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MATCH NOTES: MUBADALA SILICON VALLEY CLASSIC SAN JOSE, USA | JULY 30 – AUG 5, 2018 | USD $733,900 PREMIER

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MUBADALA SILICON VALLEY CLASSIC – SEMIFINALS (SATURDAY)

Stadium [4] ELISE MERTENS (BEL #15) vs. [5] MIHAELA BUZARNESCU (ROU #24)

Mertens leads 3-0 Mertens won previous meeting, in this year’s Hobart final… Both players can move to new career-high

rankings by reaching the final… Buzarnescu bidding for fifth career Top 20 win

DANIELLE COLLINS (USA #42) vs. MARIA SAKKARI (GRE #49) First meeting

Both players attempting to reach their first WTA final… Collins has risen over 100 places in the rankings in the past 12 months… QF win over Williams was Sakkari’s fifth against a Top 20 player

A LOOK AT THE SEMIFINALISTS

*Includes current tournament / ^Does not include current tournament

POTENTIAL FINAL HEAD-TO-HEADS

PLAYER RANK AGE NAT SAN JOSE

(MD) W/L* YTD

W/L* CAREER

W/L*

YTD PRIZE MONEY$^

CAREER PRIZE $^

CAREER TITLES

[4] Elise Mertens 15 22 BEL 2-0 34-12 243-123 1,508,500 2,304,740 4 [5] Mihaela Buzarnescu 24 30 ROU 3-0 36-20 401-208 844,079 1,220,896 0 Danielle Collins 42 24 USA 3-0 31-13 111-61 639,126 803,852 0 Maria Sakkari 49 23 GRE 3-0 18-16 270-177 512,523 1,452,151 0

MERTENS BUZARNESCU

COLLINS Mertens leads 1-0 First meeting

SAKKARI Mertens leads 3-2 First meeting


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SEMIFINAL RECORDS

PLAYER BEST 2018 RESULT BEST SAN JOSE

RESULT LAST FINAL REACHED (final result)

CAREER SF W/L

CAREER SF W/L

[4] Elise Mertens WON (3): Hobart, Lugano, Rabat SF (1): 2018 2018 Rabat (WON) 5-4 4-1

[5] Mihaela Buzarnescu R-Up (2): Hobart, Prague SF (1): 2018 2018 Prague (R-Up) 2-4 0-2

Danielle Collins SF (2): Miami, San Jose SF (1): 2018 N/A 0-1 -

Maria Sakkari SF (2): Istanbul, San Jose SF (1): 2018 N/A 0-2 -

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BY THE NUMBERS

154 Exactly 12 months ago, Danielle Collins was ranked No.154

89 Elise Mertens has been broken only twice so far, winning 89.5% of her service games – her 2018 average is 70.5%

66 Maria Sakkari has won 66.7% of her return games this

week – her season average is 32.1% - breaking serve 18 times in three matches

34 By reaching the final, Mihaela Buzarnescu will notch up her

34th tour-level victory of 2018. Prior to this season, her career total number of wins at this level stood at three

15 The progress of Collins ensures that for an eighth straight

year the United States has at least one semifinal representative at the tournament

4 All four semifinalists are making their tournament debut

0 Mertens and Sakkari are both yet to drop a set. The last

player to win this title without dropping a set was Serena Williams in 2012

ELSEWHERE ON TOUR Last night’s rain means that it will be a bumper order of play at the Citi Open on Saturday, with three of the four singles quarterfinals still to be completed. The only player already through to the last four is Andrea Petkovic, who saved three match points to defeat Belinda Bencic 6-3 2-6 7-6(8). Bidding to join her are Yulia Putintseva, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Zheng Saisai, Allie Kiick, Magda Linette and Donna Vekic.

RANKING PROJECTIONS By reaching the final Elise Mertens can overtake Venus Williams and move to a career-high of No.14. That is the highest she can climb this week. Mihaela Buzarnescu is projected to maintain her career-high ranking of No.24 by reaching the semifinals. She can move to No.21 with a runner-up finish and No.20 by lifting the title. Her run this week has guaranteed Danielle Collins a new career-best ranking of No.35. Although she could go to No.30 with a final appearance and No.26 with the title. Maria Sakkari is already projected to return to the Top 40, but could reach the Top 35 by making the final and the Top 30 for the first time with the title.

SAN JOSE - USA, CA | Jul 30 - Aug 05, 2018 | $799,000 | PREMIER

MATCH NOTES

[4] ELISE MERTENS (BEL #15) vs. [5] MIHAELA BUZARNESCU (ROU #24)

Head to Head: ELISE MERTENS leads 3-0

2018 HARD O F ELISE MERTENS 152 mins6-1 4-6 6-3 HOBART

2015 CLAY O R16 ELISE MERTENS N/A6-3 6-2 ITF/KOKSIJDE

2015 CLAY O QF ELISE MERTENS N/A2-6 6-4 6-3 ITF/SANTA MARGHERITA DIPULA 5

ELISE MERTENS

15

11

17-11-1995 (22)

$1,508,500

$2,304,740

3 / 4

3 / 5

34-12 / 69-36

8-3 / 22-11

6-5 / 13-13

MIHAELA BUZARNESCU

24

18

04-05-1988 (30)

$844,079

$1,220,896

0 / 0

1 / 1

3-0

33-19 / 36-22

11-7 / 13-7

8-5 / 11-8

WTA RANKING

PORSCHE RACE TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD

DATE OF BIRTH (AGE)

YTD PRIZE MONEY

CAREER PRIZE MONEY

SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER)

DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER)

SAN JOSE W-L (MD) *

YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) *

YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) *

YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) *

YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) *

YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) *

2-0

10-7 / 13-10 14-6 / 32-18

4-0 / 5-0 2-2 / 2-2

1-3 / 2-6 3-5 / 3-6

1-5 / 4-16 4-8 / 4-9

YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD & Q) *


YTD / CAREER TOP 5 W-L (MD & Q) * 1-3 / 1-4 2-1 / 2-2

* Updated entering 2018 San Jose SF

[4] ELISE MERTENS (BEL #15)

QF: d. JOHANNA KONTA (GBR #48) 7-6(4),6-3 (1h33)

R16: d. ASHLEY KRATZER (USA #251) 6-2,6-0 (1h02)

R32: BYE

ROAD TO THE SEMIFINALS

vs.

[5] MIHAELA BUZARNESCU (ROU #24)

QF: d. AJLA TOMLJANOVIC (CRO #65) 6-1,7-5 (1h25)

R16: d. AMANDA ANISIMOVA (USA #198) 7-5,2-6,6-1 (1h46)

R32: d. SACHIA VICKERY (USA #73) 6-3,4-6,6-3 (1h58)

Total games: 36

Won/lost: 25-11

Sets won/lost: 4-0

Total time on court: 2h35

Average time on court: 1h18

Average rank of opponent: 150

Total games: 74

Won/lost: 44-30

Sets won/lost: 6-2




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MERTENS:

San Jose

Making debut appearance at the Bay Area event, having never previously contested Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic’s

predecessor in Stanford

Contesting 2018 San Jose at a career-high ranking of No.15, first posted week after Roland Garros (June 11, 2018).

Last year began North American hardcourt swing at No.47

Will move to a career-high No.14 by reaching the final

Seeded No.4 this week – her highest seeding at a WTA Premier-level tournament (previous best was No.7 at 2018

Birmingham

After 1r bye, defeated No.251 Kratzer in 2r and Konta in QF. These were her 33rd and 34th wins of 2018 – only

Kerber (39), Kvitova (38) and Halep (37) own more wins this season (none of whom are playing an event this week).

In contrast, prior to this season had 35 tour-level match wins across entire career

Faces Buzarnescu today – won all three of their previous meetings, most recently to successfully defend her Hobart

title this January

However, has lost other three matches with Romanians this year in straight sets, against Cirstea at Doha and Halep

at Madrid and Roland Garros

Bidding to reach sixth career final and first at a Premier-level tournament. Win-loss record in career SF stands at 5-4

Season

Reached 3r at Wimbledon (l. Cibulkova) for her career-best result at the All England Club

Also reached 3r at Eastbourne (l. eventual R-Up Sabalenka) and fell in 2r at ‘s-Hertogenbosch (l. Lottner) and 1r at

Birmingham (l. Jakupovic)

In doubles, won fifth career title at ‘s-Hertogenbosch and finishing R-Up at Birmingham (both w/Schuurs)

Started clay court season with back-to-back titles at Lugano (d. Sabalenka in F) and Rabat (d. Tomljanovic in F). One

of six players to win multiple titles on tour so far this year (3), along with Kvitova (5), Svitolina (3), Halep (2), Kerber

(2) and Wozniacki (2)

Fell to World No.1 Halep at other two clay court events, in R16 at Roland Garros and 2r at Madrid. Finished clay

swing with tour’s best record on the surface – 16-2 win-loss, edging Halep’s 16-3 record

Also won doubles title at Lugano (w/Flipkens, d. Lapko/Sabalenka in F)

Won both rubbers (d. Errani and Paolini) to help Belgium to 4-0 victory in its World Group I play-off against Italy

Made 2r exit at Indian Wells (after 1r bye, l. Q.Wang) and reached 3r at Miami (l. Konta)

Fell 2r in Doha (l. Cirstea), followed by a 1r exit in Dubai (l. Bellis)

Went 1-1 in Fed Cup World Group play for Belgium vs. France (d. Parmentier, l. Mladenovic). France won tie 3-2

Achieved Grand Slam breakthrough at Australian Open; making debut at event, advanced to first SF at a major – d.

No.23 Gavrilova in 2r and No.4 Svitolina in QF – first win over a Top 5 opponent – en route before falling to No.2

seed and eventual champion Wozniacki (ending 10-match win streak)

With Australian Open results, made Top 20 debut at No.20 (week of January 29, 2018)

Passed $1 million in career prize money with 3r victory over Cornet at Australian Open

Enjoyed successful title defense at 2018 Hobart (d. Buzarnescu in F), having won her maiden title there in 2017.

Completed sweep of titles by teaming up with Schuurs to defeat L.Kichenok/Ninomiya in doubles final

Began 2018 season at Hopman Cup exhibition in Perth, going 2-1 in singles play (d. Bouchard and Gavrilova, l.

Kerber) and 2-1 in doubles (w/Goffin)

Career

Finished 2017 season at No.35, up from No.120 in 2016 – first Top 50 and Top 100 year-end finish in career

2017 season highlighted by first career singles title at Hobart (as a qualifier, d. Niculescu in F) – one of five qualifiers

to win a singles title in 2017

Also in 2017, advanced to final at Istanbul (l. Svitolina) and made SF runs at Bastad (l. Wozniacki), New Haven (l.

Cibulkova) and Luxembourg (l. Puig)

Won second career doubles title at 2017 Guangzhou (w/Schuurs) and reached finals at 2017 Bucharest (w/Schuurs)

and Istanbul (w/Melichar)

Registered first Top 10 win of career over No.10 Cibulkova in 1r at 2017 Beijing

Made WTA singles main draw debut at 2016 ‘s-Hertogenbosch – as qualifier, advanced to QF (l. Mladenovic)

In 2016 also reached 2r on grass at Mallorca (as qualifier, d. Schiavone in 1r, l. Jankovic) and fell in qualifying on nine

occasions: Auckland, Australian Open, St Petersburg, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, Gstaad, Bastad, Linz and

Luxembourg

Won first WTA title of any kind in doubles at 2016 Auckland (w/Mestach). Now has five doubles titles – also 2017

Guangzhou (w/Schuurs), 2018 Hobart (w/Schuurs), 2018 Lugano (w/Flipkens) and 2018 ‘s-Hertogenbosch

(w/Schuurs)

Played first tour-level event of career at 2015 Antwerp (fell in qualifying)

Winner of 11 singles titles and 14 doubles titles on ITF Circuit

Played first events of career on ITF Circuit in Belgium in 2010

Grand Slam History

Advanced to first Grand Slam SF of career at 2018 Australian Open (l. eventual champion Wozniacki)

Became first Belgian to reach a Grand Slam SF since Flipkens at 2013 Wimbledon; also the first Belgian to reach QF

at Australian Open since 2012 (Kim Clijsters, SF)

In 2018, also achieved best result at Roland Garros, with run to R16 (l eventual champion Halep) and Wimbledon,

where she reached 3r (l. Cibulkova)

Fell 1r at 2017 US Open (l. eventual R-Up Keys) and 2016 US Open (as qualifier, l. Muguruza in 3s)

Prior to making Grand Slam main draw debut at 2016 US Open, fell in qualifying at five majors: 2015 Wimbledon,

2015 US Open, 2016 Australian Open, 2016 Roland Garros and 2016 Wimbledon

Other Information

Currently coached by Dieter Kindlmann

Earlier coaching history includes Belgian federation until early teens, as well as a year at the Mouratoglou Academy

in Paris

Mother Liliane, teaches languages and history and father, Guido, makes furniture for churches. Was introduced to

tennis by her sister Lauren, who is six years older (now airline pilot with KLM)

Speaks Dutch/Flemish, French and English

Was home schooled

BUZARNESCU:

San Jose

Contesting a Bay Area event for the first time in her career, having never previously played the Mubadala Silicon Valley

Classic’s predecessor in Stanford

In parallel week in 2017, played ITF event at $25k Woking-GBR, ranked No.142 – in contrast, contesting week of 2018

San Jose at a career-high ranking of No.24 (first set July 23, 2018)

Can rise to No.21 by reaching the final and is projected to move to No.20 by lifting the title

Scored three-set wins over Vickery in 1r and Anisimova in 2r – is now 5-2 vs. women from USA in 2018 at tour-level;

also defeated Riske (Hobart), King (Roland Garros) and Falconi (Nottingham), and lost to Brady (Indian Wells) and Keys

(Roland Garros)

Has now contested 18 three-set matches this season; Siniakova (also 18) is the only other player on tour to have

played as many

Win over Anisimova was also 400th of her career (including ITF Circuit)

Saw off Tomljanovic in QF to record 33rd tour-level main draw win this season, the fifth-most in 2018. Prior to 2018,

had three WTA wins to her name

Faces No.15 Mertens in SF today; owns four Top 20 career wins, against No.6 Ostapenko (2018 Doha), No.4

Svitolina (2018 Roland Garros), No.5 Svitolina (2018 Birmingham) and No.20 Bertens (2018 Eastbourne)

Has advanced to SF at a WTA tournament for the sixth time in 2018. Also reached this stage at Hobart – R-Up,

Prague – R-Up, Strasbourg – SF, Birmingham – SF and Bucharest – SF

Bidding to reach her third career WTA final and first at a Premier-level event

Seeded No.5 this week – third time seeded at Premier level or above (also No.15 at Charleston, No.31 at Roland

Garros and No.28 Wimbledon)

Making her WTA-leading 21st main draw appearance this week. To date, there have been 24 possible

opportunities to compete on the tour-calendar

No.2 seed in doubles draw w/Watson – play L.Kichenok/N.Kichenok in SF today

Season

Coming off SF showing at home tournament in Bucharest (l. eventual R-Up Martic)

Made Wimbledon main draw debut earlier in July, reaching 3r (l. Ka.Pliskova). Was second time reaching 3r at a

Grand Slam, having progressed to R16 at Roland Garros this year. 2018 Wimbledon was just the fourth grass

court event of her career at tour-level

Made R16 showing at Eastbourne (l. Ostapenko); win over No.20 Bertens in 2r marked fourth career win over a

Top 20 player (4-9 career record), with previous wins all coming earlier this year over No.6 Ostapenko (Doha),

No.4 Svitolina (Roland Garros) and No.5 Svitolina (Birmingham)

Made SF run at Birmingham (l. eventual champion Kvitova) – her first QF and SF at WTA Premier-level

Reached QF at Nottingham (l. Osaka) in what was her first-ever WTA-level tournament on grass

Reached third and fourth WTA doubles finals of the season (and career) at Nottingham (w/Watson, l.

Rosolska/Spears in F) and Eastbourne (w/Begu, l. Dabrowski/Xu in F). Now has 1-3 record in doubles finals

Enjoyed run to R16 at Roland Garros, her best result at a major (l. Keys). Produced one of biggest upsets at this

year’s Roland Garros by defeating World No.4 Svitolina in straight sets in 3r

Finished with an 11-7 record on clay in 2018, highlighted by R-Up finish at Prague (l. Kvitova) and SF at

Strasbourg (l. eventual R-Up Cibulkova)

Won first career doubles title at Strasbourg (w/Olaru, d. N.Kichenok/An.Rodionova in F)

Suffered 1r defeats at both Madrid (l. Sharapova) and Rome (l. Zhang)

Reached second WTA singles final of career at Prague (l. Kvitova in 3s); rose to then-career-high ranking of

No.32 following the tournament (May 7, 2018). Also doubles R-Up in Czech capital (w/Marozava, l.

Melichar/Peschke)

Part of Romania team that beat Switzerland 3-1 reach World Group for the second time in four years (l. dead

doubles rubber w/Cirstea against Golubic/Teichmann)

Other clay court results included 2r run in Charleston (l. Errani) and 1r exit at Lugano (l. Sabalenka)

Fell 1r back-to-back at Indian Wells (l. Brady) and Miami (l. Flipkens) after a 2r showing at Budapest (l. eventual

champion Van Uytvanck)

Reached R16 at Doha (l. Goerges). Scored career first Top 10 win over No.6 Ostapenko in 2r

Advanced to SF at $100k ITF/Midland, MI-USA (l. Brengle) after 1r exit at Australian Open (l. eventual champion

Wozniacki)

Reached first career WTA singles final at Hobart (l. Mertens in 3s), having not dropped a set en route to the final

Opened 2018 season at Shenzhen, falling 1r to Sharapova

Career

Enjoyed breakthrough year in 2017, achieving first Top 100 season of career at No.72. Previous best year-end

finish was in 2011 (No.155)

Reached first tour-level SF of career at 2017 Linz (having come through qualifying), defeating No.35 Kontaveit

en route (l. eventual champion Strycova)

Broke into Top 100 after Linz run (October 16, 2017); at 29 was the oldest Top 100 debutante since 33-year-old

Obziler on February 19, 2007 at No.96

Made Grand Slam and WTA main draw debut at 2017 US Open as a qualifier (l. Wozniacki in 1r). Prior to US

Open breakthrough had made 16 unsuccessful attempts to qualify for tour-level tournaments, including eight

Grand Slams, dating back to 2007 Fès

Only other main draw appearance in 2017 resulted in 1r exit at Luxembourg

Ascent up the rankings helped by strong showings on ITF Circuit in 2017, picking up seven titles, including

$100k ITF/Poitiers-FRA and $80k ITF/Biarritz-FRA

Posted a 9-11 win-loss record in 2016, with best result a QF run at $50k ITF/Hodmezovasarhely-HUN. Finished

year ranked No.351 (down from No.260 in 2015)

In 2015, won 48 matches, four ITF Circuit titles and rose over 600 places in the rankings, finishing at No.260

Made WTA qualifying debut at 2007 Fès

Has won 22 singles and 34 doubles titles on ITF Circuit

Made professional debut at 2004 $10k ITF/Bucharest-ROU (l. Savu in 1r)

Grand Slam History

2018 Wimbledon marked fourth main draw appearance at a Grand Slam

Has been seeded twice at a Grand Slam in her career – was No.31 seed at 2018 Roland Garros, and No.29 seed

at 2018 Wimbledon

Advanced to R16 at 2018 Roland Garros (l. Keys) for her best result at a major to date; also made 3r at 2018

Wimbledon (l. Ka.Pliskova)

Fell 1r on Grand Slam main draw debut at 2017 US Open (as qualifier, l. No.5 seed Wozniacki) and 2018

Australian Open (l. No.2 seed and eventual champion Wozniacki)

Reached QF stage in doubles at 2018 Roland Garros (w/Bara, l. H.Chan/Z.Yang)

Before making main draw debut, had fallen eight times in Grand Slam qualifying previously, at Australian Open

(2012, 2017) Roland Garros (2012), Wimbledon (2012, 2017) and US Open (2011, 2012, 2015)

Other Information

Coached by Fratila Septimiu and father, Mihai, a former Romanian intercollegiate tennis player; mother is

Marcela (pharmacist). Introduced to tennis at age 4 by parents

Has been part of the Romanian national tennis federation since age 12

Dream doubles partners are childhood idol Pete Sampras and all-time favorite player Serena Williams

Friends on tour include regular doubles partner Heather Watson, other Romanians and Caroline Wozniacki

Favorite foods are pizza and carbonara pasta

Gained PhD in sports science from UNEFS in Bucharest


MATCH NOTES

DANIELLE COLLINS (USA #42) vs. MARIA SAKKARI (GRE #49)

Head to Head: First meeting

DANIELLE COLLINS

42

29

13-12-1993 (24)

$639,126

$803,852

0 / 0

0 / 0

16-10 / 16-13

8-1 / 8-2

2-3 / 3-3

MARIA SAKKARI

49

71

25-07-1995 (23)

$512,523

$1,452,151

0 / 0

0 / 0

3-0

16-14 / 37-43

2-6 / 10-18

5-1 / 12-6

WTA RANKING


DATE OF BIRTH (AGE)

YTD PRIZE MONEY

CAREER PRIZE MONEY



SAN JOSE W-L (MD) *






3-0

9-7 / 20-24 12-3 / 12-6

1-1 / 1-1 1-1 / 2-3

1-2 / 1-3 1-0 / 2-4

3-5 / 3-6 4-5 / 5-12




* Updated entering 2018 San Jose SF

DANIELLE COLLINS (USA #42)

QF: d. VICTORIA AZARENKA (BLR #108) 6-7(4),3-0 Ret. – back problem (1h36)

R16: d. VERA LAPKO (BLR #69) 6-1,3-6,6-1 (1h52)

R32: d. DANIELLE LAO (USA #234) 7-6(2),6-3 (1h47)

ROAD TO THE SEMIFINALS

vs.

