Lisicki romps past Williams

Meanwhile, Serena Williams said she is recovering from an elbow injury that forced her to withdraw from a tournament in Stanford that took place last week.

Williams’ New York magazine profile opens up with a focus on the tennis star working on the HSN network hawking clothes and perhaps not that comfortable with the position she was placed in.

With all four slam titles already in her possession, a successful defence of her U.S. Open crown next month in Flushing Meadows would put Williams in an exclusive club along with Maureen Connolly, Margaret Court and Steffi Graf as the only women who have swept all four in a season.

Williams, playing just her second match since a fourth-round loss to sister Serena at Wimbledon, held serve to open the second set but then double-faulted to gift Lisicki a 2-1 lead. She didn’t know she’d have to wait more than three hours from the scheduled start time to get going.

Serena Williams once again made headlines on Monday after stunning shots of her appeared in the New York magazine.

Canadian Eugenie Bouchard has been eliminated from the Rogers Cup after losing to Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic.

“It’s for sure a step in the right direction”, Bouchard told reporters. I should at least try to get through this and give 200%, and I started playing better. “Nevertheless it’s good as a result of she’s the toughest check and I am going to see the place my recreation is”.

Bouchard lost 6-0, 5-7, 6-2 in her first-round match Tuesday night on centre court at Aviva Centre. ‘I just really thought that was odd.

Serena Williams with her dog “Chip”. “A good vintage red wine, I’d say, getting better with age, I hope”.

Serena Williams is, nearly certainly, the greatest female tennis player of all time. “Everyone only talks about men’s tennis, but to have someone like Serena, it’s really very fortunate so I think she should get even more credit than she does”.

Richmond Hill Ont.’s Carol Zhao was supposed to face American Madison Brengle, but that match was postponed by rain.

Pliskova went down 3-6 7-6(5) 6-2 against Croatia’s Mirjana Lucic-Baroni while Suarez Navarro lost 6-3 6-7(2) 6-4 to Alize Cornet of France.