Photos from Cincinnati: Muguruza, Halep reach the finals, the battle for the No.1 ranking is on
Fourth seed Garbine Muguruza and second seed Simona Halep are through to the 2017 Western & Southern Open finals, with the Romanian having a chance to overtake Karolina Pliskova at the top of the WTA...
Kerber, Pliskova move into Western & Southern Open finals
The Western & Southern Open final will be the seventh career meeting between Angelique Kerber and Karolina Pliskova, who both eliminated their semifinal opponents in straight sets on Saturday.
The first to make the title match...
Cincinnati: Lucie Safarova scores first win against Venus Williams
After Women's Tennis Blog's successful photo coverage of Rogers Cup with photographer Jimmie48, I am very pleased to remind you that we are having a photographer on site at the Western & Southern Open as...
Even one-legged Venus would play Rio, Serena surprised she hasn’t won Cincy
Venus and Serena Williams both won their Tuesday's matches at the Western and Southern Open - Venus battling past the London Olympic singles semifinalist Maria Kirilenko 6-3 6-7(5) 6-2 in the first round and Serena,...
Sharapova advances to Cincinnati quarters, other Grand Slam champions lose
Last week it was Serena Williams who won when five other Grand Slam champions lost in Toronto, and on Thursday in Cincinnati Maria Sharapova was sole such winner. To reach the quarterfinals Sharapova defeated US...
Ana Ivanovic reaches Cincinnati semifinals, credits female fitness coach
Ana Ivanovic has reached her third semifinal of the year with a comfortable 6-1 6-3 victory over world No.114 Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan at the Western & Southern Financial Group Women’s Open in Cincinnati.
The...
Ana Ivanovic upsets Victoria Azarenka in Cincinnati
Ana Ivanovic gave us a nice surprise by beating ninth seed Victoria Azarenka 2-6 7-6(6) 6-2 in the first round of the Western and Southern Financial Group Women’s Open in Cincinnati.
The world No.65 Ivanovic,...
Bojana Jovanovski upsets Aravane Rezai in Cincinnati
Serbian qualifier Bojana Jovanovski made a big upset in the first round of the Western and Southern Financial Group Women’s Open by defeating seed No.14 Aravane Rezai, the winner of two claycourt tournaments this...
Flavia Pennetta to crack Top 10, expects Italy to go crazy about it
Flavia Pennetta will enter the Top 10 for the first time when the new Sony Ericsson WTA Tour rankings are released on Monday, and will become the first Italian tennis player to achieve the...
Chakvetadze wins Cincinnati title, heads to Stanford as top seed
On Sunday, Anna Chakvetadze won the Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open in Cincinnati, Ohio, with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Akiko Morigami. The Russian needed less than an hour to beat Morigami,...
