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Serena Williams To Face Danka Kovinic In US Open Start As Retirement Looms

Serena Williams will face Danka Kovinic of Montenegro in her first round match at the US Open following the draw for the tournament made on Thursday. Williams, the 23-time Grand Slam title winner who has hinted she will make the event her farewell tournament, is in the same quarter of the draw as second seed Anett Kontaveit of Estonia. The 40-year-old American superstar, whose first Grand Slam title came at the 1999 US Open, would meet Kontaveit in the second round if both win their opening matches at the year's final Grand Slam event, which begins Monday.

Serena to face Kovinic in US Open start as retirement looms

Serena Williams will face Danka Kovinic of Montenegro in her first round match at the US Open following the draw for the tournament made on Thursday.

World tennis stars raise over $1 mln for charitable aid for Ukraine

On August 24, on the Independence Day of Ukraine and on the anniversary of the sixth month of Russia's full-scale invasion with the participation of Belarus on the territory of Ukraine, $1.2 million was raised at a charity tennis event in New York, the website btu.og.ua said.

US Open's 'Tennis Plays for Peace' raises $1.2 million for Ukraine relief

By CNN Sport staff

Borna Ćorić and Caroline Garcia both make history with title wins at the Cincinnati Masters

By Matias Grez, CNN

Cincinnati champion Caroline Garcia returns to WTA top 20

The 28-year-old, who had slipped to 79th in the standings in May, is back in the top 20 for the first time since March 2019. Garcia beat Kvitova 6-2, 6-4 in Sunday's final to win her first WTA 1000 title since 2017. Iga Swiatek retained her commanding lead as world number one despite losing to Madison Keys in the Cincinnati last 16.

Caroline Garcia extends strong run to re-enter top-20 ranking

Garcia, 28, was ranked at a career-high fourth in 2018 but slipped down the ladder due to confusion over her approach of play and injury problems. Since coming back from a foot injury in May, when she was 79th in the rankings, Garcia has won a WTA 1000 title on hardcourt, won a grasscourt event in Bad Homburg and the Warsaw tournament on clay. "We made it clear which way I have to play, which direction I have to go," Garcia, who climbed up to world number 17th on Monday, said, referring to her new coach Bertrand Perret and her team.

Assertive Garcia extends strong run to re-enter top-20 ranking

With clarity of thought and renewed trust in an attacking style of play, France's Caroline Garcia clinched her third title of the season on Sunday at the Cincinnati Open and climbed back to the top-20 of the women's world rankings.

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Serena Williams To Face Danka Kovinic In US Open Start As Retirement Looms

Serena to face Kovinic in US Open start as retirement looms

World tennis stars raise over $1 mln for charitable aid for Ukraine

US Open's 'Tennis Plays for Peace' raises $1.2 million for Ukraine relief

Borna Ćorić and Caroline Garcia both make history with title wins at the Cincinnati Masters

Cincinnati champion Caroline Garcia returns to WTA top 20

Caroline Garcia extends strong run to re-enter top-20 ranking

Assertive Garcia extends strong run to re-enter top-20 ranking