsets Agnieszka Radwanska to advance in Madrid

  
  Stevegtennis.com — Authority: 143
  10th seed Caroline Wozniacki started the run of seeds to fall in the first round of the Premier Level Matua Madrid Open on Sunday, followed later that day with the demise of 5th seed Na Li and 12th seed Roberta Vinci. In the start of second round play on Monday, [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Azarenka battles past Pavyuchenkova to reach Madrid Open second round

  
  Stevegtennis.com — Authority: 143
  In the ladies’ singles night match on Monday which completed the first round at the Matua Madrid Open, 3rd seed Victoria Azarenka had a major battle on her hands when she came up against the 19th ranked Russian, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Azarenka has been off the tour for almost two months [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Ivanovic beats Petrova in Stuttgart, Kerber and Li through to round three

  
  Stevegtennis.com — Authority: 143
  The second round of the Porche Grand Prix clay court tournament kicked off on Thursday in Stuttgart with seeds Na Li, Angelique Kerber, Petra Kvitova and Nadia Petrova all in action in the afternoon session. The only seed to fall was Petrova, the 8th seeded Russian, who was beaten in [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Italy beats Czech Republic in Fed Cup semis

  
  Stevegtennis.com — Authority: 143
  In the Fed Cup semi final being played on red clay in Palermo, Italy, home player Sara Errani went on court to play Petra Kvitova, to try to close out a 3-0 victory over the Czech Republic, while Kvitova was playing to keep her team alive in the tie. On [...]
  4 weeks ago

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