MARIA SAKKARI (GRE #49)

QF: d. [3] VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #14) 6-4,7-6(2) (1h43)

R16: d. [8] TIMEA BABOS (HUN #38) 6-0,6-1 (0h55)

R32: d. CHRISTINA MCHALE (USA #97) 6-2,6-2 (1h19)

Total games: 61

Won/lost: 37-24

Sets won/lost: 5-2




Total games: 52

Won/lost: 37-15

Sets won/lost: 6-0





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COLLINS:

San Jose



Currently ranked No.42. By comparison, this time last year was No.154

Is projected to move to a career-high No.35 by reaching the SF. Will rise to No.30 with R-Up finish and can move to

No.26 if she wins the title

Playing back on home soil after posting an impressive 17-4 record in the States earlier this season, including a title at

WTA 125k series event at Newport Beach and a SF run at Miami

Overcame qualifier Lao in 1r, 19-year-old Lapko in 2r and Azarenka (via ret. – back) to increase her tour level main

draw win tally to 16. Prior to 2018 Indian Wells, had played only three tour-level matches (losing all three)

Victory over Lapko improved her record against teenagers this year to 5-0 (Zhuk and Bouzkova at WTA 125k Newport

Beach, Zhuk at Indian Wells and Swan at Eastbourne)

Faces No.49 Sakkari today for the first time in her career. Owns six Top 50 wins, all scored in 2018: No.14 Keys (Indian

Wells), No.37 Begu, No.16 Vandeweghe and No.8 V.Williams (all Miami), No.43 Cirstea (Rome) and No.26 Suárez

Navarro (Eastbourne)

This is her second SF appearance at WTA level – also 2018 Miami (l. Ostapenko)

Only US players to reach SF from 12 that begun the singles main draw – 2010 was the last time there was no American

representative in the last four at the tournament

Season

Made 1r exit at Wimbledon (l. Mertens)

In other grass court outings, reached R16 at Eastbourne (l. Kerber) and fell 1r at Mallorca (l. Peterson); postedcareer-high ranking of No.39 on June 11, 2018

On clay, posted 2r showings at Rome (as qualifier, l. Kasatkina) and Strasbourg (l. Q.Wang) and fell 1r at Madrid (asqualifier, l. Sasnovich) and Roland Garros (l. Wozniacki)

Made QF at Monterrey (l. Bogdan)

Became first qualifier to reach Miami SF (l. Ostapenko), scoring first Top 10 win over V.Williams en route. EarnedUSD$327,965 by reaching the last four at Key Biscayne, more than doubling her career earnings at the time

Posted first tour-level wins during R16 run at Indian Wells (l. Suárez Navarro), where she scored her first Top 50 winover No.15 Keys in 2r

Made QF run at WTA 125k Series event at Indian Wells (l. eventual champion Errani). At the time, defeat of No.56Linette in 2r was best win by-rank of career, and second Top 100 (after d. No.98 Voegele 2016 New Haven qualifying)

Opened season by falling in qualifying at Australian Open, losing to Allertova in final round

Won WTA 125k Series event at Newport Beach in January (d. Tomljanovic in SF, d. Zhuk in F)

Also this season contested $100k ITF/Midland,MI-USA (l. Abanda in 1r)

Career

Ended 2017 at No.167, in what was first season as a professional

Contested one tour-level main draw last season, at Indian Wells (as WC, l. Puig in 1r). Fell in qualifying five times, at Monterrey, Wimbledon, US Open, Tokyo [Japan Open] and Tokyo [PPO]

Closed out 2017 season at WTA 125K Series event in Honolulu (l. Vickery in 1r)

Won two singles titles on ITF Circuit in 2017, at $25k ITF/Bethany Beach, DE-USA and $25k ITF/Norman, OK-USA, taking total tally to four

Enjoyed illustrious college career at University of Virginia, claiming two NCAA singles titles in three seasons; became only the seventh woman to win two NCAA singles titles

Finished 2016 strongly, winning $50k ITF/Stillwater-USA, reaching final at $50k ITF/Macon-USA and 2r at WTA 125K Series in Honolulu

Made WTA qualifying debut at 2014 New Haven (l. Hsieh)

Graduated in 2016 as the top-ranked collegiate player in the country with a degree in media studies

Grand Slam History

Gained first Grand Slam main draw acceptance at 2018 Roland Garros (l. Wozniacki in 1r)

Also fell 1r at 2018 Wimbledon (l. Mertens) and US Open twice, entering her home slam on a wild card in 2014 (l. Halep in 1r) and 2016 (l. Rodina in 1r)

Fell in qualifying at Australian Open in 2018

Other Information

Named 2016 Honda Sport Award winner for tennis and candidate for Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year

Introduced to tennis by father aged three

Going to the beach, fishing and running

Coached by Chip Brooks

SAKKARI:

San Jose

Contesting the Bay Area event for the first time in her career, having never previously played the Mubadala Silicon

Valley Classic’s predecessor in Stanford

1r win over McHale here on Monday snapped four-match losing streak – began with 3r loss at Roland Garros (l.

Kasatkina) and stretched to Birmingham (Goerges), Eastbourne (Kuznetsova) and Wimbledon (l. Kenin)

Saw off Babos in under an hour in 2r and then upset No.14 Williams to reach third WTA SF, all of which have

come on hard courts; also made it this far at 2017 Wuhan (l. Garcia) and 2018 Istanbul (l. Hercog)

Hit 21 winners to upset two-time champion V.Williams and score her fifth career Top 20 win – also No.6 Wozniacki

(2017 Wuhan), No.16 Vandeweghe (2018 Indian Wells), No.15 Bertens and No.5 Ka.Pliskova (both 2018 Rome)

Faces No.42 Collins in SF today – the last time the tournament had a finalist ranked outside the Top 30 was 2012

(No.120 Vandeweghe)

Is projected to move in to the Top 40 by reaching the SF. Can return to the Top 35 with R-Up finish and can move to a

new career-high No.26 with the title

During North American hard court swing last year, fell in qualifying at New Haven and reached 3r at US Open (l.

V.Williams)

Season

Entered 2018 San Jose on a four-match losing streak, which began with 3r loss at Roland Garros (l. Kasatkina)

and stretched to Birmingham (Goerges), Eastbourne (Kuznetsova) and Wimbledon (l. Kenin)

3r run at Roland Garros marked joint-best result at a Slam, and best result in Paris. Has now reached 3r at all

four Majors – also 2017 Australian Open (l. Lucic-Baroni), 2017 Wimbledon (l. Konta) and 2017 US Open (l.

V.Williams)

Rose to a new career-high ranking after Roland Garros at No.33 (June 11, 2018)

Entered Paris after 3r run at Rome – d. No.15 Bertens and No.5 Ka.Pliskova before falling to No.12 Kerber

Defeat of No.5 Ka.Pliskova in Rome 2r was first career Top 5 win

Had 1r exit in Madrid (l. eventual runner-up Bertens)

Reached SF in Istanbul (l. Hercog), her first semifinal appearance of 2018 and first since 2017 Wuhan

Made 3r at Miami. Upset a pair of opponents ranked above her, No.49 Krunic in 1r and No.28 Kontaveit in 2r; run

helped her return to Top 50

Enjoyed a R16 run at Indian Wells (l. Osaka in 3s – was the only player to take a set off eventual champion)

Made 2r exit at Acapulco (l. eventual R-Up Voegele). 1r defeat of Arruabarrena was first main draw win of 2018

During Middle Eastern swing, made 1r exit at Doha (l. Cirstea) and fell in Dubai qualifying

Began 2018 season with 1r exit at Shenzhen (l. Kovinic) followed by 1r qualifying defeat at Sydney (l. Cepede Royg). Fell

in 1r at Australian Open (l. Siniakova) and St. Petersburg (l. Goerges)

Career

Registered second-consecutive Top 100 year-end finish in 2017, finishing at No.52 – the highest year-end finish by a

Greek player since Daniilidou in 2007 (No.43) and the only Greek player to record a Top 100 finish in the last seven

years (since No.90 Daniilidou in 2011)

Notched a then-career best win and first Top 10 victory of career over No.6 Wozniacki en route to first WTA SF of

career at 2017 Wuhan Open – became just second qualifier to reach Premier-level SF in 2017 (Mertens at New Haven)

Enjoyed a career-best year at the majors, progressing to 3r for first time on three different occasions: Australian Open

(l. Lucic Baroni), Wimbledon (l. Konta) and US Open (l. V.Williams)

Broke into Top 50 for first time at No.49 on October 9, 2017

Reached first career WTA QF at 2016 Istanbul after qualifying to enter main draw (l. Kovinic) – at the time, achieved

best win‐by‐ranking defeating No.34 Schmiedlova in 1r

Elsewhere, played mainly ITF for first half of 2016 season, falling in qualifying at Brisbane, Hobart, Rio de Janeiro,

Monterrey, Indian Wells, Madrid and Roland Garros before making 2r at Wimbledon main draw (d. S.Zheng, l.

V.Williams in 3s). After Wimbledon, only other main draw win in 2016 came in 2r showing at Tashkent (d. Schmiedlova,

l. Flipkens)

Also played main draw again at 2016 Gstaad (l. Kontaveit in 1r), New Haven (as qualifier. L. Rodina 1r), Tokyo [Japan

Open] (l. Putintseva), Seoul (l. S.Zhang) and Hong Kong (l. World No.1 Kerber)

Opened 2016 by falling in qualifying at Brisbane and Hobart and 2r 2016 Australian Open (posted first Grand Slam

main draw win vs. Y.Wang, l. Suarez Navarro)

Owns seven ITF Circuit singles titles and five in doubles

Made WTA qualifying debut at 2012 Palermo

Made debut on ITF Circuit in 2010 at $10k ITF/Mytilino‐GRE. Owns seven singles and five doubles titles on ITF Circuit

Grand Slam History

2018 Wimbledon marked 11th Grand Slam main draw appearance

Has reached 3r at all four of the majors – at 2017 Australian Open (l. Lucic-Baroni), 2017 Wimbledon (l. Konta), 2017

US Open (l. V.Williams) and 2018 Roland Garros (l. Kasatkina)

3r run at 2017 Australian Open saw her become first Greek woman to reach the 3r at a Slam since Daniilidou at 2005

Wimbledon (l. Pennetta)

At 2016 Australian Open, reaching 2r, (d. Y.Wang, l. Suárez Navarro) became the first woman from Greece to win a

main draw match at a Slam since Daniilidou d. Ka.Pliskova at 2013 Australian Open

At all Grand Slams, Daniilidou reached R16 at 2002 Wimbledon, 2003 Australian Open and 2004 US Open

Other Information

Working with today’s opponent Collins’ ex-coach Tom Hill this week in San Jose

Born and grew up in Athens, Greece, before moving to Barcelona aged 18 – has trained there for two years

Mother, Angeliki Kanellopoulou, was tennis player too, however didn’t start because of her – just liked the sport. Tried

karate and gymnastics but was thrown out of class for laughing too much


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MUBADALA SILICON VALLEY CLASSIC – QUARTERFINALS (FRIDAY)

Stadium [5] MIHAELA BUZARNESCU (ROU #24) vs. AJLA TOMLJANOVIC (AUS #65)

Buzarnescu leads 1-0 Buzarnescu saved two match points to win pair’s previous meeting at 2017 Linz… Tomljanovic’s last

Top 30 win came at 2017 Miami… Romanian is appearing in seventh QF of 2018

JOHANNA KONTA (GBR #48) vs. [4] ELISE MERTENS (BEL #15) Konta leads 1-0

Konta won comfortably when the players clashed this spring in Miami… Only three players have won more main draw matches than Mertens in 2018… Konta has three Top 20 wins to her name this season

VICTORIA AZARENKA (BLR #108) vs. DANIELLE COLLINS (USA #42)

First meeting Both players bidding to reach first SF since Miami in March… Collins has won 19 matches on home soil

this year… Azarenka owns 2-2 record against US players in 2018

[3] VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #14) vs. MARIA SAKKARI (GRE #49) Williams leads 2-0

Williams won most recent encounter en route to 2017 US Open SF… Sakkari needed under an hour to win second-round match… Williams through to QF at this tournament for a 12th time

A LOOK AT THE QUARTERFINALISTS

*Includes current tournament / ^Does not include current tournament

PLAYER RANK AGE NAT SAN JOSE

(MD) W/L* YTD

W/L* CAREER

W/L*

YTD PRIZE MONEY$^

CAREER PRIZE $^

CAREER TITLES

[3] Venus Williams 14 38 USA 34-11 13-8 788-230 822,789 40,723,278 49 [4] Elise Mertens 15 22 BEL 1-0 33-12 242-123 1,508,500 2,304,740 4 [5] Mihaela Buzarnescu 24 30 ROU 2-0 35-20 400-208 844,079 1,220,896 0 Danielle Collins 42 24 USA 2-0 30-13 110-61 639,126 803,852 0 Johanna Konta 48 27 GBR 6-0 19-15 333-202 584,201 6,721,524 3 Maria Sakkari 49 23 GRE 2-0 17-16 269-177 512,523 1,452,151 0 Ajla Tomljanovic 65 25 AUS 4-4 25-16 258-180 281,703 1,903,292 0 Victoria Azarenka 108 28 BLR 7-3 11-7 478-175 604,052 29,035,241 20


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POTENTIAL SEMIFINAL HEAD-TO-HEADS

QUARTERFINAL RECORDS

PLAYER BEST 2018 RESULT BEST SAN JOSE

RESULT LAST SEMIFINAL REACHED (final result)

CAREER QF W/L*

CAREER SF W/L*

[3] Venus Williams SF (1): Indian Wells WON (1): 2000, 2002 2018 Indian Wells (SF) 116-47 82-32

[4] Elise Mertens WON (3): Hobart, Lugano, Rabat

QF (1): 2018 2018 Rabat (WON) 9-3 5-4

[5] Mihaela Buzarnescu R-Up (2): Hobart, Prague QF (1): 2018 2018 Bucharest (SF) 6-1 2-4

Danielle Collins SF (1): Miami QF (1): 2018 2018 Miami (SF) 1-1 0-1

Johanna Konta R-Up (1): Nottingham WON (1): 2016 2018 Nottingham (R-Up) 12-12 7-5

Maria Sakkari SF (1): Istanbul QF (1): 2018 2018 Istanbul (SF) 2-2 0-2

Ajla Tomljanovic R-Up (1): Rabat QF (2): 2015, 2018 2018 Rabat (R-Up) 3-7 2-1

Victoria Azarenka SF (1): Miami WON (1): 2010 2018 Miami (SF) 56-23 36-19 *W/L records do not include walkovers


WILLIAMS SAKKARIAZARENKA Williams leads 4-2 First meeting

COLLINS Collins leads 1-0 First meeting

BUZARNESCU TOMLJANOVIC KONTA First meeting Konta leads 1-0

MERTENS Mertens leads 3-0 Mertens leads 1-0

BY THE NUMBERS

400 Mihaela Buzarnescu scored the 400th win (at all levels) of

her career in the second round on Thursday

80 Maria Sakkari has won a remarkable 80% of her return

games this week, breaking serve 12 times in two matches

34 Venus Williams has scored 34 wins across her 14 appearances at this tournament. The other seven

quarterfinalists have a combined total of 24

18 Both Buzarnescu’s matches this week have gone the

distance. She has now played a WTA-leading 18 three-set matches in 2018 (also Katerina Siniakova)

15 The progress of Williams and Danielle Collins ensures that

for an eighth straight year the United States has at least one quarterfinal representative at the tournament

0 Collins and Sakkari are both yet to reach a WTA final

ON THIS DAY: AUGUST 3, 2006 The United States Tennis Association announces that the National Tennis Center will be renamed the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, honoring the tennis legend and trailblazer. “It is truly humbling that this will link me with Arthur Ashe with whom I shared dreams of the future for this great sport. I know this will continue to be a place where players come out, pick up a racquet, learn a sport and dare to dream big and go for it,” King said.


MATCH NOTES

[5] MIHAELA BUZARNESCU (ROU #24) vs. AJLA TOMLJANOVIC (AUS #65)

Head to Head: MIHAELA BUZARNESCU leads 1-0

2017 HARD I R16 MIHAELA BUZARNESCU 138 mins4-6 7-6(1) 6-1 LINZ

MIHAELA BUZARNESCU

24

18

04-05-1988 (30)

$844,079

$1,220,896

0 / 0

1 / 1

32-19 / 35-22

11-7 / 13-7

8-5 / 11-8

AJLA TOMLJANOVIC

65

46

07-05-1993 (25)

$281,703

$1,903,292

0 / 0

0 / 0

4-4

14-12 / 63-81

7-4 / 28-30

2-3 / 26-19

WTA RANKING


DATE OF BIRTH (AGE)

YTD PRIZE MONEY

CAREER PRIZE MONEY



SAN JOSE W-L (MD) *






2-0

6-4 / 37-46 9-7 / 12-10

2-2 / 2-2 1-1 / 4-8

3-5 / 3-6 0-3 / 1-4

4-8 / 4-9 0-8 / 4-22




* Updated entering 2018 San Jose QF

[5] MIHAELA BUZARNESCU (ROU #24)

R16: d. AMANDA ANISIMOVA (USA #198) 7-5,2-6,6-1 (1h46)

R32: d. SACHIA VICKERY (USA #73) 6-3,4-6,6-3 (1h58)

ROAD TO THE QUARTERFINALS

Vs.

AJLA TOMLJANOVIC (AUS #65)

R16: d. MAGDALENA FRECH (POL #121) 6-4,3-6,6-3 (2h10)

R32: d. GEORGINA GARCIA PEREZ (ESP #157) 6-4,6-1 (1h01)

Total games: 55

Won/lost: 31-24

Sets won/lost: 4-2




Total games: 45

Won/lost: 27-18

Sets won/lost: 4-1





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BUZARNESCU:

San Jose

Contesting a Bay Area event for the first time in her career, having never previously played the Mubadala Silicon Valley

Classic’s predecessor in Stanford

In parallel week in 2017, played ITF event at $25k Woking-GBR, ranked No.142 – in contrast, contesting week of 2018

San Jose at a career-high ranking of No.24 (first set July 23, 2018)

Defeated Vickery in 1r and Anisimova in 2r – is now 5-2 vs. women from USA in 2018 at tour-level; also defeated Riske

(Hobart), King (Roland Garros) and Falconi (Nottingham), and lost to Brady (Indian Wells) and Keys (Roland Garros)

Now owns 32 tour-level main draw wins this season, the equal fifth-most in 2018 (level with Mertens). Prior to

2018, had three WTA wins to her name. Win over Anisimova was also 400th of her career (including ITF Circuit)

Faces Tomljanovic in QF today – saved 2mp to win only previous encounter last autumn in Linz

Has advanced to QF at a WTA tournament for the seventh time in 2018. Also reached this stage at Hobart –

R-Up, Prague – R-Up, Strasbourg – SF, Nottingham – QF, Birmingham – SF and Bucharest – SF

Seeded No.5 this week – third time seeded at Premier level or above (also No.15 at Charleston, No.31 at Roland

Garros and No.28 Wimbledon)

Making her WTA-leading 21st main draw appearance this week. To date, there have been 24 possible

opportunities to compete on the tour-calendar

No.2 seed in doubles draw w/Watson – play Konta/Zhang in QF today


MATCH NOTES

AJLA TOMLJANOVIC

2017

R1 L - COCO VANDEWEGHE (USA #24) 6-2

2015

QF L - KAROLINA PLISKOVA (CZE #11) 6-2 6-4

2014

R1 L - ANDREA PETKOVIC (GER #18) 6-1 6-4

2013

R1 L - STEFANIE VOEGELE (SUI #50) 6-4 6-0

2011

QF-Q L - URSZULA RADWANSKA (POL #131) 6-3 5-7 6-1

2010

QF-Q L - OLGA SAVCHUK (UKR #158) 6-3 6-3


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SAN JOSE Tournament History "-Q" Qualifying match

Season

Coming off SF showing at home tournament in Bucharest (l. eventual R-Up Martic)

Made Wimbledon main draw debut earlier in July, reaching 3r (l. Ka.Pliskova). Was second time reaching 3r at a

Grand Slam, having progressed to R16 at Roland Garros this year. 2018 Wimbledon was just the fourth grass

court event of her career at tour-level

Made R16 showing at Eastbourne (l. Ostapenko); win over No.20 Bertens in 2r marked fourth career win over a

Top 20 player (4-9 career record), with previous wins all coming earlier this year over No.6 Ostapenko (Doha),

No.4 Svitolina (Roland Garros) and No.5 Svitolina (Birmingham)

Made SF run at Birmingham (l. eventual champion Kvitova) – her first QF and SF at WTA Premier-level

Reached QF at Nottingham (l. Osaka) in what was her first-ever WTA-level tournament on grass

Reached third and fourth WTA doubles finals of the season (and career) at Nottingham (w/Watson, l.

Rosolska/Spears in F) and Eastbourne (w/Begu, l. Dabrowski/Xu in F). Now has 1-3 record in doubles finals

Enjoyed run to R16 at Roland Garros, her best result at a major (l. Keys). Produced one of biggest upsets at this

year’s Roland Garros by defeating World No.4 Svitolina in straight sets in 3r

Finished with an 11-7 record on clay in 2018, highlighted by R-Up finish at Prague (l. Kvitova) and SF at

Strasbourg (l. eventual R-Up Cibulkova)

Won first career doubles title at Strasbourg (w/Olaru, d. N.Kichenok/An.Rodionova in F)

Suffered 1r defeats at both Madrid (l. Sharapova) and Rome (l. Zhang)

Reached second WTA singles final of career at Prague (l. Kvitova in 3s); rose to then-career-high ranking of

No.32 following the tournament (May 7, 2018). Also doubles R-Up in Czech capital (w/Marozava, l.

Melichar/Peschke)

Part of Romania team that beat Switzerland 3-1 reach World Group for the second time in four years (l. dead

doubles rubber w/Cirstea against Golubic/Teichmann)

Other clay court results included 2r run in Charleston (l. Errani) and 1r exit at Lugano (l. Sabalenka)

Fell 1r back-to-back at Indian Wells (l. Brady) and Miami (l. Flipkens) after a 2r showing at Budapest (l. eventual

champion Van Uytvanck)

Reached R16 at Doha (l. Goerges). Scored career first Top 10 win over No.6 Ostapenko in 2r

Advanced to SF at $100k ITF/Midland, MI-USA (l. Brengle) after 1r exit at Australian Open (l. eventual champion

Wozniacki)

Reached first career WTA singles final at Hobart (l. Mertens in 3s), having not dropped a set en route to the final

Opened 2018 season at Shenzhen, falling 1r to Sharapova

Career

Enjoyed breakthrough year in 2017, achieving first Top 100 season of career at No.72. Previous best year-end

finish was in 2011 (No.155)

Reached first tour-level SF of career at 2017 Linz (having come through qualifying), defeating No.35 Kontaveit

en route (l. eventual champion Strycova)

Broke into Top 100 after Linz run (October 16, 2017); at 29 was the oldest Top 100 debutante since 33-year-old

Obziler on February 19, 2007 at No.96

Made Grand Slam and WTA main draw debut at 2017 US Open as a qualifier (l. Wozniacki in 1r). Prior to US

Open breakthrough had made 16 unsuccessful attempts to qualify for tour-level tournaments, including eight

Grand Slams, dating back to 2007 Fès

Only other main draw appearance in 2017 resulted in 1r exit at Luxembourg

Ascent up the rankings helped by strong showings on ITF Circuit in 2017, picking up seven titles, including

$100k ITF/Poitiers-FRA and $80k ITF/Biarritz-FRA

Posted a 9-11 win-loss record in 2016, with best result a QF run at $50k ITF/Hodmezovasarhely-HUN. Finished

year ranked No.351 (down from No.260 in 2015)

In 2015, won 48 matches, four ITF Circuit titles and rose over 600 places in the rankings, finishing at No.260

Made WTA qualifying debut at 2007 Fès

Has won 22 singles and 34 doubles titles on ITF Circuit

Made professional debut at 2004 $10k ITF/Bucharest-ROU (l. Savu in 1r)

Grand Slam History

2018 Wimbledon marked fourth main draw appearance at a Grand Slam

Has been seeded twice at a Grand Slam in her career – was No.31 seed at 2018 Roland Garros, and No.29 seed

at 2018 Wimbledon

Advanced to R16 at 2018 Roland Garros (l. Keys) for her best result at a major to date; also made 3r at 2018

Wimbledon (l. Ka.Pliskova)

Fell 1r on Grand Slam main draw debut at 2017 US Open (as qualifier, l. No.5 seed Wozniacki) and 2018

Australian Open (l. No.2 seed and eventual champion Wozniacki)

Reached QF stage in doubles at 2018 Roland Garros (w/Bara, l. H.Chan/Z.Yang)

Before making main draw debut, had fallen eight times in Grand Slam qualifying previously, at Australian Open

(2012, 2017) Roland Garros (2012), Wimbledon (2012, 2017) and US Open (2011, 2012, 2015)

Other Information

Coached by Fratila Septimiu and father, Mihai, a former Romanian intercollegiate tennis player; mother is

Marcela (pharmacist). Introduced to tennis at age 4 by parents

Has been part of the Romanian national tennis federation since age 12

Dream doubles partners are childhood idol Pete Sampras and all-time favorite player Serena Williams

Friends on tour include regular doubles partner Heather Watson, other Romanians and Caroline Wozniacki

Favorite foods are pizza and carbonara pasta

Gained PhD in sports science from UNEFS in Bucharest

TOMLJANOVIC:

San Jose

Making seventh overall appearance at the Bay Area event (and fifth in the main draw), having participated in the

Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic’s predecessor in Stanford six times previously

Achieved best result in 2015 when she advanced to QF (l. eventual R-Up Ka.Pliskova), and fell in 1r or qualifying in all

other appearances

Playing fourth hardcourt tournament in California of the season – reached SF in WTA 125k Series events at Newport

Beach (l. eventual champion Collins) and Indian Wells (l. eventual R-Up Bondarenko) before falling in qualifying at

Indian Wells

Defeated qualifier García Pérez in 1r in straight sets, winning all eight service games and dropping just five service

points throughout the second set

In 2r, beat Lucky Loser Frech, who replaced defending champion Keys, to reach 11th career WTA QF

Faces No.24 Buzarnescu today; owns two Top 50 wins in 2018, against No.41 Tsurenko at Miami and No.49 Van

Uytvanck at Istanbul

Attempting to reach SF at a Premier-level tournament for the first time in her career

The only woman representing Australia in the starting field here at San Jose – hoping to become the first Australian to

lift the trophy in the Bay Area since 1973 (Court)

Season

Enjoyed a QF run as a qualifier in Mallorca (l. Sevastova) before suffering a 1r exit at Wimbledon (l. Keys) to finish her

grass swing with a 3-3 record

Reached 2r of ‘S-Hertogenbosch (l. Sabalenka) after falling in opening round of WTA 125k Series event in Bol (l.

