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Western & Southern Open PREVIEW NOTES: WESTERN & SOUTHERN OPEN CINCINNATI, OH, USA | AUGUST 12 - 18, 2019 | USD $2,944,486 WTA Website: www.wtatennis.com | @WTA | facebook.com/wta Tournament Website: www.wsopen.com | @CincyTennis | www.facebook.com/cincytennis WTA Communications: Adam Lincoln ([email protected]), Estelle LaPorte ([email protected]), Teyva Sammet ([email protected]) SAP Tennis Analytics for Media is an online portal that provides real-time data and insights to media during every WTA event and across all devices. Please email [email protected] to request your individual login to grant access to SAP Tennis Analytics for Media. WESTERN & SOUTHERN OPEN – QUICK FACTS Main draw dates: Monday, August 12 - Sunday, August 18, 2019 Singles Final: Sunday, August 18, 2pm Doubles Final: Saturday, August 17, following 6pm match Venue: Lindner Family Tennis Center Status: WTA Premier 5 event Draw sizes: 56 singles / 28 doubles teams / 32 singles qualifying Surface: Hard (outdoors) Tennis Ball: Penn Championship Regular Duty 2018 Singles Final: Kiki Bertens (NED) d. [1] Simona Halep (ROU) 2-6 7-6(6) 6-2 2018 Doubles Final: [7] L.Hradecka/E.Makarova (CZE/RUS) d. [6] E.Mertens/D.Schuurs (BEL/NED) 6-2 7-5 SINGLES USD $ RANK POINTS Winner 544,500 900 Runner-Up 269,576 585 Semifinalist 133,850 350 Quarterfinalist 62,660 190 Round of 16 30,330 105 Round of 32 15,600 60 Round of 56 8,300 1 MAIN DRAW QUICK-HITS Singles wildcards: Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS), Catherine McNally (USA), Bernada Pera (USA), Alison Riske (USA), Maria Sharapova (RUS) Youngest singles player: Catherine McNally, 17 years old (November 20, 2001) Oldest singles player: Venus Williams, 39 years old (June 17, 1980) Singles withdrawals: CiCi Bellis, Marketa Vondrousova Main draw debutantes: Ekaterina Alexandrova (RUS), Bianca Andreescu (CAN), Sofia Kenin (USA), Catherine McNally (USA), Bernada Pera (USA), Wang Qiang (CHN), Dayana Yastremska (UKR) Follow WTA on Twitter: www.twitter.com/WTA Facebook: www.facebook.com/WTA YouTube: www.youtube.com/WTA 1 PREVIEW NOTES: WESTERN & SOUTHERN OPEN CINCINNATI, OH, USA | AUGUST 12 - 18, 2019 | USD $2,944,486 TOURNAMENT TALKING POINTS Defending champion Kiki Bertens is one of six former winners in the draw, along with Serena Williams (2014-15), Maria Sharapova (2011), Victoria Azarenka (2013), Karolina Pliskova (2016) and Garbiñe Muguruza (2017) After a first-round bye, Bertens will open her defense against either Venus Williams or a qualifier, while No.1 seed Ashleigh Barty faces the winner of Sharapova and Alison Riske Sharapova versus Riske is not the only intriguing first-round encounter, with Friday’s draw also pairing Madison Keys together with Muguruza, and Azarenka against Anett Kontaveit For the second week in a row, the WTA World No.1 ranking will be on the line as less than 300 points separate Barty, Pliskova and Naomi Osaka at the summit Meanwhile, a different milestone is looming on the horizon for Aryna Sabalenka, who will contest her 300th career match when she steps on court for her opening round clash with Petra Martic One To Watch – Dayana Yastremska. Twelve months ago, Yastremska, 19, was ranked outside the Top 100 and with just a handful of tour-level match wins to her name. A lot has changed since then, and, aided by a run to the last 16 in Toronto, the young Ukrainian is well in contention for a place among the seeds at the upcoming US Open CLIJSTERS’S COMEBACK This week marks 10 years since Kim Clijsters