Fiona Ferro caps perfect week with win over Anett Kontaveit in Palermo final

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France's world No.53 Fiona Ferro twice came back from a set down in the second set to upset Estonian fourth seed Anett Kontaveit in the Palermo Ladies Open final and win her second WTA...

Kontaveit, Ferro to meet in Palermo final

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Even though the Palermo Ladies Open quarterfinals featured as many as three Italian players, none of them will be in the final, as unseeded Fiona Ferro eliminated the last Italian standing Camila Giorgi in...
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Palermo PHOTOS: Top seed Martic advances, Giorgi the only Italian left standing after quarterfinals

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Top seed Petra Martic survived yet another tough battle to progress into the Palermo Ladies Open semifinals, while Camila Giorgi is the only of the three Italians to make it past the quarterfinals. Top seed...

Palermo PHOTOS: Kontaveit, Martic, Giorgi rally to reach quarterfinals

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Thursday's schedule at the Palermo Ladies Open featured four second-round matches and in the first three the winners rallied from a set down in encounters that lasted over two hours. After losing the first set,...

Palermo PHOTOS: Errani, Cocciaretto please home fans with second-round victories

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In Wednesday's second-round action at the Palermo Ladies Open, Sara Errani recorded a tour-leading 180th career win on clay, while her fellow Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto made the first WTA quarterfinals of her young career. In...

Palermo PHOTOS: Juvan upsets Vondrousova, Kontaveit wraps up first-round action

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Unlike Monday's 2 a.m. finish, first-round action completed on Tuesday at the Palermo Ladies Open before midnight. Nineteen-year-old Slovenian qualifier Kaja Juvan recorded the first Top 20 victory of her career, showing great composure to...

Palermo PHOTOS: Vekic wins first main-draw WTA match after coronavirus hiatus, Pliskova closes the day at 2 a.m.

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Main-draw action started today at the Palermo Ladies Open, the first WTA tournament after the five-month coronavirus hiatus, and Donna Vekic became the first winner of the resumed WTA calendar with a confident 6-1...

Sunday’s Palermo PHOTOS: Smiles under masks as players welcome the return of competition

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The 2020 Palermo Ladies Open will make history books as the first WTA tournament since the five-month coronavirus shutdown. Sunday's tennis action on the Italian island was all about the second round of qualifying,...

Tennis returns in Palermo, exclusive photos from Day 1

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Even though the resumption of the WTA calendar is not going absolutely smoothly, as some top players had eventually opted out of traveling and one player tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of the 31st...

Asymptomatic WTA player tests positive for coronavirus at Palermo tournament

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The resumption of the tennis season will definitely have numerous setbacks. After Simona Halep and Johanna Konta disappointed tennis fans with withdrawals from the 31st Palermo Ladies Open, the WTA goes ahead with the...