Zidansek)

Clay swing culminated with 1r exits at Roland Garros (l. Svitolina)

Fell 1r at Rome (as qualifier, l. Kasatkina)

Reached her second career WTA singles final at Rabat (l. Mertens in F). Only other final appearance came in 2015

Pattaya City (l. Hantuchova)

Other clay results included a 2r showing in Istanbul (l. Vekic) and 1r exit at Bogotá (l. Zarazua)

At Monterrey, made first WTA QF appearance since 2015 (Tokyo [Japan Open]) before falling to the eventual

champion, Muguruza

Suffered a 2r loss to the eventual champion, Stephens, in Miami, after defeating No.41 Tsurenko in 1r – remains her

best win of 2018 by ranking thus far

Reached back-to-back SF at the WTA 125K Series events at Newport Beach (l. eventual champion Collins) and Indian

Wells (l. K.Bondarenko) before failing to make it through qualifying at the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells

Suffered 1r loss at Australian Open (l. Safarova)

Began 2018 with a 2r appearance in Brisbane (l. Konta in 3s)

Grand Slam History

2018 Wimbledon marked 16th Grand Slam main draw appearance. Made debut at 2013 Wimbledon (as qualifier, l.

Bojanovski)

Best Grand Slam result to date was R16 run at 2014 Roland Garros (d. No.32 seed Vesnina in 2r and No.3 seed

A.Radwanska in 3r, l. Suárez Navarro)

Has also reached 2r at Australian Open twice, in 2014 (l. Stephens) and 2015 (l. Lepchenko), at Wimbledon in 2015 (l.

A.Radwanska) and at US Open in 2013 (as qualifier, l. Cornet) and 2017 (l. Krunic)

Won the junior doubles crown in Australia in 2009 (w/McHale)

Career

Opened 2016 season at Brisbane and Australian Open, but thereafter underwent shoulder surgery and was off tour

until 2017 Acapulco (early March)

Finished 2016 season at No.930

Advanced to 2r at comeback event at 2017 Acapulco, defeating Bouchard in 1r – her first main draw win since

September 2015 at Tokyo [Japan Open] – before retiring vs. Flipkens in 2r (w/shoulder injury)

Improved ranking back to No.151 by end of 2017 season, helped by 3r run at Miami (l. Safarova) and 2r efforts at US

Open (l. Krunic) and Linz (l. Buzarnescu)

On ITF Circuit, finished R-Up in final tournament of 2017 at $100k ITF/Dubai-UAE (l. Bencic) in December and also

reached finals at $60k ITF/Sacramento (l. Anisimova), CA-USA and $80k Waco, TX-USA (l. Townsend)

Ended 2015 at No.66 for her third consecutive Top 100 finish (career-best rank to date is No.47 in January 2015)

Made first WTA final of career in 2015, finishing R-Up at Pattaya City (l. Hantuchova in 3s) – previously, had never been

past the QF at any WTA event

Reached first Premier-level QF of career in 2015, at Stanford (l. No.11 Ka.Pliskova). Other notable results in 2015 were

SF run at Tokyo [Japan Open] (l. eventual champion Wickmayer) and QF at Strasbourg (l. eventual champion Stosur)

Improved ranking from No.453 to No.78 in 2013 season – biggest jump of any player in Top 100

Made pro debut on ITF Circuit in Croatia in 2007. WTA main draw debut came at 2009 Indian Wells (as WC, l. 1r)

Owns four wins over Top 20 opponents: No.13 Vesnina (2017 Miami), No.18 Keys (2015 Stanford), No.16 Jankovic

(2015 Brisbane) and No.3 A.Radwanska (2014 Roland Garros)

As a junior, achieved career-high ranking of No.4 in singles and No.4 in doubles. Member of Croatia’s victorious junior

Fed Cup team in 2009

Other Information

Coach and fitness trainer is father Ratko Tomljanovic

Started playing tennis at age 7 (introduced by sister)

Speaks Croatian, English, German

Best tennis memory was first time on court with Chris Evert

Announced in 2014 she would switch nationalities and start representing Australia (first did so at 2014 US Open)

Moved to Brisbane in November 2014 with Australian residency; parted ways with coach David Taylor in June 2015


MATCH NOTES

JOHANNA KONTA (GBR #48) vs. [4] ELISE MERTENS (BEL #15)

Head to Head: JOHANNA KONTA leads 1-0

2018 HARD O R3 JOHANNA KONTA 65 mins6-2 6-1 MIAMI

JOHANNA KONTA

48

36

17-05-1991 (27)

$584,201

$6,721,524

0 / 3

0 / 0

19-15 / 121-78

2-7 / 25-37

4-3 / 27-19

ELISE MERTENS

15

11

17-11-1995 (22)

$1,508,500

$2,304,740

3 / 4

3 / 5

1-0

33-12 / 68-36

8-3 / 22-11

5-5 / 12-13

WTA RANKING


DATE OF BIRTH (AGE)

YTD PRIZE MONEY

CAREER PRIZE MONEY



SAN JOSE W-L (MD) *






6-0

13-6 / 31-18 10-7 / 80-40

0-3 / 10-10 4-0 / 5-0

0-6 / 14-15 1-3 / 2-6

3-7 / 28-24 1-5 / 4-16





JOHANNA KONTA (GBR #48)

R16: d. SOFIA KENIN (USA #68) 6-1,6-4 (1h10)

R32: d. [6] SERENA WILLIAMS (USA #26) 6-1,6-0 (0h51)


Vs.


R16: d. ASHLEY KRATZER (USA #251) 6-2,6-0 (1h02)

R32: BYE

Total games: 30

Won/lost: 24-6

Sets won/lost: 4-0




Total games: 14

Won/lost: 12-2

Sets won/lost: 2-0




JOHANNA KONTA

2016

W - VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #7) F 7-5 5-7 6-2


from

KONTA:

San Jose

Prior to inaugural event here in San Jose, made one appearance at tournament’s predecessor in Stanford in 2016,

where she went on to lift her debut WTA title (d. V.Williams in F)

As a result, she became the first British woman to reach final of a Premier event since WTA Roadmap was

introduced in 2009, and first British woman to win the tournament since Barker in 1977 (when it was held in San

Francisco)

In 1r match on Tuesday, dispatched S.Williams – a three-time San Jose champion – 6-1 6-0. Was Serena’s

heaviest defeat of her career (only occasion she has failed to win more than one game in a match) and first time

losing a set-to-love since 2014 WTA Finals (lost 6-0 6-2 to Halep)

Is first British woman to defeat Serena – Konta fell to her at 2017 Australian Open (QF), Watson at 2015

Wimbledon (3r) and Robson at 2013 Rome (2r)

Overcame No.68 Kenin in 2r on Wednesday – has lost to players her rank-or-lower at four events this season, to

No.123 Pera (Australian Open), No.219 Stollar (Charleston), No.97 Pera (Madrid) and No.97 Putintseva (Roland

Garros)

Has reached her first QF at WTA Premier-level or above for almost a year – made QF at 2017 Cincinnati (l.

eventual R-Up Halep)

Faces No.15 Mertens today – is 3-7 vs. Top 20 opponents in 2018, defeating No.19 Keys (Brisbane) and No.19

Rybarikova (at Madrid then Rome in back-to-back weeks)

Owns a 5-2 record vs. Belgian players in career, wins coming over Wickmayer (2016 Monterrey, 2017

Nottingham), Flipkens (2017 Australian Open, 2018 Miami) and Mertens (2018 Miami). Lost to Wickmayer at

2016 Birmingham and Flipkens at 2016 Monterrey

Bidding to reach first SF at Premier-level or above since SF run at 2017 Wimbledon (l. eventual R-Up V.Williams)

Would face winner of Buzarnescu vs. Tomljanovic in last four if she wins today

Contesting doubles this fortnight w/Zhang Shuai – team dispatched Cako/Geuer in 1r and face

Buzarnescu/Watson in QF today

One of two representatives of Great Britain to begin singles main draw – also Watson (who fell to V.Williams on

Thursday)

Enjoyed mixed results during 2017 US hardcourt swing – lifted title here in San Jose, lost opening match at

Toronto (l. Makarova), reached QF of Cincinnati (l. eventual R-Up Halep) and suffered 1r exit at US Open (l.

Krunic)

Season

Contesting first event since 2r exit at Wimbledon (l. Cibulkova), having reached SF at All England Club in 2017

Reached sixth WTA singles final of career at Nottingham (l. Barty) before making 1r exit at Birmingham (l.

eventual champion Kvitova) and reaching 3r at home event of Eastbourne (l. Wozniacki)

In 2017, posted the best win-loss record on grass across tour-level events (13-3), including a runner-up finish at

Nottingham (l. Vekic), and SF runs at Eastbourne (l. Ka.Pliskova) and Wimbledon (l. V.Williams)

Fell 1r at Roland Garros (l. Putintseva)

Reached R16 at Rome (l. Ostapenko in 3s) after 1r exit at Madrid (l. Pera)

Reached QF in doubles at Madrid (d. No.4 seeds Xu/Dabrowski in R16 before falling to Klepac/Martinez Sanchez)

Fell in 2r at Charleston (after 1r bye, l. Stollar)

Enjoyed a good run of form as the defending champion at Miami, where she reached R16 (l. V.Williams in 3s). Hit

50 winners across opening two matches, against Belgium’s Flipkens and Mertens, to reach R16

Made 2r exit at Indian Wells (after 1r bye, l. Vondrousova)

Finished the Middle East swing with 3-2 record, reaching R16 at Doha (l. Kerber) before a 2r exit at Dubai (l.

Kasatkina)

Won all three singles rubbers to help Great Britain advance from Europe/Africa Zone Group I and set up a World

Group II play-off against Japan in April

Made 2r exit at Australian Open, falling to No.123-ranked lucky loser Pera – worst loss by ranking since falling to

No.164 Torró-Flor at 2015 $50k ITF/Saint-Gaudens-FRA

Made 2r exit at Sydney (as defending champion, l. A.Radwanska)

Opened 2017 season by reaching QF at Brisbane (l. eventual champion Svitolina). Was two points from victory in

second set against Svitolina before retiring with a right hip injury midway through third set

Win over Keys in 1r at Brisbane broke five-match losing streak carried over from 2017

Career

Enjoyed best season of career in 2017, posting career-high season finish of No.9 (second Top 10 season in a

row). Peaked in rankings at No.4 on July 17, 2017

Began 2017 season in great form by lifting title at Sydney (d. A.Radwanska in F), before landing biggest title of

career at Premier-Mandatory Miami (d. Wozniacki in F)

At 2017 Wimbledon became first British player since Virginia Wade in 1978 to reach Wimbledon SF (l. R-Up

V.Williams). Had previously won just one match from five previous visits to All England Club, in 2016 (d. Puig, l.

Bouchard in 2r)

Reached third final of 2017 season at Nottingham (l. Vekic)

Overall record in WTA finals now stands at 3-3

Also in 2017, reached SF for second year in a row at home event of Eastbourne – conceded walkover to eventual

champion Ka.Pliskova, having sustained a thoracic spine injury during her QF defeat of World No.1 Kerber (fell

heavily on match point, but won match after treatment). Match against Kerber was second of day, after she

defeated Roland Garros champion Ostapenko in R16

With win over Kerber, became first British woman to defeat a reigning World No.1 since Barker d. Chris Evert at

1979 Boston

Was in contention for WTA Finals qualification in 2017, however withdrawal from Moscow opened spot for

Garcia

Career record vs. Top 5 stands at 5-8; wins coming over No.2 Halep at 2015 Wuhan, No.3 A.Radwanska at 2017

Sydney, No.5 Halep at 2017 Miami, No.1 Kerber at 2017 Eastbourne and No.2 Halep at Wimbledon

Posted first Top 10 season in 2016, at No.10

Ended 2016 season at WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai in November (went 2‐0 in round‐robin play), fell in SF (l.

Svitolina)

Reached first Premier mandatory final of career at 2016 Beijing (l. A.Radwanska)

Alternate for WTA Finals in Singapore, narrowly missing qualification in the Top 8; was not called upon to play a

match

By virtue of reaching 2016 Beijing final, made WTA Top 10 debut – first British woman to feature in the elite

group since Durie in 1984, and the fourth British woman overall to do so (also Wade and Barker). Became 119th

woman to break into the Top 10, and the fourth to do so in 2016 after Vinci, Bencic and Keys

Won career‐first singles title at 2016 Stanford in maiden final (d. V.Williams in F). First British woman to reach

final of a Premier event since WTA Roadmap was introduced in 2009, and first British woman to win the

tournament since Barker in 1977 (when it was held in San Francisco)

Broke into Top 20 on June 6, 2016 (at No.18) – first British woman in Top 20 for nearly 30 years (the week of

October 13, 1986, with Durie at No.20)

Was voted WTA Most Improved Player in 2016 by international media and fans

Played first events of career on ITF Circuit in 2006, making WTA main draw debut at 2011 Copenhagen (as

qualifier, l. 1r)

Grand Slam History

2018 Wimbledon marked 20th main draw appearance at a Grand Slam

Is a two-time Grand Slam semifinalist. Made Slam breakthrough with historic run to SF at 2016 Australian Open

(l. eventual champion Kerber); first British woman to reach the last four at Melbourne Park since Sue Barker in

December 1977, and at any Grand Slam since Jo Durie at 1983 US Open

Has since reached SF at 2017 Wimbledon (l. R-Up V.Williams), becoming the first British woman to reach the last

four since Virginia Wade in 1978 (l. Evert)

Also made QF at Australian Open in 2017 (l. eventual champion S.Williams), while at US Open has twice reached

R16, in 2015 (l. Kvitova) and 2016 (l. Sevastova)

At Roland Garros has never been beyond 1r, falling at the first hurdle in 2015-18

Other Information

Was introduced to the sport at age eight by parents; started to play at an after‐school care program

Born in Sydney, Australia; became a British citizen in May 2012. Parents are Gabor (hotelier) and Gabriella

(dentist); older sister is Eva (works in fashion)

Grandfather Tamas Kertesz played football for the Hungarian ‘Golden Team’ with Ferenc Puskas in 1955

Currently coached by Michael Joyce, having parted ways with Wim Fissette at end of 2017 season

MERTENS:

San Jose



Contesting 2018 San Jose at a career-high ranking of No.15, first posted week after Roland Garros (June 11, 2018).

Last year began North American hardcourt swing at No.47

Seeded No.4 this week – her highest seeding at a WTA Premier-level tournament (previous best was No.7 at 2018

Birmingham

After 1r bye, defeated No.251 Kratzer in 2r on Wednesday for the loss of only two games

Win was 33rd of 2018 - only Kerber (39), Kvitova (38) and Halep (37) own more wins this season (none of which are

playing an event this week). In contrast, has 22 tour-level main draw wins at this stage last season

Faces Konta today - lost previous meeting at 2018 Miami, winning only three games

Owns a 3-1 record vs. British women, defeating Watson three times (at 2017 Luxembourg, 2018 Hobart and 2018

Roland Garros) and falling to Konta (2018 Miami)

Season
























Career












Luxembourg



(w/Schuurs)




Grand Slam History









Other Information



in Paris




Was home schooled


MATCH NOTES

VICTORIA AZARENKA (BLR #108) vs. DANIELLE COLLINS (USA #42)

First Meeting

VICTORIA AZARENKA

108

76

31-07-1989 (29)

$604,052

$29,035,241

0 / 20

0 / 6

11-7 / 423-155

3-2 / 80-53

2-2 / 62-41

DANIELLE COLLINS

42

29

13-12-1993 (24)

$639,126

$803,852

0 / 0

0 / 0

2-0

15-10 / 15-13

8-1 / 8-2

2-2 / 3-2

WTA RANKING


DATE OF BIRTH (AGE)

YTD PRIZE MONEY

CAREER PRIZE MONEY



SAN JOSE W-L (MD) *






7-3

11-3 / 11-6 8-2 / 290-89

0-1 / 44-13 1-1 / 1-1



6-5 / 242-127

9-7 / 366-145

6-6 / 6-9

13-10 / 14-16


VICTORIA AZARENKA (BLR #108)

R16: d. ANNA BLINKOVA (RUS #101) 6-1,6-0 (0h57)

R32: d. KATERYNA BONDARENKO (UKR #79) 6-3,6-7(7),7-5 (2h40)


Vs.


R16: d. VERA LAPKO (BLR #69) 6-1,3-6,6-1 (1h52)


Total games: 47

Won/lost: 31-16

Sets won/lost: 4-1




Total games: 45

Won/lost: 28-17

Sets won/lost: 4-1




SAN JOSE Tournament History

VICTORIA AZARENKA

2014

L - VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #25) R16 6-4 7-6(1)

2011

L - MARINA ERAKOVIC (NZL #121) R16 4-6 7-5 6-2


from

AZARENKA:

San Jose

Prior to inaugural event here in San Jose, had made four previous appearance at tournament’s predecessor in

Stanford, lifting the title there in 2010 (d. Sharapova in F)

Is making first appearance at the Bay Area event after an absence of four years, falling to V.Williams in 2r in 2014

(after 1r bye)

Prior to 2018, her title run in 2010 marked the only occasion she has tasted success at this event, after opening match

losses in 2007 (l. Kirilenko), 2011 (l. Erakovic after 1r bye) and 2014 (l. V.Williams after 1r bye)

Returns to hardcourt this week having won six of eight matches on the surface earlier this season, including a SF run

in Miami

Improved her record against Ka.Bondarenko to 5-0 following a hard-fought 3s victory in the 1r – was the first time

dropping a set against the Ukrainian

Defeated lucky loser Blinkova in 2r after Muguruza withdrew due to a right arm injury; dominated the match, not

losing a single service point throughout the second set

The win secures back-to-back victories, marking the second time this season she has done so (also Miami), having only

appeared in seven events thus far

Faces No.42 Collins today for the first time in her career; holds a 6-5 record this season against Top 50 opponents,

including a 5-2 record in such matches on hardcourt

Did not contest summer US swing last year due to personal reasons

Season

San Jose marks first event since 2r exit at Wimbledon (l. Ka.Pliskova) in what was her 12th appearance at the All

England Club. 1r win over Alexandrova was 122nd Grand Slam main draw win – ranks sixth among active players. In

only other grass court event, made 2r exit at Mallorca (l. Safarova)

In mixed doubles at SW19, reached the final w/J.Murray, losing to Peya/Melichar

Posted back-to-back 1r exits at Rome (l. Osaka) and Roland Garros (l. Siniakova)

Suffered 2r exit at Madrid (l. Ka.Pliskova). Saw off Krunic in 1r to register her first win on clay in two years (d. Cornet in

2r at 2016 Madrid)


MATCH NOTES

2010

W - MARIA SHARAPOVA (RUS #15) F 6-4 6-1

2007

L - MARIA KIRILENKO (RUS #45) R1 3-6 7-5 6-4


from

Made SF run at Miami (as WC, l. eventual champion Stephens). Upset No.15 Keys, No.17 Sevastova and No.6

Ka.Pliskova to register multiple Top 20 wins at same tournament for first time since 2016 Miami title run

Returned to Top 100 (at No.92) after SF run at Miami

Fell 2r at Indian Wells, defeating Watson in 1r before falling to Stephens

Career

Made return to tennis in June 2017 following birth of first child Leo in December 2016

Comeback tournament was on the grass of 2017 Mallorca, reaching 2r (d. Ozaki, l. Konjuh). Prior to 2017 Mallorca, last

tournament contested was 2016 Roland Garros (1r)

Followed this up with R16 showing at 2017 Wimbledon (l. Halep). Did not play any tournaments after Wimbledon due

to personal reasons

Ended 2016 ranked No.13, despite missing second half of season after going on maternity leave (announced

pregnancy mid-July). Lifted three titles, at Brisbane (first title since 2013 Cincinnati) and ‘Sunshine Double’ of Indian

Wells and Miami – third woman to achieve feat after Graf in 1994 and 1996 and Clijsters in 2005

Miami marked 20th tour-level singles title of career (20-16 record in finals)

Posted 26‐3 record for first six months of 2016 with losses coming at the Australian Open (QF, l. Kerber), Rome (2r, l.