embarked on her gloriously successful comeback to professional tennis. The 26-year-old, who gave birth to her first child, Jada, during a two-year hiatus from the sport, upset Marion Bartoli, Patty Schnyder and Svetlana Kuznetsova at the 2009 Western & Southern Open before ultimately running out of steam against World No.1 Dinara Safina in the quarterfinals. Buoyed by her Cincinnati success, later that month, Clijsters, again competing as an unranked wildcard, continued her fairytale return with a dramatic run at the US Open. The popular Belgian accounted for both Serena and Venus Williams en route to the final, before seeing off a teenage Caroline Wozniacki to become the first unseeded woman to be crowned US Open champion, and the first mother to win a Grand Slam singles title since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980. TOP 4 SEEDS’ TOURNAMENT HISTORY* PLAYER TOURNAMENT HISTORY W/L WIN % [1] Ashleigh Barty (AUS) 3r (2): 2017 (l. Wozniacki), 2018 (l. Halep) 4-2 .667 [2] Naomi Osaka (JPN) 1r (1): 2018 (l. Sakkari) 0-1 .000 [3] Karolina Pliskova (CZE) WON (1): 2016 (d. Kerber in F) 10-3 .769 SF (1): 2017 (l. Muguruza) 3r (1): 2015 (l. Jankovic) 2r (1): 2018 (l. Sabalenka) [4] Simona Halep (ROU) R-Up (3): 2015 (l. S.Williams), 2017 (l. Muguruza, 2018 (l. 20-7 .741 Bertens) QF (2): 2013 (l. S.Williams), 2014 (l. Sharapova) 2r (1): 2017 (l. Townsend) 1r (1): 2012 (l. Medina Garrigues) *Main draw matches only Follow WTA on Twitter: www.twitter.com/WTA Facebook: www.facebook.com/WTA YouTube: www.youtube.com/WTA 2 PREVIEW NOTES: WESTERN & SOUTHERN OPEN CINCINNATI, OH, USA | AUGUST 12 - 18, 2019 | USD $2,944,486 PREVIOUS CHAMPIONS & RUNNERS-UP YEAR CHAMPION RUNNER-UP SCORE 2014 [1] Serena Williams (USA) [9] Ana Ivanovic (SRB) 6-4 6-1 2015 [1] Serena Williams (USA) [3] Simona Halep (ROU) 6-3 7-6(5) 2016 [15] Karolina Pliskova (CZE) [2] Angelique Kerber (GER) 6-3 6-1 2017 [4] Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP) [2] Simona Halep (ROU) 6-1 6-0 2018 Kiki Bertens (NED) [1] Simona Halep (ROU) 2-6 7-6(6) 6-2 If highlighted denotes competing in 2019 Cincinnati main draw COUNTRY BREAKDOWN Before the end of qualifying, a total of 26 countries are represented in the main draw, led by the USA with nine players: Australia (1) Ashleigh Barty Belarus (3) Victoria Azarenka, Aryna Sabalenka, Aliaksandra Sasnovich Belgium (1) Elise Mertens Canada (1) Bianca Andreescu China (2) Wang Qiang, Zheng Saisai Chinese Taipei (1) Hsieh Su-Wei Croatia (2) Petra Martic, Donna Vekic Czech Republic (3) Petra Kvitova, Karolina Pliskova, Katerina Siniakova Denmark (1) Caroline Wozniacki Estonia (1) Anett Kontaveit France (1) Caroline Garcia Germany (2) Julia Goerges, Angelique Kerber Great Britain (1) Johanna Konta Greece (1) Maria Sakkari Italy (1) Camila Giorgi Japan (1) Naomi Osaka Kazakhstan (1) Yulia Putintseva Latvia (2) Jelena Ostapenko, Anastasija Sevastova Netherlands (1) Kiki Bertens Romania (1) Simona Halep Russia (4) Ekaterina Alexandrova, Daria Kasatkina, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Maria Sharapova Slovakia (1) Viktoria Kuzmova Spain (2) Garbiñe Muguruza, Carla Suárez Navarro Switzerland (1) Belinda Bencic Ukraine (3) Elina Svitolina, Lesia Tsurenko, Dayana Yastremska United States (9) Amanda Anisimova, Sofia Kenin, Madison Keys, Catherine McNally, Bernada Pera, Alison Riske, Sloane Stephens, Serena Williams, Venus Williams Follow WTA on Twitter: www.twitter.com/WTA Facebook: www.facebook.com/WTA YouTube: www.youtube.com/WTA 3.
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