Sabine Lisicki powers past Venus Williams at Rogers Cup

Sabine Lisicki secured her place in the second round of the Rogers Cup with a comprehensive victory over Venus Williams. “It was in fact typically a wait and hard not to be comfortable up”.

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Bouchard lost 6-0, 5-7, 6-2 in her first-round match Tuesday night on centre court at Aviva Centre.

But typical of Williams, she was able to shift into another gear and stormed through the next four games on her way to leveling the match at one set each.

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Richmond Hill’s Carol Zhao played American Madison Brengle in the afternoon, while Montreal’s Francoise Abanda will play 16th-seeded Andrea Petkovic of Germany after Bouchard’s match.

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“To face her is always going to be hard”, said eighth-seeded Garbiñe Muguruza.

“I didn’t play a match since Wimbledon so I am really happy that I can say I played my best game”.

Shortly after winning, and after a lot of mean abuse on social media, the tennis champ went and got her eyebrows done after the barrage of abuse.

Williams will look to defend her US Open crown at Flushing Meadows when the fourth grand slam of the year begins in New York on August 31.

“The elbow was okay – definitely not ideal, but I’ll see how it recovers tomorrow”, she said.

The other big upset on the day came from the racquet of 34-year old Mirjana Lucic-Baroni of Croatia, who beat 10 seed Karolina Pliskova 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-2.

Former world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus and Jelena Jankovic of Serbia both won their opening matches in straight sets to advance to the second round.