Begu) and Roland Garros (ret. vs. Knapp w/right knee injury)

Limited to total of 23 events over 2014-15 seasons due to variety of injuries

Posted five consecutive Top 10 finishes between 2009 and 2013, qualifying for the WTA Finals on each occasion,

reaching final at Istanbul in 2011 (l. Kvitova)

Two-time Grand Slam champion, capturing back-to-back titles at the Australian Open in 2012 (d. Sharapova in F) and

2013 (d. Li in F). Also two-time finalist at US Open, in 2012 and 2013, falling to S.Williams on both occasions

Ascended to World No.1 after 2012 Australian Open and held top spot for a total of 51 weeks

Began 2012 with 26-match win streak – best start since Hingis went 37-0 in 1997. Went on to win tour-leading 69

matches in 2012, season highlighted by six titles, finishing as WTA’s year-end No.1

Owns 3‐9 record vs. World No.1s, with wins coming over S.Williams at 2009 Miami, 2013 Cincinnati and 2016 Indian

Wells. Losses were to Safina (2009 Roland Garros), Wozniacki (2011 Indian Wells) and S.Williams (2010 Australian

Open, 2013 Rome, 2013 US Open, 2013 Brisbane, 2015 Madrid, 2015 Roland Garros, 2015 Wimbledon)

Won two medals for Belarus at 2012 London Olympics – bronze in singles and mixed doubles gold (w/Mirnyi)

Made WTA main draw debut at 2005 Kolkata

ITF Junior World Champion for 2005 – reached first tour-level semifinal at Guangzhou the same year

Grand Slam History


Is a two‐time Grand Slam champion, winning the Australian Open in 2012 (d. Sharapova in F) and again in 2013 (d. Li

in F). Also a two‐time Grand Slam runner‐up, at 2012 and 2013 US Open (losing to S.Williams both times in 3s)

Reached Wimbledon SF in 2011 and 2012, while best result at Roland Garros has been SF appearance in 2013

Three Grand Slam doubles R-Up, at 2008 Australian Open (w/Peer), 2009 Roland Garros (w/Vesnina) and 2011

Australian Open (w/Kirilenko). Two-time Grand Slam mixed doubles champion, at 2007 US Open (w/Mirnyi) and 2008

Roland Garros (w/B.Bryan). Most recently finished as mixed doubles R-Up at 2018 Wimbledon (w/J.Murray)

Won girls’ singles titles at the Australian Open and US Open in 2005

Other Information

Coached by Benjamin Ebrahimzadeh. Formerly coached by Wim Fissette, Sam Sumyk and Michael Joyce

Gave birth to son Leo in December 2016

Introduced to tennis at age 7 by mother Alla; father's name is Fedor and older brother is Max

At 15, moved from hometown Minsk to train in Scottsdale, Arizona

COLLINS:

San Jose




Playing back on home soil after posting an impressive 17-4 record in the States earlier this season, including a title at

WTA 125k series event at Newport Beach and a SF run at Miami

Overcame qualifier Lao in 1r and 19-year-old Lapko in 2r to increase her tour level main draw win tally to 16

Victory over Lapko improved her record against teenagers this year to 5-0 (Zhuk and Bouzkova at WTA 125k Newport

Beach, Zhuk at Indian Wells and Swan at Eastbourne)

Faces No.108 Azarenka today for the first time in her career – has never lost to an opponent outside the Top 100 at

WTA level (5-0)

This is her third QF appearance at WTA level – also Miami and Monterrey. Is 1-1 in QF matches

One of two US players in QF action at 2018 San Jose from 12 that begun the singles main draw (also V.Williams)

Season


In other grass court outings, reached R16 at Eastbourne (l. Kerber) and fell 1r at Mallorca (l. Peterson); posted career-high ranking of No.39 on June 11, 2018

On clay, posted 2r showings at Rome (as qualifier, l. Kasatkina) and Strasbourg (l. Q.Wang) and fell 1r at Madrid (as qualifier, l. Sasnovich) and Roland Garros (l. Wozniacki)


Became first qualifier to reach Miami SF (l. Ostapenko), scoring first Top 10 win over V.Williams en route. Earned USD$327,965 by reaching the last four at Key Biscayne, more than doubling her career earnings at the time

Posted first tour-level wins during R16 run at Indian Wells (l. Suárez Navarro), where she scored her first Top 50 win over No.15 Keys in 2r

Made QF run at WTA 125k Series event at Indian Wells (l. eventual champion Errani). At the time, defeat of No.56 Linette in 2r was best win by-rank of career, and second Top 100 (after d. No.98 Voegele 2016 New Haven qualifying)




Career









Grand Slam History




Other Information






MATCH NOTES

[3] VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #14) vs. MARIA SAKKARI (GRE #49)

Head to Head: VENUS WILLIAMS leads 2-0

2017 HARD O R3 VENUS WILLIAMS 75 mins6-3 6-4 US OPEN

2016 GRASS O R2 VENUS WILLIAMS 144 mins7-5 4-6 6-3 WIMBLEDON

VENUS WILLIAMS

14

43

17-06-1980 (38)

$822,789

$40,723,278

0 / 49

0 / 22

13-8 / 771-229

6-4 / 175-109

2-2 / 128-91

MARIA SAKKARI

49

71

25-07-1995 (23)

$512,523

$1,452,151

0 / 0

0 / 0

2-0

15-14 / 36-43

2-6 / 10-18

4-1 / 11-6

WTA RANKING


DATE OF BIRTH (AGE)

YTD PRIZE MONEY

CAREER PRIZE MONEY



SAN JOSE W-L (MD) *






34-11

8-7 / 19-24 10-4 / 460-132

1-1 / 71-15 1-1 / 2-3

0-0 / 134-97 1-0 / 2-4

2-2 / 232-143 3-5 / 4-12





[3] VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #14)

R16: d. HEATHER WATSON (GBR #133) 6-4,4-6,6-0 (1h48)

R32: BYE


Vs.

MARIA SAKKARI (GRE #49)

R16: d. [8] TIMEA BABOS (HUN #38) 6-0,6-1 (0h55)

R32: d. CHRISTINA MCHALE (USA #97) 6-2,6-2 (1h19)

Total games: 26

Won/lost: 16-10

Sets won/lost: 2-1




Total games: 29

Won/lost: 24-5

Sets won/lost: 4-0





VENUS WILLIAMS

2016

L - JOHANNA KONTA (GBR #18) F 7-5 5-7 6-2


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V.WILLIAMS:

San Jose

Making 14th appearance at the Bay Area event, having played at the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic’s

predecessor in Stanford 13 times previously. At 38 years of age, is the oldest woman in the starting field at this

year’s tournament

Two-time champion, lifting the title in 2000 (d. Davenport in F) and 2002 (d. Clijsters in F)

In addition, finished R-Up in 1998, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2009 and 2016

Following opening round bye, struck 24 winners during a three-set win over Watson in 2r. Is now 4-1 in matches

directly following a bye this season, with sole loss coming to Kerber at Sydney

Has now reached QF or better at past four tournaments in the United States – made SF at 2017 US Open followed

by QFs at 2018 Indian Wells and 2018 Miami

Faces No.49 Sakkari today in the QF; won both previous encounters with the Greek, most recently en route to SF

at 2017 US Open


MATCH NOTES

2014

L - ANDREA PETKOVIC (GER #18) QF 6-1 3-6 7-5

2009

L - MARION BARTOLI (FRA #14) F 6-2 5-7 6-4

2005

L - KIM CLIJSTERS (BEL #14) F 7-5 6-2

2004

L - LINDSAY DAVENPORT (USA #5) F 7-6(4) 5-7 7-6(4)

2002

W - KIM CLIJSTERS (BEL #5) F 6-3 6-3

2001

L - MEGHANN SHAUGHNESSY (USA #15) QF 2-6 7-5 7-6(4)

2000

W - LINDSAY DAVENPORT (USA #2) F 6-1 6-4

1999

L - LINDSAY DAVENPORT (USA #1) F 7-6(1) 6-2

1998

L - LINDSAY DAVENPORT (USA #3) F 6-4 5-7 6-4

1996

L - BRENDA SCHULTZ-MCCARTHY (NED #12) R1 1-6 6-4 6-4

1995

L - MAGDALENA MALEEVA (BUL #7) QF 6-2 6-3

1994

L - ARANTXA SANCHEZ-VICARIO (ESP #2) R16 2-6 6-3 6-0


from

Three of eight defeats in 2018 have been against players ranked outside Top 30: No.78 Bencic (Australian Open),

No.93 Collins (Miami) and No.85 Q.Wang (Roland Garros)

Bidding for 50th career title this week. Lifted last trophy at 2016 Kaohsiung (d. Doi in F)

One of 12 American women in the main draw at 2018 San Jose – of the 46 previous editions of the event, it has

been won on 24 occasions by a women from USA

Season

Reached 3r of Wimbledon in only appearance on grass this year (l. Bertens)

Ended clay court season with 1r exit at Roland Garros (l. Q.Wang)

In other outings on clay, reached R16 at Rome (l. Kontaveit) and fell 1r at Madrid (l. Kontaveit in 3s)

Advanced to QF at Miami (l. qualifier Collins); had saved 3mp vs. Bertens in 3r

Miami run followed SF effort at Indian Wells (l. Kasatkina). Defeated S.Williams in 3r – now trails

head-to-head record with sister 17-12

Winnings at Indian Wells took her career total past $40 million – S.Williams ($84 million) is the only other

player to pass this milestone

Opened the year with back-to-back opening match losses at Sydney (after 1r bye, l. eventual champion

Kerber) and the Australian Open (l. Bencic)

In February, went 2-0 in singles representing USA in Fed Cup action vs. Netherlands (d. Rus, Hogenkamp)

Also teamed with sister Serena at Fed Cup for her first competitive match back since giving birth in

September 2017 (in dead doubles rubber l. Kerkhove/Schuurs)

Grand Slam History 2018 Wimbledon marked 79th Grand Slam main draw appearance – the Open Era record, ahead of Frazier (71),

Schiavone (70), S.Williams (68) and Navratilova (67)

Is a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion, winning Wimbledon five times: 2000-01 2005 and 2007-08.

Also won US Open in 2000 (d. Davenport in F) and 2001 (d. S.Williams in F)

In addition, a nine-time Grand Slam R-Up across all four majors: Wimbledon (2002-03, 2009 and 2017), US Open

(1997, 2002), Roland Garros (2002) and Australian Open (2003, 2017)

The span between her maiden Grand Slam final at the US Open in 1997 and last year’s Wimbledon is the longest in

Open Era history:

PLAYER YEARS

Venus Williams 1997-2017 Martina Navratilova 1975-1994

Serena Williams 1999-2017 Chris Evert 1973-1988

2017 Australian Open final vs. Serena marked first Slam title bout in seven and half years (2009 Wimbledon – l.

S.Williams). In the Open Era, no player has waited so long to reach another Grand Slam final – Mauresmo waited

seven years between finishing R-Up at 1999 Australian Open and winning 2006 Australian Open. Also, at 36 years

of age, became oldest finalist at the Australian Open in the Open Era

Title match at 2016 Australian Open between Venus and Serena was the oldest combined age of any Grand

Slam final match-up in the Open Era (71 years, and 351 days), beating the previous record set by Flavia Pennetta

and Roberta Vinci (66 years, 19 days) at the 2015 US Open

Owns 14 Grand Slam doubles titles (all w/S.Williams), most recently winning 2016 Wimbledon. Haul includes two US

Opens (1999, 2009)

In mixed doubles, won Australian Open (w/Gimelstob) and Roland Garros (w/Gimelstob, d. S.Willams/Lobo in F) in

1998

Career

Ended 2017 season as runner-up at WTA Finals (l. Wozniacki). Oldest player to ever reach the title bout at the season

finale

Reached two other finals in 2017, at Australian Open (l. S.Williams) and Wimbledon (l. Muguruza)– only player

last season to reach two Grand Slam finals

Returned to Top 10 in WTA Rankings by reaching Wimbledon final. Is the third oldest player to rank in Top 10

in WTA history behind Billie Jean King (September 26, 1983 – 39 years, 322 days) and Martina Navratilova

(December 26, 1994 - 38 years, 75 days)

2016 season highlights including winning 49th career singles title at Kaohsiung (d. Doi), and reaching 80th

career singles final at Stanford (l. Konta). Is fifth‐oldest player to win a WTA singles title, behind Billie Jean

King (39) at 1983 Birmingham, Kimiko Date (38) at 2009 Seoul, Martina Navratilova (37) at 1994 Paris

[Indoors] and Francesca Schiavone (36) at 2017 Bogotá

With 49 titles, currently 11th on list of Open Era titleholders, chasing Monica Seles (53 titles)

At Grand Slam level in 2016, advanced to SF at Wimbledon (l. Kerber) which was first time reaching that stage at

a major since 2010 US Open. Also reached R16 at 2016 Roland Garros (l. Bacsinszky) and 2016 US Open (l.

eventual R‐Up Ka.Pliskova)

Represented USA at Rio Olympics, falling 1r in singles (l. Flipkens), 1r in doubles (w/S.Williams, l. eventual

bronze medalists Safarova/Strycova) and winning a silver medal in the mixed doubles (w/Ram, l.

Mattek‐Sands/Sock)

Returned to Top 10 for first time since March 2011 following victory in final of the 2015 WTA Elite Trophy

Was diagnosed with Sjögrens Syndrome in 2011, missing the end of that season and start of 2012

Won singles gold medal at 2000 Sydney Olympics (d. Dementieva in F); has won doubles gold three times with

sister Serena, at Sydney, Beijing and London

Spent 11 weeks at world No.1 in singles (first ascended to top spot week of February 25, 2002) and topped the

doubles rankings for eight weeks in 2010

Made WTA main draw debut at Oakland in 1994; as unranked WC, defeated Stafford in 1r before falling to

then‐world No.2 Sánchez Vicario in three sets

Other Information

Owns interior design company, VStarr Interiors. Also set up clothing line called EleVen, designing her own

on-court outfits

In 2015 received Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Indiana University East

Coached by Richard Williams, Oracene Price and David Witt

SAKKARI:

San Jose

Contesting the Bay Area event for the first time in her career, having never previously played the Mubadala Silicon

Valley Classic’s predecessor in Stanford

1r win over McHale here on Monday snapped four-match losing streak – began with 3r loss at Roland Garros (l.

Kasatkina) and stretched to Birmingham (Goerges), Eastbourne (Kuznetsova) and Wimbledon (l. Kenin)

Saw off Babos in under an hour in 2r to reach fifth tour-level QF of career

Bidding to reach third WTA SF, having made it that far at 2017 Wuhan and 2018 Istanbul (both on hard courts)

During North American hard court swing last year, fell in qualifying at New Haven and reached 3r at US Open (l.

V.Williams)

Season

Entered 2018 San Jose on a four-match losing streak, which began with 3r loss at Roland Garros (l. Kasatkina)

and stretched to Birmingham (Goerges), Eastbourne (Kuznetsova) and Wimbledon (l. Kenin)

3r run at Roland Garros marked joint-best result at a Slam, and best result in Paris. Has now reached 3r at all

four Majors – also 2017 Australian Open (l. Lucic-Baroni), 2017 Wimbledon (l. Konta) and 2017 US Open (l.

V.Williams)

Rose to a new career-high ranking after Roland Garros at No.33 (June 11, 2018)

Entered Paris after 3r run at Rome – d. No.15 Bertens and No.5 Ka.Pliskova before falling to No.12 Kerber

Defeat of No.5 Ka.Pliskova in Rome 2r was first career Top 5 win

Had 1r exit in Madrid (l. eventual runner-up Bertens)

Reached SF in Istanbul (l. Hercog), her first semifinal appearance of 2018 and first since 2017 Wuhan

Made 3r at Miami. Upset a pair of opponents ranked above her, No.49 Krunic in 1r and No.28 Kontaveit in 2r; run

helped her return to Top 50

Enjoyed a R16 run at Indian Wells (l. Osaka in 3s – was the only player to take a set off eventual champion)

Defeats of No.21 Barty and No.17 Vandeweghe in Indian Wells are third and fourth best wins rankings-wise of career

(after overcoming No.6 Wozniacki at 2017 Wuhan and No.5 Ka.Pliskova at 2018 Rome)

Made 2r exit at Acapulco (l. eventual R-Up Voegele). 1r defeat of Arruabarrena was first main draw win of 2018

During Middle Eastern swing, made 1r exit at Doha (l. Cirstea) and fell in Dubai qualifying

Began 2018 season with 1r exit at Shenzhen (l. Kovinic) followed by 1r qualifying defeat at Sydney (l. Cepede Royg). Fell

in 1r at Australian Open (l. Siniakova) and St. Petersburg (l. Goerges)

Career

Registered second-consecutive Top 100 year-end finish in 2017, finishing at No.52 – the highest year-end finish by a

Greek player since Daniilidou in 2007 (No.43) and the only Greek player to record a Top 100 finish in the last seven

years (since No.90 Daniilidou in 2011)

Notched a then-career best win and first Top 10 victory of career over No.6 Wozniacki en route to first WTA SF of

career at 2017 Wuhan Open – became just second qualifier to reach Premier-level SF in 2017 (Mertens at New Haven)

Enjoyed a career-best year at the majors, progressing to 3r for first time on three different occasions: Australian Open

(l. Lucic Baroni), Wimbledon (l. Konta) and US Open (l. V.Williams)

Broke into Top 50 for first time at No.49 on October 9, 2017

Reached first career WTA QF at 2016 Istanbul after qualifying to enter main draw (l. Kovinic) – at the time, achieved

best win‐by‐ranking defeating No.34 Schmiedlova in 1r

Elsewhere, played mainly ITF for first half of 2016 season, falling in qualifying at Brisbane, Hobart, Rio de Janeiro,

Monterrey, Indian Wells, Madrid and Roland Garros before making 2r at Wimbledon main draw (d. S.Zheng, l.

V.Williams in 3s). After Wimbledon, only other main draw win in 2016 came in 2r showing at Tashkent (d. Schmiedlova,

l. Flipkens)

Also played main draw again at 2016 Gstaad (l. Kontaveit in 1r), New Haven (as qualifier. L. Rodina 1r), Tokyo [Japan

Open] (l. Putintseva), Seoul (l. S.Zhang) and Hong Kong (l. World No.1 Kerber)

Opened 2016 by falling in qualifying at Brisbane and Hobart and 2r 2016 Australian Open (posted first Grand Slam

main draw win vs. Y.Wang, l. Suarez Navarro)

Owns seven ITF Circuit singles titles and five in doubles

Made WTA qualifying debut at 2012 Palermo

Made debut on ITF Circuit in 2010 at $10k ITF/Mytilino‐GRE. Owns seven singles and five doubles titles on ITF Circuit

Grand Slam History

2018 Wimbledon marked 11th Grand Slam main draw appearance

Has reached 3r at all four of the majors – at 2017 Australian Open (l. Lucic-Baroni), 2017 Wimbledon (l. Konta), 2017

US Open (l. V.Williams) and 2018 Roland Garros (l. Kasatkina)

3r run at 2017 Australian Open saw her become first Greek woman to reach the 3r at a Slam since Daniilidou at 2005

Wimbledon (l. Pennetta)

At 2016 Australian Open, reaching 2r, (d. Y.Wang, l. Suárez Navarro) became the first woman from Greece to win a

main draw match at a Slam since Daniilidou d. Ka.Pliskova at 2013 Australian Open

At all Grand Slams, Daniilidou reached R16 at 2002 Wimbledon, 2003 Australian Open and 2004 US Open

Other Information

Coached by former ATP pro Thomas Johansson

Born and grew up in Athens, Greece, before moving to Barcelona aged 18 – has trained there for two years

Mother, Angeliki Kanellopoulou, was tennis player too, however didn’t start because of her – just liked the sport. Tried

karate and gymnastics but was thrown out of class for laughing too much

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MUBADALA SILICON VALLEY CLASSIC – DAY 4 (THURSDAY)

Stadium [5] MIHAELA BUZARNESCU (ROU #24) vs. [Q] AMANDA ANISIMOVA (USA #198)

First meeting Buzarnescu playing 21st tournament of 2018… Anisimova bidding to be first qualifier to reach QF at

the tournament since 2014… The Romanian has won past 25 matches against players outside Top 100

MARIA SAKKARI (GRE #49) vs. [8] TIMEA BABOS (HUN #38) First meeting

Both players snapped losing streaks with first-round wins here… Sakkari attempting to reach fifth WTA QF… Babos has 15 hard court wins to her name in 2018, including title run at Taipei City

AJLA TOMLJANOVIC (AUS #65) vs. [2] MADISON KEYS (USA #12)

Keys leads 2-1 Keys won when the two met in first round at this year’s Wimbledon… Tomljanovic playing fourth

tournament in California of 2018… Keys aiming to become 10th player to defend title here

[3] VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #14) vs. HEATHER WATSON (GBR #133) Williams leads 1-0

Williams won only previous encounter at 2014 Beijing… Watson owns eight career Top 20 victories… Williams is an eight-time finalist at the tournament

WTA TV – LIVE ACTION FROM SAN JOSE Every main draw match from San Jose is LIVE and ON DEMAND on wtatv.com. Catch the action at home or on the go. You won’t want to miss a minute of this year’s star-studded lineup in both singles and doubles. Want to watch multiple matches at once? On WTA TV, you can watch up to four matches simultaneously via the multibox.

ON THIS DAY: AUGUST 2, 1996 Lindsay Davenport upsets No.2 seed Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 7-6 6-2 to win the gold medal at the Atlanta Olympic Games. Davenport, whose father Wink was part of the US volleyball team in 1968, said afterwards: “This means everything for me. No matter what else happens in the rest of my life, I’ll always be a gold medalist.”

THE AMERICAN DREAM Defending champion Madison Keys and eight-time finalist Venus Williams begin their campaigns on Thursday, aiming to continue the fine record of American women in the Bay Area. In the 46 previous editions of the tournament, at least one American has appeared in the final on 35 occasions, going on to lift the title 24 times.

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MUBADALA SILICON VALLEY CLASSIC – DAY 3 (WEDNESDAY)

Stadium [WC] ASHLEY KRATZER (USA #251) vs. [4] ELISE MERTENS (BEL #15)

First meeting Kratzer playing Top 50 opponent for the first time… Mertens bidding for 33rd win of the season…

American teenager is one of four players outside Top 100 to reach second round

DANIELLE COLLINS (USA #42) vs. VERA LAPKO (BLR #69) First meeting

Collins own 4-0 record against teenagers in 2018… Lapko bidding to reach third career QF… Twelve months ago, both players were ranked well outside Top 100

JOHANNA KONTA (GBR #48) vs. SOFIA KENIN (USA #68)

First meeting Kenin facing a British opponent for first time… Konta inflicted heaviest career defeat on Serena

Williams’ in opening round… Kenin fresh from title run on ITF Circuit

[1] GARBIÑE MUGURUZA (ESP #7) vs. VICTORIA AZARENKA (BLR #108) Azarenka leads 1-0

Azarenka won sole career meeting, in two tie-break sets en route to 2016 Miami title… Muguruza playing first match since shock Wimbledon exit… Azarenka battled past Bondarenko in first round

Hard to beat… Victoria Azarenka’s first-round win other fellow mother on tour Kateryna Bondarenko improved her career hard court record to 289-89 – an impressive win percentage of .765. Only three active players own a better record on cement than the Belarusian:

Serena Williams 483-78 (.861) Maria Sharapova 351-98 (.782) Venus Williams 459-132 (.777)



MATCH NOTES

[WC] ASHLEY KRATZER (USA #251) vs. [4] ELISE MERTENS (BEL #15)


ASHLEY KRATZER

251

230

08-02-1999 (19)

$21,629

$98,400

0 / 0

0 / 0

1-0 / 1-1

1-0 / 1-0

0-0 / 0-0

ELISE MERTENS

15

11

17-11-1995 (22)

$1,508,500

$2,304,740

3 / 4

3 / 5

0-0

32-12 / 67-36

8-3 / 22-11

5-5 / 12-13

WTA RANKING


DATE OF BIRTH (AGE)

YTD PRIZE MONEY

CAREER PRIZE MONEY



SAN JOSE W-L (MD) *






1-0

12-6 / 30-18 1-0 / 1-1

0-0 / 0-0 4-0 / 5-0

0-0 / 0-0 1-3 / 2-6

0-0 / 0-0 1-5 / 4-16




* Updated entering 2018 San Jose 2r

[WC] ASHLEY KRATZER (USA #251)

R32: d. ALISON RISKE (USA #67) 6-4,4-6,7-5 (2h09)

ROAD TO THE SECOND ROUND

vs.


