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Vinci added sarcastically. Williams got in an indecipherable last word.

However, Bencic – who had earlier accounted for Australian Samantha Stosur – immediately broke back and set up a final on Sunday against seventh-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland.

The Chan sisters then fought back to claim the super tiebreak 10-8 against their Ukrainian-Chinese opponents in 1 hour, 11 minutes, the second straight match in which they were taken to the brink after comprehensively winning the first set. Cibulkova beat Ivanovic in the first...

Halep said she her muscle was sore and then the pain spread to her knee.

Sabine Lisicki, the 2013 Wimbledon finalist, slumped to a 6-1 1-6 7-6 (7/3) defeat to Belinda Bencic, with the Swiss sealing victory after exactly two hours. Bencic had already knocked off Caroline Wozniacki and Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard this week and wanted her German...

Halep, meanwhile, booked her quarter-final spot by fighting off a challenge from 13th-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany.

Karolina Plistova of the Czech Republic staved off a second-set rally by unseeded Varvara Lepchenko Saturday for a 6-2, 7-5 victory that put her in the final of the Bank of the West Classic.

That unique scheduling – which does not happen at the other three grand slams – meant that Wozniacki played her fourth round against Muguruza on Court No 2.

Eugenie Bouchard’s fall from grace continued with a first-round defeat by China’s Duan Yingying at Wimbledon on Tuesday as her hopes of repeating last year’s run to the final evaporated. The first and last point surrendered by Kvitova on serve, and a double...

She was favoring an injury and she was – oh, my! – wearing a black sports bra deemed illegal by the Wimbledon powers. But it was easy to see the grass at Wimbledon didn’t favor her this year.