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SEVILLE, Spain: Italy and Canada booked their tickets to the semifinals of the Billie Jean King Cup on Thursday with 3-0 wins over Germany and Poland respectively as defending champions Switzerland crashed out.
Venus Williams scored a straight sets upset of 16th seed Veroninka Kudermetova at the ATP/WTA Cincinnati Open on Monday, bagging her first win over a top 20 player in four years. The 43-year-old American veteran, who was granted a wild card into this week's tournament, rallied superbly to polish off Kudermetova 6-4, 7-5. The seven-time Grand Slam singles champion, whose career has spanned four different decades, showed great heart to recover from 4-1 down in the opening set before overturning a 5-1 deficit in the second to seal victory.
MASON, Ohio — Venus Williams beat a top-20 player for the first time in four years, rallying from big deficits in both sets to knock off 16th-ranked Veronika Kudermetova 6-4, 7-5 in the first round of the Western & Southern Open on Monday.
:Venus Williams upset 16th-ranked Veronika Kudermetova 6-4 7-5 at the Cincinnati Open on Monday, as her unseeded American compatriot Sloane Stephens overcame a sluggish start to beat Italy's Elisabetta Cocciaretto 7-5 6-2.
Unseeded American Sloane Stephens overcame a sluggish start to the Cincinnati Open with a 7-5 6-2 victory over Italy's Elisabetta Cocciaretto on Monday (Aug 14) to set up a second-round showdown with French defending champion Caroline Garcia.
Ons Jabeur stormed into the third round of Wimbledon with a 6-1 6-1 thrashing of Zhouxuan Bai that took just 45 minutes. The Tunisian is looking to go one step better than her runner-up finish at the All England Club last year, and faces Bianca Andreescu next. Ad Jabeur, seeded sixth at SW19, was untroubled in her victory on Court No.1, earning five breaks and staying solid on serve with six aces and 87% of first serve points won.
LONDON: American fourth seed Jessica Pegula overcame a second-set wobble to dispatch Cristina Bucsa, ranked 74 places below her, 6-1 6-4 on her way to the third round at Wimbledon on Thursday (Jul 6).
BAD HOMBURG, Germany: Iga Swiatek overcame a slow start before powering her way into the second round of the Bad Homburg Open with a 5-7, 6-2, 6-0 win over grasscourt specialist Tatjana Maria on Monday.