R32: BYE

Total games: 32

Won/lost: 17-15

Sets won/lost: 2-1




Total games: 0

Won/lost: 0-0

Sets won/lost: 0-0





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KRATZER:

San Jose



Received one of four wildcards (also Liu, Muguruza and V.Williams)

Aged 19, is one of four teenagers to reach 2r (also Anisimova, 16, Kenin, 19, and Lapko, 19)

Faces World No.15 Mertens in 2r today; best career win was over No.62 Kozlova in qualifying for 2018 Indian Wells

Registered first tour-level victory on Monday, withstanding a final set fightback to upset Riske in 1r

Is one of four players ranked outside Top 100 to reach 2r this week (also No.198 Anisimova, No.108 Azarenka and

No.133 Watson)

Season

Coming off back-to-back appearance on ITF Circuit; made SF at $60k ITF/Berkley, CA-USA (l. eventual R-Up Gibbs) and

fell 1r at $60k ITF/Honolulu, HI-USA (l. Pegula)

Played seven clay court events, all on home soil on ITF Circuit. Highlights were R-Up finish at $25k ITF/Naples, FL-USA

(l. Gibbs) and SFs at $25k ITF/Osprey, FL-USA (l. Chang) and $25k ITF/Bethany Beach, DE-USA (l. Stewart)

Fell in qualifying at both Indian Wells and Monterrey

Began season by contesting qualifying at WTA 125k Series event at Newport Beach. Also made 1r exit at WTA 125k

Series event at Indian Wells (l. Hsieh)

Career

Ended 2017 ranked No.307 (up from No.537 in 2016)

Posted 36-22 record across 2017 season, highlighted by R-Up finish at $60k ITF/Stockton, CA-USA (l. Kenin) and Grand

Slam debut at US Open (l. Maria in 1r)

Highest-ranked opponent faced to date is No.61 Maria at 2017 US Open

Reached three singles finals on ITF Circuit

Played first match on ITF Circuit in 2014, contesting qualifying at $25k ITF/Rancho Santa Fe, CA-USA

Grand Slam History

Made Grand Slam main draw debut at 2017 US Open (as WC, l. Maria in straight sets)

Other Information

Born in Newport Beach, California

Favorite surface is hard

Coached by Anibal Aranda

MERTENS:

San Jose



After 1r bye, faces No.251 Kratzer today; loss would be worst in terms of ranking since falling to No.279 Flink at

$50K ITF/Tampico-MEX in 2016

Bidding for 33rd win of 2018. Only Kerber (39), Kvitova (38) and Halep (37) own more wins this season

Seeded No.4 this week – her highest seeding at a Premier-level tournament (previously No.7 at 2018 Birmingham)

Made Top 15 debut at No.15 (current ranking) after Roland Garros; last year began US hard court swing on a

ranking of No.47

Ranks fifth on tour for both percentage of return points won (47.8%) and return games won (44.8%)

Season
























Career












Luxembourg



(w/Schuurs)




Grand Slam History









Other Information



in Paris




Was home schooled


MATCH NOTES

DANIELLE COLLINS (USA #42) vs. VERA LAPKO (BLR #69)


DANIELLE COLLINS

42

29

13-12-1993 (24)

$639,126

$803,852

0 / 0

0 / 0

14-10 / 14-13

7-1 / 7-2

2-2 / 3-2

VERA LAPKO

69

70

29-09-1998 (19)

$189,707

$302,212

0 / 0

0 / 0

1-0

6-5 / 8-8

2-3 / 2-5

3-1 / 3-2

WTA RANKING


DATE OF BIRTH (AGE)

YTD PRIZE MONEY

CAREER PRIZE MONEY



SAN JOSE W-L (MD) *






1-0

1-1 / 3-3 10-3 / 10-6

1-1 / 1-1 0-1 / 0-1

1-2 / 1-3 0-0 / 0-0

3-5 / 3-6 0-2 / 0-2








vs.

VERA LAPKO (BLR #69)

R32: d. [7] SHUAI ZHANG (CHN #32) 7-6(2),6-0 (1h29)

Total games: 22

Won/lost: 13-9

Sets won/lost: 2-0




Total games: 19

Won/lost: 13-6

Sets won/lost: 2-0





from

COLLINS:

San Jose




Overcame qualifier Lao in 1r – the 14th main draw win of her career, all coming in 2018

Faces 19-year-old Lapko in 2r today; owns 4-0 record against teenagers in 2018 (Zhuk and Bouzkova at WTA 125k

Newport Beach, Zhuk at Indian Wells, Swan at Eastbourne)

One of six US players in 2r action at 2018 San Jose from 12 that begun the singles main draw (also Anisimova, Kenin,

Keys, Kratzer and V.Williams)

Season


In other grass court outings, reached R16 at Eastbourne (l. Kerber) and fell 1r at Mallorca (l. Peterson); posted career-high ranking of No.39 on June 11, 2018

On clay, posted 2r showings at Rome (as qualifier, l. Kasatkina) and Strasbourg (l. Q.Wang) and fell 1r at Madrid (as qualifier, l. Sasnovich) and Roland Garros (l. Wozniacki)


Became first qualifier to reach Miami SF (l. Ostapenko), scoring first Top 10 win over V.Williams en route. Earned USD$327,965 by reaching the last four at Key Biscayne, more than doubling her career earnings at the time

Posted first tour-level wins during R16 run at Indian Wells (l. Suárez Navarro), where she scored her first Top 50 win over No.15 Keys in 2r

Made QF run at WTA 125k Series event at Indian Wells (l. eventual champion Errani). At the time, defeat of No.56 Linette in 2r was best win by-rank of career, and second Top 100 (after d. No.98 Voegele 2016 New Haven qualifying)




Career









Grand Slam History




Other Information





LAPKO:

San Jose



In 1r on Tuesday, upset No.32 Zhang – her third career win over a Top 50 player (also No.22 Gavrilova at 2017 Moscow and No.28 Kontaveit at 2018 Lugano)

Heading into today’s match against US No.6 Collins, owns 4-1 record against US players in 2018, most recently beating McHale at Wimbledon

Bidding to reach third WTA QF of career (also 2017 Moscow – QF and 2018 Lugano – SF)

Enters 2018 San Jose ranked at a career-high No.69 (first posted July 23, 2018). Twelve months ago, was ranked No.241 and playing at $60k ITF/Lexington, KY-USA

Season

Reached 2r on Grand Slam main draw debut at Wimbledon (l. Goerges in 3s)

Went 3-3 on grass in lead-up to Wimbledon, reaching 2r at Nottingham (l. Vekic), 2r of qualifying at Birmingham (l. Perrin) and QF at $100k ITF/Southsea-GBR (l. Flipkens)

Fell in qualifying at Roland Garros (l. Andreescu)

Before heading to Roland Garros, won back-to-back ITF Circuit titles at $100k ITF/Khimki-RUS (d. Potapova in F) and $60k ITF/St Gaudens-RUS (d. Lemoine in F)

On red clay, broke through to first WTA SF at Lugano, defeating No.28 Kontaveit en route for career-best win to date (l. Mertens). Also reached doubles final at Lugano (w/Sabalenka, l. Flipkens/Mertens)

Successfully qualified at Charleston, before ret. vs. Buzarnescu in 1r w/left knee injury

Began 2018 with losses in tour qualifying at Brisbane, Australian Open, St Petersburg, Budapest, Indian Wells and Miami. Also fell in qualifying at WTA 125k Series event at Indian Wells

Career

In 2017, rose from No.320 to No.131, her year culminating in a maiden WTA quarterfinal run in Moscow – where she held a match point before losing to Begu

Member of Belarus Fed Cup team that advanced to maiden final in 2017, against USA in Minsk

Two-times doubles R-Up, at 2016 Guangzhou (w/Govortsova) and 2018 Lugano (w/Sabalenka)

Set career-high ranking of No.69 on July 23, 2018

Owns six ITF Circuit titles in singles and seven in doubles

Made WTA main draw debut at 2016 Katowice (as WC, l. Kulichkova in 1r)

Won first ITF Circuit title at 2015 $10k ITF/Sharm El Sheik (d. Vondrousova in F)

Played first professional matches on ITF Circuit in 2014, qualifying at $10k ITF/Antalya-TUR and reaching SF at $25k ITF/Minsk-BLR

Former junior World No.1

Grand Slam History

Making Grand Slam main draw debut at 2018 Wimbledon (l. Goerges in 2r)

Fell in Grand Slam qualifying at 2017 Australian Open, 2017 US Open, 2018 Australian Open and 2018 Roland Garros

In juniors, won the girls' singles title at the 2016 Australian Open (d. doubles partner Mihalikova in F) and in doubles was R-Up (both w/Mihalikova) at US Open in 2014 and Wimbledon in 2015

Other Information

Started playing tennis at age 5

Mother, Elena is an engineer; her late father Valery was a builder; has a brother, Nikita

Supports Liverpool FC

Coached by Vladimir Kruk


MATCH NOTES

JOHANNA KONTA (GBR #48) vs. SOFIA KENIN (USA #68)


JOHANNA KONTA

48

36

17-05-1991 (27)

$584,201

$6,721,524

0 / 3

0 / 0

18-15 / 120-78

2-7 / 25-37

4-3 / 27-19

SOFIA KENIN

68

68

14-11-1998 (19)

$310,924

$646,523

0 / 0

0 / 0

1-0

10-9 / 13-14

4-3 / 6-3

1-0 / 2-0

WTA RANKING


DATE OF BIRTH (AGE)

YTD PRIZE MONEY

CAREER PRIZE MONEY



SAN JOSE W-L (MD) *






5-0

6-4 / 8-7 9-7 / 79-40

0-3 / 10-10 1-1 / 1-2

0-6 / 14-15 1-2 / 1-2

3-7 / 28-24 2-5 / 2-6





JOHANNA KONTA (GBR #48)

R32: d. [6] SERENA WILLIAMS (USA #26) 6-1,6-0 (0h51)


vs.

SOFIA KENIN (USA #68)

R32: d. VERONICA CEPEDE ROYG (PAR #125) 6-4,6-4 (1h34)

Total games: 13

Won/lost: 12-1

Sets won/lost: 2-0




Total games: 20

Won/lost: 12-8

Sets won/lost: 2-0





JOHANNA KONTA

2016

W - VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #7) F 7-5 5-7 6-2


from

KONTA:

San Jose

Prior to inaugural event here in San Jose, made one appearance at tournament’s predecessor in Stanford in

2016, where she went on to lift her debut WTA title (d. V.Williams in F)As a result, she became the first British

woman to reach final of a Premier event since WTA Roadmap was introduced in 2009, and first British woman to

win the tournament since Barker in 1977 (when it was held in San Francisco)

In 1r match, dispatched three-time champion S.Williams 6-1 6-0. Was Serena’s heaviest defeat of her career

(only occasion she has failed to win more than one game in a match) and first time losing a set-to-love since

2014 WTA Finals (lost 6-0 6-2 to Halep)

Is first British woman to defeat Serena – Konta fell to her at 2017 Australian Open (QF), Watson at 2015

Wimbledon (3r) and Robson at 2013 Rome (2r)

Faces No.68 Kenin today – has lost to players her rank-or-lower at four events this season, to No.123 Pera

(Australian Open), No.219 Stollar (Charleston), No.97 Pera (Madrid) and No.97 Putintseva (Roland Garros)

Contesting doubles this fortnight w/Zhang Shuai – team dispatched Cako/Geuer in 1r and face

Buzarnescu/Watson in 2r

One of two representatives of Great Britain to begin singles main draw – also Watson (who defeated Liu in 1r

and faces V.Williams on Thursday)

Enjoyed mixed results during 2017 US hardcourt swing – lost opening match at Toronto (l. Makarova), reached

QF of Cincinnati (l. eventual R-Up Halep) and suffered 1r exit at US Open (l. Krunic)

Season

Contesting first event since 2r exit at Wimbledon (l. Cibulkova), having reached SF at All England Club in 2017

Reached sixth WTA singles final of career at Nottingham (l. Barty) before making 1r exit at Birmingham (l.

eventual champion Kvitova) and reaching 3r at home event of Eastbourne (l. Wozniacki)

In 2017, posted the best win-loss record on grass across tour-level events (13-3), including a runner-up finish at

Nottingham (l. Vekic), and SF runs at Eastbourne (l. Ka.Pliskova) and Wimbledon (l. V.Williams)

Fell 1r at Roland Garros (l. Putintseva)

Reached R16 at Rome (l. Ostapenko in 3s) after 1r exit at Madrid (l. Pera)

Reached QF in doubles at Madrid (d. No.4 seeds Xu/Dabrowski in R16 before falling to Klepac/Martinez Sanchez)

Fell in 2r at Charleston (after 1r bye, l. Stollar)

Enjoyed a good run of form as the defending champion at Miami, where she reached R16 (l. V.Williams in 3s). Hit

50 winners across opening two matches, against Belgium’s Flipkens and Mertens, to reach R16

Made 2r exit at Indian Wells (after 1r bye, l. Vondrousova)

Finished the Middle East swing with 3-2 record, reaching R16 at Doha (l. Kerber) before a 2r exit at Dubai (l.

Kasatkina)

Won all three singles rubbers to help Great Britain advance from Europe/Africa Zone Group I and set up a World

Group II play-off against Japan in April

Made 2r exit at Australian Open, falling to No.123-ranked lucky loser Pera – worst loss by ranking since falling to

No.164 Torró-Flor at 2015 $50k ITF/Saint-Gaudens-FRA

Made 2r exit at Sydney (as defending champion, l. A.Radwanska)

Opened 2017 season by reaching QF at Brisbane (l. eventual champion Svitolina). Was two points from victory in

second set against Svitolina before retiring with a right hip injury midway through third set

Win over Keys in 1r at Brisbane broke five-match losing streak carried over from 2017

Career

Enjoyed best season of career in 2017, posting career-high season finish of No.9 (second Top 10 season in a

row). Peaked in rankings at No.4 on July 17, 2017

Began 2017 season in great form by lifting title at Sydney (d. A.Radwanska in F), before landing biggest title of

career at Premier-Mandatory Miami (d. Wozniacki in F)

At 2017 Wimbledon became first British player since Virginia Wade in 1978 to reach Wimbledon SF (l. R-Up

V.Williams). Had previously won just one match from five previous visits to All England Club, in 2016 (d. Puig, l.

Bouchard in 2r)

Reached third final of 2017 season at Nottingham (l. Vekic)

Overall record in WTA finals now stands at 3-3

Also in 2017, reached SF for second year in a row at home event of Eastbourne – conceded walkover to eventual

champion Ka.Pliskova, having sustained a thoracic spine injury during her QF defeat of World No.1 Kerber (fell

heavily on match point, but won match after treatment). Match against Kerber was second of day, after she

defeated Roland Garros champion Ostapenko in R16

With win over Kerber, became first British woman to defeat a reigning World No.1 since Barker d. Chris Evert at

1979 Boston

Was in contention for WTA Finals qualification in 2017, however withdrawal from Moscow opened spot for

Garcia

Career record vs. Top 5 stands at 5-8; wins coming over No.2 Halep at 2015 Wuhan, No.3 A.Radwanska at 2017

Sydney, No.5 Halep at 2017 Miami, No.1 Kerber at 2017 Eastbourne and No.2 Halep at Wimbledon

Posted first Top 10 season in 2016, at No.10

Ended 2016 season at WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai in November (went 2‐0 in round‐robin play), fell in SF (l.

Svitolina)

Reached first Premier mandatory final of career at 2016 Beijing (l. A.Radwanska)

Alternate for WTA Finals in Singapore, narrowly missing qualification in the Top 8; was not called upon to play a

match

By virtue of reaching 2016 Beijing final, made WTA Top 10 debut – first British woman to feature in the elite

group since Durie in 1984, and the fourth British woman overall to do so (also Wade and Barker). Became 119th

woman to break into the Top 10, and the fourth to do so in 2016 after Vinci, Bencic and Keys

Won career‐first singles title at 2016 Stanford in maiden final (d. V.Williams in F). First British woman to reach

final of a Premier event since WTA Roadmap was introduced in 2009, and first British woman to win the

tournament since Barker in 1977 (when it was held in San Francisco)

Broke into Top 20 on June 6, 2016 (at No.18) – first British woman in Top 20 for nearly 30 years (the week of

October 13, 1986, with Durie at No.20)

Was voted WTA Most Improved Player in 2016 by international media and fans

Played first events of career on ITF Circuit in 2006, making WTA main draw debut at 2011 Copenhagen (as

qualifier, l. 1r)

Grand Slam History


Is a two-time Grand Slam semifinalist. Made Slam breakthrough with historic run to SF at 2016 Australian Open

(l. eventual champion Kerber); first British woman to reach the last four at Melbourne Park since Sue Barker in

December 1977, and at any Grand Slam since Jo Durie at 1983 US Open

Has since reached SF at 2017 Wimbledon (l. R-Up V.Williams), becoming the first British woman to reach the last

four since Virginia Wade in 1978 (l. Evert)

Also made QF at Australian Open in 2017 (l. eventual champion S.Williams), while at US Open has twice reached

R16, in 2015 (l. Kvitova) and 2016 (l. Sevastova)

At Roland Garros has never been beyond 1r, falling at the first hurdle in 2015-18

Other Information

Was introduced to the sport at age eight by parents; started to play at an after‐school care program

Born in Sydney, Australia; became a British citizen in May 2012. Parents are Gabor (hotelier) and Gabriella

(dentist); older sister is Eva (works in fashion)

Grandfather Tamas Kertesz played football for the Hungarian ‘Golden Team’ with Ferenc Puskas in 1955

Currently coached by Michael Joyce, having parted ways with Wim Fissette at end of 2017 season

KENIN:

San Jose



Contesting week of San Jose only four spots off career-high ranking of No.64 (July 16, 2018)

One of 12 American women to begin singles main draw – six of whom have progressed to 2r

In 1r, broke Cepede Royg four times in straight-sets win to set up 2r clash with Konta – first time facing Great British

opposition in her career

Is currently on a six-match winning streak – coming off capturing fourth ITF title of career at $60k ITF/Berkley,CA-USA

(five matches) in addition to 1r win over Cepede Royg on Monday

A run to the SF would match career-best win streak (eight), which came in 2017 with title run at $60k

ITF/Stockton,CA-USA (five wins) followed by a SF run at $60k ITF/Sacramento, CA-USA (three wins)

Bidding today to reach third tour-level QF of season – all of which have come in 2018 (Auckland QF, Mallorca SF)

Season

Coming off title run at $60k ITF/Berkley,CA-USA (d. Gibbs in F)

Enjoyed successful grass swing, reaching first WTA SF of career at Mallorca (as qualifier l. eventual R-Up Maria) and

making Wimbledon main draw debut (d. Sakkari, l. Ditachenko in 2r)

Went 0-5 during clay swing suffering opening match losses at Charleston (l. Barty), Madrid qualifying (l. Linette), Rome

qualifying (l. Kanepi), Strasbourg (l. Stosur) and Roland Garros (l. Osaka)

Made a 3r exit in Miami (l. Kvitova) after achieving her best win-by-rank of her career, a three-set win over No.11

Kasatkina in 2r. Preceded by a 2r showing at Indian Wells (as qualifier, l. Zhang)

Made 2r at WTA 125K Series event held at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden (l. Wickmayer)

Also contested WTA 125K Series tournament at Newport Beach (l. Jang in 1r). Lost 2r at $100k ITF/Midland, MI-USA in

February

Fell 1r on Australian Open debut – first direct acceptance at a major – losing to No.12 Goerges in straight sets

Started season by reaching maiden WTA QF at Auckland (l. eventual R-Up Wozniacki)

Career

Compiled 47-28 record (all levels) in 2017, finishing at a career-high No.113

Reached 3r at 2017 US Open as wildcard (l. Sharapova), after winning the US Open Wild Card Challenge. Posted

the first Top 50 win of her career during Flushing Meadows run against No.34 Davis

Also in 2017, won $60k ITF/Stockton, CA-USA, finished R-Up at $60k ITF/Lexington, KY-USA and reached SF at $60k

ITF/Sacramento, CA-USA

In other tour-level appearances in 2017, made 2r at Québec City (l. Safarova) and fell 1r at Charleston (as qualifier,

l. Mattek-Sands)

Closed year strongly by reaching SF at three consecutive ITF Circuit events: $80k ITF/Tyler, TX-USA, $80k ITF/Waco,

TX-USA and $25k ITF/Norman, OK-USA

Fell in qualifying at Indian Wells, Roland Garros, Mallorca, Wimbledon, New Haven and Cincinnati

Ended 2016 season ranked No.212 (up from No.620 in 2015)

Played 2016 US Open as a wildcard, granted for winning USTA Pro Circuit US Open wildcard challenge

In 2016, also lifted titles at $25k ITF/Wesley Chapel, FL-USA and $50k ITF/Sacramento, CA-USA

Broke into Top 100 for first time on March 19, 2018 (at No.94)

On ITF Circuit owns four singles and two doubles titles

Played first matches on ITF Circuit in March 2013

Climbed as high as No.2 in the ITF World Junior Rankings

Represented the US at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games and competed at the 2016 ITF Junior Masters, both held in

China

Grand Slam History

Made Grand Slam main draw debut at 2015 US Open as a wildcard – received for being crowned USTA Girls’ 18s

national champion. Fell 1r to Duque Mariño

Reached 3r at 2017 US Open as a wildcard (l. Sharapova), in what only fourth tour-level main draw outing

Made 2r at 2018 Wimbledon on main draw debut (l. Diatchenko)

Other major appearances were 1r losses to eventual R-Up Ka.Pliskova at 2016 US Open and Goerges at 2018

Australian Open

As a junior, reached the singles final at the 2015 US Open (l. Galfi), the semifinals at the 2016 US Open and the

quarterfinals at 2016 Wimbledon

Other Information

Born in Moscow, moved to New York as a baby before family settle in Flordia

Resides in Pembroke Pines, Florida, where she was home-schooled

Known as ‘Sonya’

Coached by father Alexander Kenin with support Lorenzo Cava; trains at at ProWorld Academy in Delray Beach, Florida

Bets tennis memory is playing idol Maria Sharapova on Arthur Ashe (US Open 2017)

If not a tennis player would be a fashion designer

Dream doubles partners would be Serena Williams and Gregor Dimitrov

Good friends with CiCi Bellis and Katie Swan

Likes rap music, especially Drake

Treat food is Froyo - cookies and cream with Hershey’s on top


MATCH NOTES

[1] GARBIÑE MUGURUZA (ESP #7) vs. VICTORIA AZARENKA (BLR #108)

Head to Head: VICTORIA AZARENKA leads 1-0

2016 HARD O R16 VICTORIA AZARENKA 131 mins7-6(6) 7-6(4) MIAMI

GARBIÑE MUGURUZA

7

9

08-10-1993 (24)

$1,623,934

$17,140,556

1 / 6

0 / 5

22-12 / 203-113

3-7 / 65-49

2-4 / 29-40

VICTORIA AZARENKA

108

76

31-07-1989 (29)

$604,052

$29,035,241

0 / 20

0 / 6

6-3

10-7 / 422-155

3-2 / 80-53

2-2 / 62-41

WTA RANKING


DATE OF BIRTH (AGE)

YTD PRIZE MONEY

CAREER PRIZE MONEY



SAN JOSE W-L (MD) *






4-2

7-2 / 289-89 13-6 / 129-73

0-1 / 16-12 0-1 / 44-13

2-1 / 29-29 1-2 / 64-63

2-3 / 54-51 3-4 / 114-88





[1] GARBIÑE MUGURUZA (ESP #7)

R32: BYE


vs.

VICTORIA AZARENKA (BLR #108)

R32: d. KATERYNA BONDARENKO (UKR #79) 6-3,6-7(7),7-5 (2h40)

Total games: 0

Won/lost: 0-0

Sets won/lost: 0-0




Total games: 34

Won/lost: 19-15

Sets won/lost: 2-1





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MUGURUZA:

San Jose

Making third appearance at the Bay Area event, having twice participated in the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic’s


Returns to Northern California having reached the SF last year (l. eventual champion Keys) and the QF stage in her

only other appearance in 2014 (l. eventual R-Up Kerber)

Enters San Jose on a wildcard and as the No.1 seed - this is her fifth tournament of the season as the top seed and

13th such tournament throughout her career. Holds a 17-11 record as the No.1 seed at tournaments, including a title

run at 2018 Monterrey

The last wildcard to win San Jose was Azarenka in 2010 (d. Sharapova in F)

Returns to hard courts, a surface on which she has won seven of her last eight matches (Miami – 2 matches,

Monterrey – 5 matches)

Faces No.108 Azarenka in 2r today for the second time in her career, having fallen in the only previous meeting at

2016 Miami

Has won 11 consecutive matches against opponents ranked outside the Top 100, including a 5-0 record this season.

Last loss against such an opponent came in 2016 Wimbledon (l. No.124 Cepelova)

Sits sixth in the WTA Insider Hard Court Power Rankings, based on a formula evaluating the ranking points earned in

the last four years on the respective surface

The lone Spaniard to reach the second round after Garcia Perez fell in 1r. A Spanish player has won the title just once

before in the Bay Area (Sánchez Vicario in 1994)

Season

Coming off 2r losses at Wimbledon (l. Van Uytvanck) and Birmingham (l. Strycova)

Advanced to SF at Roland Garros (l. eventual champion and No.1 Halep)

Was one win away from returning to WTA World No.1 in Paris, but needed to reach final


MATCH NOTES

GARBIÑE MUGURUZA

2017

L - MADISON KEYS (USA #21) SF 6-3 6-2

2014

L - ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #8) QF 6-2 6-1

VICTORIA AZARENKA

2014

R16 L - VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #25) 6-4 7-6(1)

2011

R16 L - MARINA ERAKOVIC (NZL #121) 4-6 7-5 6-2

2010

F W - MARIA SHARAPOVA (RUS #15) 6-4 6-1

2007

R1 L - MARIA KIRILENKO (RUS #45) 3-6 7-5 6-4


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Record against No.1-ranked players stands at 4-3: d. S.Williams (2014 Roland Garros, 2016 Roland Garros), d. Kerber

(2017 Wimbledon), d. Ka.Pliskova (2017 Cincinnati); l. S.Williams (2015 Australian Open, 2015 Wimbledon) and Halep

(2018 Roland Garros)

Arrived in Paris after opening match defeat at Rome (after 1r bye, l. Gavrilova in 3s – held 2mp)

Advanced to 3r at Madrid (l. Kasatkina) after suffering opening match loss at Stuttgart (ret. vs. Pavlyuchenkova

w/lower back injury)

Went 2-0 in singles (d. González and Cepede Royg) during Spain’s 3-1 Fed Cup World Group II play-off win over

Paraguay

Won sixth career singles title at Monterrey (d. Babos in F). Now owns 6-4 career record in singles finals

Reached R16 at Miami (l. eventual champion Stephens in straight sets) after falling to No.100 Vickery in Indian Wells

2r (after a 1r bye)

Made SF in Dubai (l. eventual R-Up Kasatkina, having held three match points)

Reached ninth career singles final in Doha (l. Kvitova in 3s)

Made 2r exit at Australian Open – as No.3 seed, l. No.88-ranked Hsieh. Was in contention to reclaim No.1 ranking in

Melbourne, but needed to reach final and see other results go her way

Opened 2018 season with 2r exit at Brisbane (after 1r bye, l. No.53 Krunic – led 7-5 5-2 before retiring w/cramp

midway through third set)

Withdrew before QF match against Gavrilova at Sydney (w/right thigh injury)

Career

Ended 2017 on a ranking of No.2 for career-best year-end finish. Ascended to become the World No.1 on September

11, 2017. Became the 24th woman in history of the WTA to hold the top spot and second from Spain (after Sánchez

Vicario in 1995)

Named ITF World Champion for 2017

Won two titles in 2017, lifting her second Grand Slam title at Wimbledon (d. V.Williams in F), as well as winning

Premier 5-level Cincinnati (d. Halep in F)

Dropped just one set en route to title at All England Club, during 2h20 R16 encounter against No.1 Kerber.Registered

300th match win (at all levels) with final victory over V.Williams

At Cincinnati, defeated World No.1 Ka.Pliskova and World No.2 Halep en route to title

Qualified for WTA Finals for third year in a row in 2017, however failed to progress from group stage

2016 season highlight was winning maiden Grand Slam title at Roland Garros. Rose to then career‐high ranking of

No.2 as a result. Was first Spanish woman to be ranked in Top 2 since Sánchez Vicario in December 1996 (as No.2)

Enjoyed breakout season in 2015, ending the year ranked No.3 and reaching first major final at Wimbledon

Made Top 10 rankings debut after 2015 Wimbledon; one of six players to enter the elite bracket in 2015 – also

Makarova, Suárez Navarro, Safarova, Ka.Pliskova and Bacsinszky

In 2015, became first Spanish player to compete at the WTA Finals in singles since 2001 (Sánchez Vicario) and

reached doubles final (w/Suárez Navarro, l. Hingis/Mirza)

Owns 6‐4 career record in singles finals: 2018 Monterrey, 2017 Wimbledon, 2017 Cincinnati, 2016 Roland Garros,

2015 Beijing and 2014 Hobart

Made WTA main draw debut at Miami in 2012, defeating No.9 Zvonareva for first Top 10 win of career

Grand Slam History

2018 Wimbledon marked 23nd main draw appearance at a Grand Slam. Owns 59-21 win-loss record across all

majors

Is a two-time Grand Slam champion, winning titles at 2016 Roland Garros (d. S.Williams in F, and dropping just one

set en route to lifting the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen) and 2017 Wimbledon (d. V.Williams in F)

Is one of 27 women in the Open Era to win multiple Grand Slam titles. Owns a 2-1 record in Grand Slam final

matches to date (also finishing R-Up at 2015 Wimbledon – l. S.Williams)

Is the second player to face both Williams sisters in the final of the same major (also Hingis, at US Open in 1997 – d.

V.Williams, and 1999 – l. S.Williams). By winning 2017 Wimbledon, became only player to defeat both sisters in

Grand Slam final, at Roland Garros (d. S.Williams in 2016) and Wimbledon (d. V.Williams in 2017)

The 45th woman in the Open Era to win a Grand Slam title and one of nine women (also Bouchard, Halep, Keys,

Kvitova, Ostapenko, Ka.Pliskova, Stephens and Wozniacki) born in the 1990s to make a Grand Slam final

At 2015 Wimbledon, became first Spaniard to reach Wimbledon final since Sánchez Vicario (1996) and first Spanish

woman to reach any Grand Slam singles final since Conchita Martínez at 2000 Roland Garros (l. Pierce)

Reached SF stage at 2018 Roland Garros (l. eventual champion Halep)

At Australian Open, best result is QF in 2017 (l. Vandeweghe) and at US Open reached R16 in 2017 (l. Kvitova)

Other Information

Coached by Sam Sumyk

Began playing tennis at age three; first memory of the sport was playing with her brothers

Mother, Scarlet is from Venezuela and father, José Antonio, is from Spain

AZARENKA:

San Jose

Prior to inaugural event here in San Jose, had made four previous appearance at tournament’s predecessor in

Stanford, lifting the title there in 2010 (d. Sharapova in F)

Is making first appearance at the Bay Area event after an absence of four years, falling to V.Williams in 2r in 2014

(after 1r bye)

Prior to 2018, her title run in 2010 marked the only occasion she has tasted any sort of success at this event, after

opening match losses in 2007 (l. Kirilenko), 2011 (l. Erakovic after 1r bye) and 2014 (l. V.Williams after 1r bye)

Returns to hard court having won six of eight matches on the surface earlier this season, including a SF run in Miami

Improved her record against Ka.Bondarenko to 5-0 following a hard-fought 3s victory in the 1r – was the first time

dropping a set against the Ukranian

Faces No.7 Muguruza in 2r action today. Won only previous match with her at 2016 Miami, where she would go on to

capture her 18th career title

A win would be her 65th career victory over a Top 10 opponent - is 1-2 vs. Top 10 player this season with sole win

coming over No.6 Ka.Pliskova in Miami

Looking to secure multiple wins at a tournament for the second time this season (also Miami), having only appeared

in seven events thus far

Did not contest summer US swing last year due to personal reasons

Season

San Jose marks first event since 2r exit at Wimbledon (l. Ka.Pliskova) in what was her 12th appearance at the All

England Club. 1r win over Alexandrova was 122nd Grand Slam main draw win – ranks sixth among active players. In

only other grass court event, made 2r exit at Mallorca (l. Safarova)

In mixed doubles at SW19, reached the final w/J.Murray, losing to Peya/Melichar

Posted back-to-back 1r exits at Rome (l. Osaka) and Roland Garros (l. Siniakova)

Suffered 2r exit at Madrid (l. Ka.Pliskova). Saw off Krunic in 1r to register her first win on clay in two years (d. Cornet in

2r at 2016 Madrid)

Made SF run at Miami (as WC, l. eventual champion Stephens). Upset No.15 Keys, No.17 Sevastova and No.6

Ka.Pliskova to register multiple Top 20 wins at same tournament for first time since 2016 Miami title run

Returned to Top 100 (at No.92) after SF run at Miami

Fell 2r at Indian Wells, defeating Watson in 1r before falling to Stephens

Career

Made return to tennis in June 2017 following birth of first child Leo in December 2016

Comeback tournament was on the grass of 2017 Mallorca, reaching 2r (d. Ozaki, l. Konjuh). Prior to 2017 Mallorca, last

tournament contested was 2016 Roland Garros (1r)

Followed this up with R16 showing at 2017 Wimbledon (l. Halep). Did not play any tournaments after Wimbledon due

to personal reasons

Ended 2016 ranked No.13, despite missing second half of season after going on maternity leave (announced

pregnancy mid-July). Lifted three titles, at Brisbane (first title since 2013 Cincinnati) and ‘Sunshine Double’ of Indian

Wells and Miami – third woman to achieve feat after Graf in 1994 and 1996 and Clijsters in 2005

Miami marked 20th tour-level singles title of career (20-16 record in finals)

Posted 26‐3 record for first six months of 2016 with losses coming at the Australian Open (QF, l. Kerber), Rome (2r, l.

Begu) and Roland Garros (ret. vs. Knapp w/right knee injury)

Limited to total of 23 events over 2014-15 seasons due to variety of injuries

Posted five consecutive Top 10 finishes between 2009 and 2013, qualifying for the WTA Finals on each occasion,

reaching final at Istanbul in 2011 (l. Kvitova)

Two-time Grand Slam champion, capturing back-to-back titles at the Australian Open in 2012 (d. Sharapova in F) and

2013 (d. Li in F). Also two-time finalist at US Open, in 2012 and 2013, falling to S.Williams on both occasions

Ascended to World No.1 after 2012 Australian Open and held top spot for a total of 51 weeks

Began 2012 with 26-match win streak – best start since Hingis went 37-0 in 1997. Went on to win tour-leading 69

matches in 2012, season highlighted by six titles, finishing as WTA’s year-end No.1

Owns 3‐9 record vs. World No.1s, with wins coming over S.Williams at 2009 Miami, 2013 Cincinnati and 2016 Indian

Wells. Losses were to Safina (2009 Roland Garros), Wozniacki (2011 Indian Wells) and S.Williams (2010 Australian

Open, 2013 Rome, 2013 US Open, 2013 Brisbane, 2015 Madrid, 2015 Roland Garros, 2015 Wimbledon)

Won two medals for Belarus at 2012 London Olympics – bronze in singles and mixed doubles gold (w/Mirnyi)

Made WTA main draw debut at 2005 Kolkata

ITF Junior World Champion for 2005 – reached first tour-level semifinal at Guangzhou the same year

Grand Slam History


Is a two‐time Grand Slam champion, winning the Australian Open in 2012 (d. Sharapova in F) and again in 2013 (d. Li

in F). Also a two‐time Grand Slam runner‐up, at 2012 and 2013 US Open (losing to S.Williams both times in 3s)

Reached Wimbledon SF in 2011 and 2012, while best result at Roland Garros has been SF appearance in 2013

Three Grand Slam doubles R-Up, at 2008 Australian Open (w/Peer), 2009 Roland Garros (w/Vesnina) and 2011

Australian Open (w/Kirilenko). Two-time Grand Slam mixed doubles champion, at 2007 US Open (w/Mirnyi) and 2008

Roland Garros (w/B.Bryan). Most recently finished as mixed doubles R-Up at 2018 Wimbledon (w/J.Murray)

Won girls’ singles titles at the Australian Open and US Open in 2005

Other Information

Coached by Benjamin Ebrahimzadeh. Formerly coached by Wim Fissette, Sam Sumyk and Michael Joyce

Gave birth to son Leo in December 2016

Introduced to tennis at age 7 by mother Alla; father's name is Fedor and older brother is Max

At 15, moved from hometown Minsk to train in Scottsdale, Arizona


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MUBADALA SILICON VALLEY CLASSIC – DAY 2 (TUESDAY)

Stadium

[5] MIHAELA BUZARNESCU (ROU #24) vs. SACHIA VICKERY (USA #73)First meeting

Buzarnescu was ranked outside Top 100 this time last year… Romanian owns 30 Tour-level main draw wins in 2018… Vickery bidding for fourth Top 30 win of season today

[6] SERENA WILLIAMS (USA #26) vs. JOHANNA KONTA (GBR #48)S.Williams leads 1-0

Serena playing first match since losing Wimbledon final to Kerber… Williams is a three-time champion at the Bay Area event… Konta won first WTA title at tournament’s predecessor at Stanford in 2016

VERA LAPKO (BLR #69) vs. [7] ZHANG SHUAI (CHN #32) First meeting

A win today for Lapko would be the second-best of career… She is contesting San Jose on a career-high ranking of No.69… Zhang enjoyed QF run at Nanchang last week…

KRISTINA MLADENOVIC (FRA #57) vs. [8] TIMEA BABOS (HUN #38) Mladenovic leads 4-3

Long time doubles partners face each other for the eighth time… First faced each other on ITF Circuit back in 2011… Their first doubles match together was in 2009… Babos has won last two meetings…

WANG QIANG (CHN #53) vs. [Q] AMANDA ANISIMOVA (USA #198) Anisimova leads 1-0

Wang on a five match winning streak after capturing Nanchang title… Anisimova returns to action for first main draw match since Miami following injury… Her last win came over today’s opponent Wang in 1r on Key Biscayne…

HEATHER WATSON (GBR #133) vs. [WC] CLAIRE LIU (USA #154) First meeting

Watson bidding for first win since Nottingham… Victory would be her 100th win at main draw, Tour-level… Liu pushed Wimbledon champion Kerber to three sets during 2r match at All England Club…

KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR… A win today would be Heather Watson’s 100th career victory at main draw, Tour level





SAN JOSE - USA, CA | Jul 30 - Aug 05, 2018 | $799,000 | PREMIER MATCH NOTES

[5] MIHAELA BUZARNESCU (ROU #24) vs. SACHIA VICKERY (USA #73)


MIHAELA BUZARNESCU 24 18

04-05-1988 (30) $844,079

$1,220,896 0 / 0 1 / 1

30-19 / 33-22 9-7 / 11-7 8-5 / 11-8

SACHIA VICKERY 73 84

11-05-1995 (23) $250,549 $879,613

0 / 0 0 / 0 3-2

9-9 / 26-32 1-4 / 9-8 0-0 / 9-4

WTA RANKING

PORSCHE RACE TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE)

YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY

SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER)

SAN JOSE W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) *

YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) *

YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) *

0-0

8-3 / 15-13 7-7 / 10-10 2-2 / 2-2 1-0 / 2-3

YTD / CAREER TOP 50 W-L (MD & Q) * YTD / CAREER TOP 100 W-L (MD & Q) *

12-11 / 13-13 21-19 / 22-22

4-7 / 7-13 5-8 / 14-38


Rnd Result Duration

Rnd Duration


SACHIA VICKERY 2017

R16-Q

L - VERONICA CEPEDE ROYG (PAR #85) 6-3 4-6 7-5

2016 R16 L - CATHERINE BELLIS (USA #203) 4-6 6-4 6-3

2015 R1-Q L - GABRIELA DABROWSKI (CAN #230) 6-2 6-4

2014 QF L - VARVARA LEPCHENKO (USA #59) 6-1 6-0

2013 R1-Q L - IVANA LISJAK (CRO #428) 4-6 6-2 6-4


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BUZARNESCU:

San Jose

• Contesting a Bay Area event for the first time in her career, having never previously played the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic’s predecessor in Stanford

• In parallel weeks in 2017, contested two ITF events in lead up to US Open, in Woking-GBR and Vancouver-CAN, ranked outside the Top 100 – in

contrast, contesting week of 2018 San Jose at a career-high ranking of No.24 (Jul 23, 2018)

• Faces Vickery today for first time in career – is 3-2 vs. women from USA in 2018 at Tour-level, defeating Riske (Hobart), King (Roland Garros) and

Falconi (2018 Notitngham), and losing to Brady (Indian Wells) and Keys (Roland Garros)

• Contesting doubles draw at San Jose w/Watson – team defeated Culibrk/Gauvain in 1r, and face Konta/Zhang in 2r

• Owns 30 tour-level main draw wins this season, the ninth-most in 2018. Prior to 2018, had three WTA level wins to her name

Season

• Coming off strong SF at home tournament in Bucharest (l. eventual R-Up Martic)

• Made Wimbledon main draw debut earlier in July, reaching 3r (l. Ka.Pliskova). Was second time reaching 3r at a Grand Slam, having

progressed to R16 at Roland Garros last month. 2018 Wimbledon was just the fourth grass court event of her career at tour-level

• Made R16 showing at Eastbourne (l. Ostapenko); win over No.20 Bertens in 2r marked fourth career win over a Top 20 player (4-9 career

record), with previous wins all coming earlier this year over No.6 Ostapenko (Doha), No.4 Svitolina (Roland Garros) and No.5 Svitolina

(Birmingham)

• Made SF run at Birmingham (l. eventual champion Kvitova) – her first QF and SF at WTA Premier-level

• Made QF result in Nottingham (l. Osaka) in what was her first-ever tournament on grass at the WTA level

• Reached third and fourth WTA doubles finals of the season (and career) at Nottingham (w/Watson, l. Rosolska/Spears in F) and Eastbourne

(w/Begu, l. Dabrowski/Xu in F). Now has 1-3 record in doubles finals

• Enjoyed run to R16 at Roland Garros, her best result at a major (l. Keys). Produced one of biggest upsets at this year’s Roland Garros’ by

defeating World No.4 Svitolina in straight sets in 3r

• Finished with an 11-7 record on clay in 2018, highlighted by R-Up finish at Prague (l. Kvitova) and SF at Strasbourg (l. eventual R-Up

Cibulkova)

• Won first career doubles title at Strasbourg (w/Olaru, d. N.Kichenok/An.Rodionova in F)

• Suffered 1r defeats at both Madrid (l. Sharapova) and Rome (l. Zhang)

• Reached second WTA singles final of career at Prague (l. Kvitova in 3s); rose to then-career-high ranking of No.32 following the tournament

(May 7, 2018). Also doubles R-Up in Czech capital (w/Marozava, l. Melichar/Peschke)

• Part of Romania team that beat Switzerland 3-1 reach World Group for the second time in four years (l. dead doubles rubber w/Cirstea against

Golubic/Teichmann)

• Other clay court results included 2r run in Charleston (l. Errani) and 1r exit at Lugano (l. Sabalenka)

• Fell 1r back-to-back at Indian Wells (l. Brady) and Miami (l. Flipkens) after a 2r showing at Budapest (l. eventual champion Van Uytvanck)

• Reached R16 at Doha (l. Goerges). Scored career first Top 10 win over No.6 Ostapenko in 2r

• Advanced to SF at $100k ITF/Midland, MI-USA (l. Brengle) after 1r exit at Australian Open (l. eventual champion Wozniacki)

• Reached first WTA singles final of career at Hobart (l. Mertens in 3s), having not dropped a set en route to the final

• Opened 2018 season at Shenzhen, falling 1r to Sharapova

Career • Enjoyed breakthrough year in 2017, achieving first Top 100 season of career at No.72. Previous best year-end finish was in 2011 (No.155)

• Reached first tour-level SF of career at 2017 Linz (having come through qualifying), defeating No.35 Kontaveit en route (l. eventual champion

Strycova)

• Broke into Top 100 after Linz run (October 16, 2017); at 29 was the oldest Top 100 debutante since 33-year-old Obziler on February 19, 2007

at No.96

• Made Grand Slam and WTA main draw debut at 2017 US Open as a qualifier (l. Wozniacki in 1r). Prior to US Open breakthrough had made 16

unsuccessful attempts to qualify for tour-level tournaments, including eight Grand Slams, dating back to 2007 Fès

• Only other main draw appearance in 2017 resulted in 1r exit at Luxembourg

• Ascent up the rankings helped by strong showings on ITF Circuit in 2017, picking up seven titles, including $100k ITF/Poitiers-FRA and $80k

ITF/Biarritz-FRA

• Posted a 9-11 win-loss record in 2016, with best result a QF run at $50k ITF/Hodmezovasarhely-HUN. Finished year ranked No.351 (down

from No.260 in 2015)

• In 2015, won 48 matches, four ITF Circuit titles and rose over 600 places in the rankings, finishing at No.260

• Made WTA qualifying debut at 2007 Fès

• Has won 22 singles and 34 doubles titles on ITF Circuit

• Made professional debut at 2004 $10k ITF/Bucharest-ROU (l. Savu in 1r)

Grand Slam History

• 2018 Wimbledon marked fourth main draw appearance at a Grand Slam

• Has been seeded twice at a Grand Slam in her career – was No.31 seed at 2018 Roland Garros, and No.29 seed at 2018 Wimbledon

• Advanced to R16 at 2018 Roland Garros (l. Keys) for her best result at a major to date; also made 3r at 2018 Wimbledon (l. Ka.Pliskova)

• Fell 1r on Grand Slam main draw debut at 2017 US Open (as qualifier, l. No.5 seed Wozniacki) and 2018 Australian Open (l. No.2 seed and

eventual champion Wozniacki)

• Reached QF stage in doubles at 2018 Roland Garros (w/Bara, l. H.Chan/Z.Yang)

• Before making main draw debut, had fallen eight times in Grand Slam qualifying previously, at Australian Open (2012, 2017) Roland Garros

(2012), Wimbledon (2012, 2017) and US Open (2011, 2012, 2015)

Other Information • Coached by Fratila Septimiu and father, Mihai, a former Romanian intercollegiate tennis player; mother is Marcela (pharmacist). Introduced to

tennis at age 4 by parents

• Has been part of the Romanian national tennis federation since age 12

• Grew up idolizing Pete Sampras and Monica Seles

• Gained PhD in sports science from UNEFS in Bucharest

VICKERY:

San Jose • Made two main draw appearances at Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic’s predecessor in Stanford, reaching the QFs in 2014 (as qualifier, l. Lepchenko)

and 2r in 2016 (as qualifier, l. Bellis)

• One of 12 women from USA to contest singles draw this week

• Faces No.24 Buzarnescu today - bidding for fourth Top 30 win of season, after defeats of No.28 A.Radwanska (Auckland), No.3 Muguruza (Indian Wells)

and No.17 Rybarikova (Monterrey)

• Is 1-0 vs. lefties this season (2-3 in career), defeating Vondrousova at Wimbledon

Season

• Contesting first event since 2r exit at Wimbledon (l. Mertens), matching best performance at a Slam

• In other results on grass, fell 1r at Eatsbourne (as qualifier, l. eventual R-Up Sabalenka), fell in Birmingham qualifying, and posted 1r exit at Nottingham

(l. Osaka)

• On clay, posted on one win (during Madrid qualifying, though didn’t win through to main draw), as she suffered opening match losses at Rabat (l. Fett),

Strasbourg (l. Jani) and Roland Garros (l. Keys)

• Enjoyed strong SF run at Monterrey (l. eventual R-Up Babos) – the second WTA singles SF of her career

• Opened the Sunshine Double with a good showing at Indian Wells, reaching 3r (as qualifier) and posting best win rankings-wise of career over No.3

Muguruza (l. eventual champion Osaka)

• Opened season by reaching first WTA SF of career at Auckland (as qualifier, l. eventual R-Up Wozniacki). Posted at the time her best win rankings-wise

of her career with defeat of No.28 A.Radwanska in QF (bettering win over No.39 Ostapenko at 2016 Miami qualifying)

• Followed this up by falling in qualifying at Australian Open

• Has contested two WTA 125k Series events this year, reaching QF at Newport Beach (l. Hibi) and most recently the WTA 125k Series here in Indian Wells

(l. Kenin in 1r)

Career

• Finished 2017 at No.116 for career-best year-end finish. Season highlights were reaching QF at Québec City (l. Maria) and 2r at US Open (as

qualifier, l. Kenin), her joint best result at a Slam

• Has reached one WTA SF in career, at 2018 Auckland (l. Wozniacki)

• In addition to 2017 Québec City, has reached the QF stage at 2016 Bogotá, 2015 Nottingham and 2014 Stanford

• Finished 2016 ranked No.139 (down from No.130 in 2015)

• Run to QFs at 2014 Stanford marked WTA breakthrough (d. Puig in 2r, l. Lepchenko)

• Won most recent title on ITF Circuit in 2017 at $60k ITF/Templeton, CA-USA

• Won two ITF singles titles in 2015, both on home soil – at $25k ITF/Plantation, FL-USA (d. Crawford in F) and $25k ITF/Sunrise, FL-USA (d. Tormo

in F); also owns one ITF doubles title

• Made professional debut at $10k ITF/Eansville, IN-USA (l. Lumpkin in SF)

Grand Slam History

• Made major debut as a wildcard in 2013 US Open, reaching 2r where she fell to Glushko. Made 2r again in New York in 2017 (as qualifier, l. Kenin) and

at 2018 Wimbledon (l. Mertens)

• Completed set of Grand Slam main draw appearances by qualifying for 2016 Roland Garros (l. Sevastova in 1r)

• Has also fallen 1r at 2014 Australian Open (as WC, l. Davis), 2015 Wimbledon (as qualifier, l. Makarova), US Open in 2015 (as WC, L. Rogers) and

2018 Roland Garros (l. Keys)

Other Information • Coached by Matt Evans

• Started playing tennis aged six

• Hobbies include reading and playing with her dogs. Also interested in marine biology

• Also speaks French

• Father was pro soccer player; mother ran track in high school; brother plays football at South Carolina State (defensive back)

• Best friends with Vicky Duval


[6] SERENA WILLIAMS (USA #26) vs. JOHANNA KONTA (GBR #48)

Head to Head: SERENA WILLIAMS leads 1-0

2017 HARD O QF SERENA WILLIAMS 75 mins 6-2 6-3 AUSTRALIAN OPEN

SERENA WILLIAMS 26 17

26-09-1981 (36) $1,897,530 $86,360,661

0 / 72 0 / 23

11-3 / 785-129 2-0 / 153-58 3-0 / 107-52

JOHANNA KONTA 48 36

17-05-1991 (27) $584,201

$6,721,524 0 / 3 0 / 0 4-0

17-15 / 119-78 2-7 / 25-37 4-3 / 27-19

WTA RANKING







17-2

8-7 / 78-40 2-2 / 483-77 2-1 / 67-12 0-3 / 10-10

0-2 / 171-69 0-6 / 14-15 3-2 / 297-92 3-7 / 28-24




Duration

SAN JOSE Tournament History SERENA WILLIAMS 2014

W - ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #8) F 7-6(1) 6-3

2012 W - COCO VANDEWEGHE (USA #120) F 7-5 6-3

2011 W - MARION BARTOLI (FRA #9) F 7-5 6-1

2009 L - SAMANTHA STOSUR (AUS #20) QF 6-2 3-6 6-2

2008 L - ALEKSANDRA WOZNIAK (CAN #85) SF 6-2 3-1

JOHANNA KONTA 2016

F W - VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #7) 7-5 5-7 6-2


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S.WILLIAMS:

San Jose

• Prior to inaugural event here in San Jose, had made five previous appearance at tournament’s predecessor in Stanford, where she lifted the title three

times – in 2011 (d. Bartoli), 2012 (d. Vandeweghe) and 2014 (d. Kerber)

• Has never failed to reach at least the QF stage at the Bay Area event, making the last eight in 2009 (l. Stosur) and the SF in 2008 (l. Wozniak)

• Missed entire summer US swing in 2017 due to pregnancy

• One of 12 women from USA to begin singles draw this week

• Enters Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic on a special ranking of No.1 – has used four of her eight allowed SR entries so far

• Actual ranking is No.26 – began the month ranked No.181, however following run to Wimbledon final, has subsequently jumped 155 spots at the close

of July

Season

• San Jose marks sixth event following birth of daughter Alexis Olympia in September 2017

• Contesting first tournament since reaching Wimbledon final (l. Kerber) – her 30th Grand Slam singles final, and was bidding for eighth Wimbledon crown

• Victory would have seen her tie Australia’s Margaret Court on 24 Grand Slam singles titles, the all-time record

• Was making 18th main draw appearance at All England Club - among active players, only Venus has played Wimbledon more often (21)

• Advanced to R16 at Roland Garros (withdrew prior to match against Sharapova w/right pectoral muscle tear)

• In Paris, posted wins over Kr.Pliskova, No.17 seed Barty and No.11 seed Goerges

• With sister Venus, won two doubles matches in Paris to advance to R16 (l. Klepac/Martínez Sánchez)

• Roland Garros was first event contested since Miami (l. Osaka in 1r)

• Made her return to tour as a mother at Indian Wells, falling to sister V.Williams in 3r, having defeated Diyas and Bertens in straight sets

• Prior to Indian Wells, played Tie Break Tens event in Madison Square Garden in New York – defeated Marion Bartoli in opening match before falling to Zhang Shuai in SF

• In December 2017 appeared at Mubadala World Tennis Championships in Abu Dhabi (l. Ostapenko 6-2, 3-6, 10-5)

• In February partnered w/V.Williams in doubles rubber during Team USA’s Fed Cup win over the Netherlands (l. Kerkhove/Schuurs)

Career

• Ended 2017 ranked No.22, despite playing only two events all season, and both in January. Broke streak of 10 consecutive Top 20 finishes. Overall, has 15 Top 10 finishes to her name – third-most behind Navratilova (20) and Evert (19) – including five as the year-end No.1

• Won 23rd Grand Slam singles title at 2017 Australian Open (d. V.Williams in F)

• Qualified first for the 2016 BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by SC Global but withdrew due to right shoulder injury – did not play after US Open

• Was the only player to reach SF or better at all four Grand Slams in 2016 (R-Up at Australian Open (l. Kerber), R-Up at Roland Garros (l. Muguruza), champion at Wimbledon (d. Kerber in F), SF at US Open (l. Ka.Pliskova)

• With 72 career singles titles, ranks fifth on the Open Era list of most titles, after Martina Navratilova (167), Chris Evert (154), Steffi Graf (107) and Margaret Court (92). Also a 20-time singles runner-up

• Holds distinction of being the oldest No.1 in WTA history – set record when most recent streak began on February 18, 2013. Spent her 319th week at No.1 in May 2017. Third on all-time list after Graf’s 377 and Navratilova’s 332

• Held the top ranking for 186 consecutive weeks (through 2016 US Open) which equaled the record held by Graf (186 weeks, August 17, 1986 through March 10, 1991)

• Five-time champion at WTA Finals (2001, 2009, 2012-14)

• Has registered 16 career wins over (seven different) No.1 ranked players, second-most behind Navratilova (18)

• Among active players, owns the most clay court titles, with 13

• Singles gold medalist at London 2012 Olympics, and doubles gold medalist at 2000 Sydney, 2008 Beijing and 2012 London (all w/V.Williams)

• Spent eight weeks as co-No.1 in doubles (w/V. Williams); one of six players to hold No.1 in singles and doubles simultaneously (also Navratilova, Hingis, Sánchez Vicario, Davenport and Clijsters)

• Holds single-season prize money record of $12,385,572, achieved in 2013

• At 2014 US Open, received $4 million prize money pay out (including Emirates Airline US Open Series bonus); the largest payout in tennis – men’s or women’s

Grand Slam History

• 2018 Wimbledon marked 69th Grand Slam main draw appearance – trailing only V.Williams (79) and Schiavone (70) amongst active players and in the Open Era, also Frazier (71)

• A 23-time Grand Slam singles winner, ahead of Stefanie Graf (22) on Open Era leaderboard, and behind only Margaret Court (24) all time

• Her titles were won at Australian Open: 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009-10, 2015, 2017; Roland Garros: 2002, 2013, 2015; Wimbledon: 2002-03, 2009-10, 2012, 2015-16; US Open: 1999, 2002, 2008, 2012-14

• Owns a 23-7 record in Grand Slam finals, with losses coming at 2001 US Open (l. V.Williams), 2004 Wimbledon (l. Sharapova), 2008 Wimbledon (l. V.Williams), 2011 US Open (l. Stosur), 2016 Australian Open (l. Kerber), 2016 Roland Garros (l. Muguruza) and 2018 Wimbledon (l. Kerber)

• The 2017 Australian Open final saw Serena and Venus have the oldest combined age of any Grand Slam final match-up in the Open Era (71 years, 351 days), beating the previous record set by Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci (66 years, 19 days) at the 2015 US Open. Prior to that all-Italian final the record was held for nearly four decades by Virginia Wade and Betty Stove – who had a combined age of just over 63 years, 11 months at 1977 Wimbledon

• In 2015, came within two match wins of completing the calendar year Grand Slam, having won the Australian Open (d. Sharapova in F), Roland Garros (d. Safarova in F) and Wimbledon (d. Muguruza in F); l. Vinci in SF at US Open. Was bidding to become third woman in Open Era to achieve the feat, after Court (1970) and Graf (1988)

• In the Open Era, Williams’ 11-year gap between Roland Garros titles in 2002 and 2013 (without winning another Roland Garros title during that time) is the longest gap for a woman at any Grand Slam

• Has twice been in possession all four majors for a “Serena Slam” (2002 Roland Garros to 2003 Australian Open and 2014 US Open to 2015 Wimbledon)

• Has won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles, all with sister Venus – most recently at 2016 Wimbledon (d. Babos/Shvedova in F). Also won mixed doubles titles at 1998 Wimbledon and 1998 US Open (both w/Mirnyi)

• The sisters held all four Grand Slam titles at same time, from 2009 Wimbledon through 2010 Roland Garros – third pair to do so (also Navratilova/Shriver and Fernandez/Zvereva). Also teamed with Venus to win three Olympic gold medals: 2000 Sydney, 2008 Beijing and 2012 London

Other Information

• Coached by father Richard Williams and mother Oracene Price; coaching consultant is Patrick Mouratoglou; hitting partner is Jarmere Jenkins

• Gave birth to daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. on September 1, 2017

• Married Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian in November 2017 in New Orleans

• Recently launched her own clothing line, ‘Serena’

KONTA:

San Jose

• Prior to inaugural event here in San Jose, made one appearance at tournament’s predecessor in Stanford in 2016, where she went on to lift her debut WTA title (d. V.Williams in F)

• As a result, she became the first British woman to reach final of a Premier event since WTA Roadmap was introduced in 2009, and first British

woman to win the tournament since Barker in 1977 (when it was held in San Francisco)

• Contesting doubles this fortnight w/Zhang Shuai – team dispatched Cako/Geuer in 1r and face Buzarnescu/Watson in 2r

• One of two representatives of Great Britain to begin singles main draw – also Watson (who faces Liu today)

• Faces S.Williams today in second career meeting, having lost to the American at 2017 Australian Open (QF)

• Enjoyed mixed results during 2017 US hardcourt swing – lost opening match at Toronto (l. Makarova), reached QF of Cincinnati (l. eventual R-Up

Halep) and suffered 1r exit at US Open (l. Krunic)

Season

• Contesting first event since 2r exit at Wimbledon (l. Cibulkova), having reached SF at All England Club in 2017

• Reached sixth WTA singles final of career at Nottingham (l. Barty) before making 1r exit at Birmingham (l. eventual champion Kvitova) and

reaching 3r at home event of Eastbourne (l. Wozniacki)

• In 2017, posted the best win-loss record on grass across tour-level events (13-3), including a runner-up finish at Nottingham (l. Vekic), and SF

runs at Eastbourne (l. Ka.Pliskova) and Wimbledon (l. V.Williams)

• Fell 1r at Roland Garros (l. Putintseva)

• Reached R16 at Rome (l. Ostapenko in 3s) after 1r exit at Madrid (l. Pera)

• Reached QF in doubles at Madrid (d. No.4 seeds Xu/Dabrowski in R16 before falling to Klepac/Martinez Sanchez)

• Fell in 2r at Charleston (after 1r bye, l. Stollar)

• Enjoyed a good run of form as the defending champion at Miami, where she reached R16 (l. V.Williams in 3s). Hit 50 winners across opening

two matches, against Belgium’s Flipkens and Mertens, to reach R16

• Made 2r exit at Indian Wells (after 1r bye, l. Vondrousova)

• Finished the Middle East swing with 3-2 record, reaching R16 at Doha (l. Kerber) before a 2r exit at Dubai (l. Kasatkina)

• Won all three singles rubbers to help Great Britain advance from Europe/Africa Zone Group I and set up a World Group II play-off against Japan

in April

• Made 2r exit at Australian Open, falling to No.123-ranked lucky loser Pera – worst loss by ranking since falling to No.164 Torró-Flor at 2015

$50k ITF/Saint-Gaudens-FRA

• Made 2r exit at Sydney (as defending champion, l. A.Radwanska)

• Opened 2017 season by reaching QF at Brisbane (l. eventual champion Svitolina). Was two points from victory in second set against Svitolina

before retiring with a right hip injury midway through third set

• Win over Keys in 1r at Brisbane broke five-match losing streak carried over from 2017

Career • Enjoyed best season of career in 2017, posting career-high season finish of No.9 (second Top 10 season in a row). Peaked in rankings at No.4

on July 17, 2017

• Began 2017 season in great form by lifting title at Sydney (d. A.Radwanska in F), before landing biggest title of career at Premier-Mandatory

Miami (d. Wozniacki in F)

• At 2017 Wimbledon became first British player since Virginia Wade in 1978 to reach Wimbledon SF (l. R-Up V.Williams). Had previously won

just one match from five previous visits to All England Club, in 2016 (d. Puig, l. Bouchard in 2r)

• Reached third final of 2017 season at Nottingham (l. Vekic)

• Overall record in WTA finals now stands at 3-3

• Also in 2017, reached SF for second year in a row at home event of Eastbourne – conceded walkover to eventual champion Ka.Pliskova, having

sustained a thoracic spine injury during her QF defeat of World No.1 Kerber (fell heavily on match point, but won match after treatment). Match

against Kerber was second of day, after she defeated Roland Garros champion Ostapenko in R16

• With win over Kerber, became first British woman to defeat a reigning World No.1 since Barker d. Chris Evert at 1979 Boston

• Was in contention for WTA Finals qualification in 2017, however withdrawal from Moscow opened spot for Garcia

• Career record vs. Top 5 stands at 5-8; wins coming over No.2 Halep at 2015 Wuhan, No.3 A.Radwanska at 2017 Sydney, No.5 Halep at 2017

Miami, No.1 Kerber at 2017 Eastbourne and No.2 Halep at Wimbledon

• Posted first Top 10 season in 2016, at No.10

• Ended 2016 season at WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai in November (went 2‐0 in round‐robin play), fell in SF (l. Svitolina)

• Reached first Premier mandatory final of career at 2016 Beijing (l. A.Radwanska)

• Alternate for WTA Finals in Singapore, narrowly missing qualification in the Top 8; was not called upon to play a match

• By virtue of reaching 2016 Beijing final, made WTA Top 10 debut – first British woman to feature in the elite group since Durie in 1984, and the

fourth British woman overall to do so (also Wade and Barker). Became 119th woman to break into the Top 10, and the fourth to do so in 2016

after Vinci, Bencic and Keys

• Won career‐first singles title at 2016 Stanford in maiden final (d. V.Williams in F). First British woman to reach final of a Premier event since

WTA Roadmap was introduced in 2009, and first British woman to win the tournament since Barker in 1977 (when it was held in San Francisco)

• Broke into Top 20 on June 6, 2016 (at No.18) – first British woman in Top 20 for nearly 30 years (the week of October 13, 1986, with Durie at

No.20)

• Was voted WTA Most Improved Player in 2016 by international media and fans

• Played first events of career on ITF Circuit in 2006, making WTA main draw debut at 2011 Copenhagen (as qualifier, l. 1r)

Grand Slam History • 2018 Wimbledon marked 20th main draw appearance at a Grand Slam

• Is a two-time Grand Slam semifinalist. Made Slam breakthrough with historic run to SF at 2016 Australian Open (l. eventual champion Kerber);

first British woman to reach the last four at Melbourne Park since Sue Barker in December 1977, and at any Grand Slam since Jo Durie at 1983

US Open

• Has since reached SF at 2017 Wimbledon (l. R-Up V.Williams), becoming the first British woman to reach the last four since Virginia Wade in

1978 (l. Evert)

• Also made QF at Australian Open in 2017 (l. eventual champion S.Williams), while at US Open has twice reached R16, in 2015 (l. Kvitova) and

2016 (l. Sevastova)

• At Roland Garros has never been beyond 1r, falling at the first hurdle in 2015-18

Other Information • Was introduced to the sport at age eight by parents; started to play at an after‐school care program

• Born in Sydney, Australia; became a British citizen in May 2012. Parents are Gabor (hotelier) and Gabriella (dentist); older sister is Eva (works in

fashion)

• Grandfather Tamas Kertesz played football for the Hungarian ‘Golden Team’ with Ferenc Puskas in 1955

• Currently coached by Michael Joyce, having parted ways with Wim Fissette at end of 2017 season


VERA LAPKO (BLR #69) vs. [7] ZHANG SHUAI (CHN #32)


VERA LAPKO 69 70

29-09-1998 (19) $189,707 $302,212

0 / 0 0 / 0

5-5 / 7-8 2-3 / 2-5 2-1 / 2-2

ZHANG SHUAI 32 33

21-01-1989 (29) $465,343

$4,068,658 0 / 2 1 / 5 0-1

16-18 / 111-147 2-5 / 34-35 6-4 / 28-35

WTA RANKING







0-0

10-10 / 85-98 0-1 / 2-3 0-1 / 0-1 1-4 / 10-14

0-0 / 0-0 0-3 / 5-18 0-2 / 0-2 1-3 / 13-44





ZHANG SHUAI 2014

R1 L - SACHIA VICKERY (USA #193) 6-1 6-2


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LAPKO:

San Jose

• Contesting the WTA’s Bay Area event for the first time

• This time last year was ranked No.241 – has risen more than 170 places since then and is playing San Jose on her career-high ranking of No.69,

first set last week (week of July 23, 2018)

• A win over No.32 Zhang today would represent the second best-by-ranking of her career to date – d. No.28 Kontaveit earlier this year at Lugano

• One of two Belarusian women in the main draw at San Jose this week, along with Azarenka; they could potentially meet in QF

• Playing first event since Wimbledon

Season

• Grass season brought 2r effort at Nottingham (l. Vekic); qualifying exit at Birmingham; and QF run at $100k ITF/Southsea-GBR (l. Flipkens) before

reaching 2r on debut at Wimbledon (l. Goerges)

• Fell in qualifying at Roland Garros (l. Andreescu)

• Before heading to Roland Garros, won back-to-back ITF Circuit titles at $100k ITF/Khimki-RUS (d. Potapova in F) and $60k ITF/St Gaudens-RUS (d.

Lemoine in F)

• On red clay, broke through to first WTA SF at Lugano, defeating No.28 Kontaveit en route for career-best win to date (l. Mertens). Also reached

doubles final at Lugano (w/Sabalenka, l. Flipkens/Mertens)

• Successfully qualified at Charleston, before ret. vs. Buzarnescu in 1r

• Began 2018 with losses in tour qualifying at Brisbane, Australian Open, St Petersburg, Budapest, Indian Wells and Miami

• Fell in qualifying at WTA 125K Series event at Indian Wells

Career • In 2017, rose from No.320 to No.131, her year culminating in a maiden WTA quarterfinal run in Moscow – where she held a match point before

narrowly losing to Irina-Camelia Begu

• Member of Belarus Fed Cup team that advanced to maiden final in 2017, against USA in Minsk

• Two-time doubles R-Up, at 2016 Guangzhou (w/Govortsova) and 2018 Lugano (w/Sabalenka)

• Set career-high ranking of No.69 on July 23, 2018

• Owns six ITF Circuit titles in singles and seven in doubles

• Made WTA main draw debut at 2016 Katowice (as WC, l. Kulichkova in 1r)

• Won first ITF Circuit title at 2015 $10k ITF/Sharm El Sheik (d. Vondrousova in F)

• Played first professional matches on ITF Circuit in 2014, qualifying at $10k ITF/Antalya-TUR and reaching SF at $25k ITF/Minsk-BLR

• Former junior World No.1

Grand Slam History

• Made Grand Slam main draw debut at 2018 Wimbledon, where she defeated McHale in 1r before falling to Goerges

• Fell in Grand Slam qualifying at 2017 Australian Open, 2017 US Open, 2018 Australian Open and 2018 Roland Garros

• In juniors, won the girls' singles title at 2016 Australian Open (d. doubles partner Mihalikova in F) and in doubles was R-Up (both w/Mihalikova) at

US Open in 2014 and Wimbledon in 2015

Other Information • Started playing tennis at age 5

• Mother, Elena is an engineer; her late father Valery was a builder; has a brother, Nikita

• Favorite surfaces are hardcourts and grass

• Supports Liverpool FC

• Enjoys calm music

• Coached by Vladimir Kruk

ZHANG:

San Jose

• Making her second appearance in California’s Bay Area – fell 1r on debut in 2014 (l. Vickery)

• Coming off QF run on hardcourts at the WTA’s International-level event at Nanchang, China, where she was the top seed (l. Zhu)

• One of two Chinese women in the singles field this week, along with Wang Qiang, who won the title at Nanchang last week

• Chinese No.1 of five women in the current Top 100 (week of July 30, 2018)

Season

• Grass swing ended with 1r exit at Wimbledon (l. Petkovic), following a 1r exit at ‘s-Hertogenbosch (l. Stollar)

• Reached 2r at Roland Garros (l. Begu)

• Made 2r showings at Madrid (d. Osaka, l. Mladenovic) and Rome (l. Ostapenko)

• Advanced to SF at Prague (l. eventual champion Kvitova) following 1r exit at Istanbul (l. Rus)

• Captured fifth career doubles title at Istanbul (w/Liang, d. Knoll/Smith in F)

• Seeded No.31, received 1r bye at Miami (l. Haddad Maia in 2r)

• Reached 3r at Indian Wells (as No.32 seed, l. Ka.Pliskova in 3s)

• Advanced to back-to-back QF at Budapest (l. eventual champion Van Uytvanck) and Acapulco (l. Peterson)

• Fell 1r at Taipei City (l. Kozlova) and Doha (l. Makarova)

• Started season with 2r showings at Shenzhen (l. Diyas), Hobart (l. Sabalenka) and Australian Open (l. Allertova)

• Best win by ranking so far this year was 1r win over No.13 Stephens at the Australian Open

Career

• Posted fifth Top 100 season in 2017, finishing at No.36 – four Chinese players in year-end Top 100

• Season highlighted by winning Guangzhou title (d. Krunic in F); now owns 2-0 record in WTA singles finals, having also won 2013 Guangzhou

• Also in 2017, reached QF at New Haven and Doha, and won WTA 125K Series event in Honolulu

• Posted career-high ranking of No.23 on November 14, 2016

• Strong end to 2016 (went 21-6 post US Open) brought back-to-back semifinals on Asian swing – Tokyo [Japan Open] and Seoul – and saw her

win 19th ITF Circuit singles title of career at $100k ITF/Tokyo 2-JPN

• At last event of season, runner-up at WTA 125K Series event in Honolulu (l. Bellis in F)

• Enjoyed Grand Slam breakthrough at 2016 Australian Open, where she advanced to QF (d. No.2 Halep and No.17 Keys en route, l. Konta).

Run also marked first time winning back-to-back main draw matches since semifinal run at 2014 Birmingham

• Other season highlights in 2016 included reaching 3r at US Open (best result at tournament), where she claimed back-to-back match wins

at tour level for first time since 3r effort at Indian Wells in March, a run spanning 10 tournaments

• Represented China at Rio Olympics (d. No.15 Bacsinszky in opening match, l. Siegemund in 2r). In doubles, also made 2r (w/Peng, l.

Hradecka/Hlavackova)

• Contemplated retirement after ending 2015 ranked No.186, her lowest year-end finish since 2008 (No.212) and down from No.62 in 2014

• Reached 2r at tour-level on only four occasions in 2015: Pattaya City, Charleston, Prague and Nürnberg

• Winner of two WTA singles titles, at 2013 and 2017 Guangzhou, and also won WTA 125K Series event at Nanjing in 2013 (d. Morita in F)

• Has won four WTA doubles titles, most recently at 2014 Pattaya City (w/Peng) and is a four-time runner-up

• Winner of 19 singles titles and nine doubles titles on ITF Circuit

• Member of Chinese Fed Cup team in 2007, 2009-10, 2012, 2014-15; Chinese Olympic Team, 2012, 2016

• Made WTA qualifying debut at 2006 Beijing; made WTA main draw debut at 2006 Guangzhou

Grand Slam History

• 2018 Wimbledon marked 30th Grand Slam main draw appearance

• Enjoyed Grand Slam breakthrough at 2016 Australian Open, where she advanced to QF – first time she had progressed beyond 1r at a

major in what was her 15th main draw appearance. As a qualifier, defeated No.2 Halep and No.17 Keys en route (l. Konta). Ranked

No.133, became lowest-ranked player to advance to last eight in Melbourne since unranked Henin reached final in 2010, and first qualifier

to do so since Gavaldon in 1990

• By reaching 3r last year at US Open, matched her best result in New York, also making this stage in 2016 (l. Shvedova). This was preceded by

three 1r exits – in 2008 (as qualifier, l. Kuznetsova), 2011 (l. Cibulkova) and 2014 (l. Barthel)

• At Roland Garros, reached 3r for the first time in 2017, and has never progressed beyond 1r at Wimbledon in five main draw appearances

Other Information • Hails from a sporting family. Father, Zhang Zhi Qiang, was a professional soccer player, and mother, Wang Feng Quin, was a basketball

player

• Announced last year as a Global Ambassador for Dubai Duty Free

• Coached by Liu Shuo

• Started playing tennis at age 6 when parents took her to local club

• Best tennis memory was playing mixed doubles with Pete Sampras in 2011, winning Guangzhou in 2013, and reaching the 2016

Australian Open QF

• Relaxes by listening to music, taking photos and exploring the places she travels to

MLADENOVIC:

San Jose

• Contesting the Bay Area event for the first time in her career, having never previously played the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic’s predecessor in

Stanford

• Faces long-time doubles partner No.38 Timea Babos today for the eighth time in their careers. Mladenovic leads all-time series 4-3, including a

2-1 mark on outdoor hard court

• While neither will participate in doubles competition at San Jose, the Babos/Mladenovic pairing has played in nine tournaments this season,

posting a 24-7 record, and have won two titles (Australian Open and Birmingham)

• Babos/Mladenovic currently sit at No.2 in the Porsche Race to Singapore – Top 8 teams qualify for the WTA Finals in October

• Enters play with a 4-4 record in matches against higher ranked opponents this season

• The lone Frenchwoman in the main draw this time around – Bartoli is the only French player to reach the final here, doing so in 2008 (R-Up), 2009

(Winner) and 2011 (R-Up)


KRISTINA MLADENOVIC (FRA #57) vs. [8] TIMEA BABOS (HUN #38)

Head to Head: KRISTINA MLADENOVIC leads 4-3

2017 HARD O R1 TIMEA BABOS 104 mins 7-5 7-5 NEW HAVEN 2016 HARD I R16 TIMEA BABOS 73 mins 6-1 6-4 MOSCOW 2016 CLAY O R2 KRISTINA MLADENOVIC 78 mins 6-4 6-3 ROLAND GARROS 2015 GRASS O R1 KRISTINA MLADENOVIC 124 mins 7-6(4) 4-6 6-2 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH 2015 CLAY O SF TIMEA BABOS 84 mins 6-4 6-4 MARRAKECH 2013 HARD O R1 KRISTINA MLADENOVIC 174 mins 6-3 4-6 11-9 AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2011 HARD O R16 KRISTINA MLADENOVIC 3-6 6-2 6-3 $25k ITF - IRAPUATO

KRISTINA MLADENOVIC 57 45

14-05-1993 (25) $1,127,767 $8,085,452

0 / 1 2 / 18

16-18 / 162-164 7-4 / 53-52 0-6 / 43-42

TIMEA BABOS 38 49

10-05-1993 (25) $963,028

$5,086,143 1 / 3

2 / 18 0-0

16-16 / 111-135 3-8 / 37-54 3-6 / 33-45

WTA RANKING







0-0

14-8 / 74-78 9-9 / 86-101 1-2 / 9-12 0-1 / 6-13


9-9 / 64-97 15-12 / 131-152

1-11 / 27-81 9-15 / 67-125


Duration


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Season • Matched her best career result at Wimbledon by reaching 3r (l. eventual R-Up S. Williams) to finish the grass court swing with a 4-3 record

• Fell in 2r of Eastbourne (l. Barty) and Birmingham (l. Rybarikova) in preparation for the All England Club

• Finished clay season with back-to-back 1r exits at Rome (ret. against Sevastova w/dizziness) and Roland Garros (l. Petkovic)

• Reached QF stage in doubles at Paris (w/Babos, l. eventual R-Ups Hozumi/Ninomiya)

• Advanced to R16 at Madrid (l. Sharapova), after 1r exit in Stuttgart (l. Kontaveit after holding 2mp in second set)

• In doubles, was R-Up in Madrid (w/Babos, l. Makarova/Vesnina)

• Won two rubbers during France’s Fed Cup semifinal defeat against the United States. Defeated Vandeweghe in singles and w/Hesse beat

Mattek-Sands/Vandeweghe in doubles

• Retired during her 1r match with qualifier Korpatsch in Lugano due to a back injury

• Fell 3r at Indian Wells (l. Wang) and 2r at Miami (after 1r bye, l. Martic)

• Reached QF in Acapulco before falling to eventual champion Tsurenko

• Suffered 1r exit in Dubai (l. Osaka) after a 2r exit the week before at Doha (l. Blinkova)

• Won three matches in France’s Fed Cup World Group tie vs. Belgium in Mouilleron-le-Captif. Defeated Mertens and Flipkens in singles before

pairing up with Hesse to overcome Flipkens/Mertens in decisive doubles rubber

• Reached eighth career singles final at St. Petersburg (as defending champion, l. Kvitova). Record in WTA singles finals now stands at 1-7. Run to

St. Petersburg final brought first singles match wins since August 2017

• Started the season with 1r exits at Brisbane (l. eventual runner-up Sasnovich), Sydney (l. Perez via ret. heat illness) and Australian Open (l.

Bogdan)

• Won second career Grand Slam doubles title at Australian Open (w/Babos) – defeated Makarova/Vesnina in F

Career • Enjoyed best season of career in 2017, making Top 10 debut and lifting first WTA singles title having reached four finals

• Finished season at No.11 for highest year-end ranking and first inside Top 20. Broke into Top 10 on October 23, 2017

• Won first career singles title at Premier-level St Petersburg (d. Putintseva in F). Passed $5 million career prize money mark by winning title

• Reached biggest final of career at Premier-Mandatory level Madrid (l. Halep) and was R-Up at Acapulco (l. Tsurenko) and Stuttgart (l. Siegemund)

• Advanced to SF at Indian Wells (l. eventual champion Vesnina), en route defeating two seeds, No.4 Halep and No.13 Wozniacki. Result saw her

break into Top 20 in WTA Rankings for first time in career, and overtake Garcia to become French No.1

• Qualified as first alternate for 2017 WTA Finals but not called on to play

• Reached two singles finals in 2016, at ‘s-Hertogenbosch (l. Vandeweghe) and Hong Kong (l. Wozniacki), having been runner-up at 2015

Strasbourg (l. Stosur)

• Won four doubles titles in 2016 w/Garcia: Charleston (d. Mattek-Sands/Safarova), Stuttgart (d. Hingis/Mirza), Madrid (d. Hingis/Mirza) and

Roland Garros (Makarova/Vesnina). In addition, also finished runners-up at Sydney, Dubai, US Open and Beijing (all w/Garcia). Team qualified for

WTA Finals Singapore, losing in SF. By winning the tournament, could have become joint-World No.1s

• Member of French Fed Cup side that advanced to 2016 competition final against Czech Republic – lost epic singles rubber to Ka.Pliskova, 63 46

16-14 in 3 hours 48 minutes – 30-game final set being longest-ever in a Fed Cup final – as well as decisive doubles rubber (w/Garcia, l.

Pliskova/Strycova)

• Also qualified for 2015 WTA Finals in Singapore in doubles w/Babos. Went 1-2 in RR stage and failed to progress

• Overall has won 18 WTA doubles titles (18-12 record in finals). At Grand Slams won 2016 Roland Garros (w/Garcia) and finished R-Up at 2014

Wimbledon (w/Babos) and 2016 US Open (w/Garcia)

• Broke into Top 100 on September 17, 2012 and Top 50 on March 18, 2013

• Played first WTA qualifying event as wildcard at 2008 Paris [Indoors]

• Played first events of career on ITF Circuit in 2007

Grand Slam History • 2018 Wimbledon marked 31st main draw appearance at a Grand Slam, with best results being QF runs at 2015 US Open (l. Vinci) and 2017

Roland Garros (l. Bacsinszky)

• Also reached 3r at 2016 Australian Open (l. Gavrilova), 2015 Wimbledon (l. Azarenka) and 2018 Wimbledon (l. eventual R-Up S. Williams)

• In doubles, won first Grand Slam doubles title at 2016 Roland Garros (w/compatriot Garcia, d. Makarova/Vesnina in F) – were first French pair to

win the doubles title at Roland Garros since Gail Chanfreau and Francoise Durr in 1971

• Won second Grand Slam doubles title at 2018 Australian Open (w/Babos, d. Makarova/Vesnina in F)

• Finished R-Up at 2014 Wimbledon (w/Babos) and 2016 US Open (w/Garcia)

• Won mixed doubles titles at 2013 Wimbledon and 2014 Australian Open, and finished runner-up at 2013 Roland Garros and 2015 Australian

Open (all w/Nestor)

Other Information

• Mother is Dzenita (was a pro volleyball player); father is Dragan (was a pro handball player); brother is Luka (soccer player)

• Started playing tennis aged 8 when introduced to sport by parents

• Speaks French, English, Serbian, Italian and Spanish

• Currently without a full-time coach

BABOS:

San Jose • Contesting the Bay Area event for the first time in her career, having never previously played the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic’s predecessor in

Stanford

• Posted a 14-8 record on hardcourts earlier this season, including two finals appearances at Taipei City (WON) and Monterrey (R-Up)

• Faces long-time doubles partner No.57 Mladenovic for the eighth time in their careers. Trails all-time series 3-4 but has won last two meetings

(2016 Moscow and 2017 New Haven)

• While neither will participate in doubles competition at San Jose, the Babos/Mladenovic pairing has played in nine tournaments this season,

posting a 24-7 record, and won two titles (Australian Open and Birmingham)

• Babos/Mladenovic currently sit at No.2 in the Porsche Race to Singapore – Top 8 teams qualify for the WTA Finals in October

• Only Hungarian in the main draw this week

Season • Coming off 1r exits at Birmingham (l. Buzarnescu), Eastbourne (l. Radwanska) and Wimbledon (l. Tsurenko)

• Recorded 2r results in Rome (l. Garcia) and Strasbourg (l. Diyas) before a 1r loss at Roland Garros (l. Arruabarrena)

• Suffered back-to-back 1r exits at Rabat (l. Dulgheru) and Madrid (l. Goerges)

• Advanced to doubles final at Madrid (w/Mladenovic, l. Makarova/Vesnina in F)

• Reached eighth career final at Monterrey (l. Muguruza in F in 3s); is now 3-5 in WTA finals

• Made 2r showing at Miami (l. eventual R-Up Ostapenko) after 1r exit at Indian Wells (l. Bencic)

• Reached 2r at home event in Budapest (as defending champion, l. Barthel)

• Fell 1r at Doha (l. Mertens) after lifting third WTA singles title at Taipei City (d. Kozlova in F)

• At Australian Open, claimed career first Top 10 win over No.9 Vandeweghe in 1r (l. Suarez Navarro in 1r)

• Lifted maiden Grand Slam doubles trophy at Melbourne Park (w/Mladenovic, d. Makarova/Vesnina in F)

• Started off 2018 campaign with QF showing at Shenzhen (l. Begu) prior to 1r exit at Hobart (l. Tsurenko)

Career • Sixth straight Top 100 season in 2017, finishing at No.57 in singles and rising to a career-high of No.7 in doubles

• Reached a career-high three singles finals (R-Up at Quebec City and Tashkent), capturing the second WTA singles title of her career on home soil

in Budapest (d. Safarova in F)

• Produced an impressive season on the doubles court, claiming a career-high six titles, including hoisting the trophy at the WTA Finals in

Singapore (w/Hlavackova)

• Finished 2016 ranked No.26 – just one spot shy of her career-high ranking of No.25 (September 19, 2016)

• Qualified for the WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai; fell in round robin stage (0-2) to No.18 Bacsinszky and No.28 S.Zhang

• Reached third singles final of career at 2016 Florianopolis (l. Begu in F). Other 2016 highlights included SF appearances at Shenzhen (l. Riske)

and Rabat, and QF runs at St Petersburg (l. eventual champion Vinci), Katowice (l. Ostapenko), Cincinnati (l. Muguruza) and Moscow (l. eventual

champion Kuznetsova)

• Qualified for the 2016 WTA Finals in doubles w/Shvedova – fell in 1r (l. Mattek-Sands/Safarova); also qualified for 2015 WTA Finals

w/Mladenovic – pair exited at RR stage

• 2015 season was highlighted by a runner-up finish at Marrakech (l. Svitolina in F), winning the WTA 125K Series event in Taipei (d. Doi in F), and

three doubles titles, at Dubai, Marrackech and Rome (all w/Mladenovic)

• Highest ranked opponent beaten in career to date is No.9 Vandeweghe at 2018 Australian Open 1r

• Received WC into first WTA event of career at 2010 Budapest (l. Bacsinszky in 1r)

• On ITF Circuit, has won 13 singles and 10 doubles titles

• Hungarian Fed Cup Team, 2011-15 and 2017; Hungarian Olympic Team, 2012, 2016

• In juniors, was three-time doubles Grand Slam champion (2010 Roland Garros/Wimbledon/US Open – all w/Sloane Stephens) and two-time

runner-up (2009 Roland Garros, 2010 Australian Open)

Grand Slam History • 2018 Wimbledon marked 24th Grand Slam main draw appearance. Reached 3r at a major for the first time in her career at 2016 US Open (l.

Halep)

• Has reached 2r – but no further – at other three majors: Australian Open (2016, 2018), Wimbledon (2012, 2015, 2016) and Roland Garros

(2016, 2018)

• Won maiden Grand Slam doubles title at 2018 Australian Open (w/Mladenovic, d. Makarova/Vesnina in F)

• Two-time Grand Slam doubles runner-up, at 2014 Wimbledon (w/Mladenovic, l. Errani/Vinci) and 2016 Wimbledon (w/Shvedova, l.

S.Williams/V.Williams)

• Mixed doubles runner-up at 2015 Wimbledon (w/Peya l. Hingis/Paes in F)

Other Information • Father's name is Csaba; mother's name is Zsuzsanna; sister is Susie; started playing at age 8

• Tennis idol is Elena Dementieva

• Coached by Thomas Drouet

WANG QIANG:

San Jose

• Contesting the Bay Area event for the first time in her career, having never previously played the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic’s predecessor in Stanford

• Did not contest any events during North American hard court swing last year prior to appearing at US Open (l. Kasatkina in 1r)

• One of two Chinese players in the singles main draw (also Zhang Shuai, who plays Lapko today)

• Enters Sans Jose on five-match winning streak after lifting title at Nanchang last week, the first Tour-level title of her career

• Faces No.198 Anisimova today – loss would be worst by ranking since November 2017, falling to No.305 Lykina at WTA 125k Event in Hua Hin, Thailand

Season

• Lifted first Tour-level title of career last week in Nanchang (d. Zheng Saisai in F following ret. w/fatigue). Dropped only one set en route to title

• Had previously won WTA 125k Event in Zhengzhou, China, in 2017

• Only grass, only contested Wimbledon, falling 1r (l. Zheng Saisai)

• Enjoyed best result at Roland Garros by reaching 3r (l. Putintiseva). Defeated No.9 V.Williams in 1r (had lost to her in their two previous meetings) which is

best win rankings-wise of career (bettering defeat of No.10 Wozniacki at 2013 Kuala Lumpur)

• Prior to Roand Garros, made her first QF of the season, at Strasbourg (l. Barty)

• Made 1r exit in Madrid (l. Kasatkina) and fell in qualifying at Rome


WANG QIANG (CHN #53) vs. [Q] AMANDA ANISIMOVA (USA #198)

Head to Head: AMANDA ANISIMOVA leads 1-0

2018 HARD O R1 AMANDA ANISIMOVA 98 mins 6-3 1-6 6-2 MIAMI

WANG QIANG 53 53

14-01-1992 (26) $505,450

$1,942,938 1 / 1 0 / 0

14-12 / 52-63 5-4 / 15-26

1-2 / 9-7

AMANDA ANISIMOVA 198 164

31-08-2001 (16) $123,225 $236,056

0 / 0 0 / 0 0-0

4-1 / 4-3 1-0 / 1-2 0-1 / 0-1

WTA RANKING







0-0

4-1 / 4-2 9-6 / 40-44 0-1 / 1-4 1-0 / 1-1


7-8 / 22-32 9-11 / 37-58

2-1 / 2-1 4-1 / 4-2



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• Reached 2r in Prague before falling to Kr.Pliskova

• Suffered 1r exits in Miami (l. Anisimova) and Istanbul (l. Kuznetsova)

• Matched her career-best performance at a Premier Mandatory event by reaching R16 at Indian Wells (l. Halep); previously accomplished this at

2017 Madrid (l. Kuznetsova)

• Fell in 2r at Dubai (l. eventual champion Svitolina) and 1r at Doha (l. Keys)

• Opened 2018 season with 1r exits at Shenzhen (l. Riske) and Australian Open (l. Keys). Rose to new career-high rank of No.44 following Shenzhen

(January 8)

Career

• Achieved first Top 50 year-end finish in 2017, finishing as China’s No.3. Ascended 25 spots from No.70 in 2016 to No.45 in 2017, marking third

Top 100 season in four years

• Advanced to first WTA SF at 2017 Hong Kong (l. Pavlyuchenkova) and captured WTA 125K Series title in Zhengzhou

• Posted three victories vs. Top 20 opponents in 2017, defeating No.15 Vesnina (Rome), No.15 Mladenovic (Tokyo [PPO]) and No.17 Sloane

Stephens (Wuhan)

• 2016 highlights included QF runs at Shenzhen (l. A.Radwanska), Kuala Lumpur (l. Zhu), Hong Kong (l. Wozniacki) and WTA 125K Series event at

Dalian (l. Min)

• Reached 2r at 2016 US Open, upsetting No.23 seed Kasatkina in 1r (l. Shvedova)

• Represented China at Rio Olympics – l. Kuznetsova in 1r in three sets

• In 2016, posted a 14-1 record between March–May on the ITF Circuit, winning $50k ITF/Quanzhou-CHN and $100k ITF/Shenzhen-CHN, and

finishing runner-up at $75k ITF/Gifu-JPN

• Member of Chinese Fed Cup Team, 2012-2016

• On ITF Circuit, owns 13 singles and one doubles title

• Made WTA qualifying debut at 2007 Beijing and main draw debut at 2012 Baku

• Won Chinese U/16 Championships in 2006 and U/18 Championships in 2007

Grand Slam History

• 2018 Wimbledon marked 16th main draw appearance at a Grand Slam – win-loss record stands at 8-16 across the majors

• Reached 3r for the first time at 2018 Roland Garros (l. Putintseva)

• Previously had reached 2r on six occasions: at 2014 US Open (l. Dellacqua), 2015 US Open (l. Strycova), 2016 Australian Open (l. Friedsam),

2016 Roland Garros (l. Suárez Navarro), 2016 US Open (l. Shvedova) and 2017 Wimbledon (l. V.Williams)

• Made major debut at 2014 US Open

Other Information

• Began playing tennis aged nine as a way to keep fit

• Would have become a teacher if not a tennis player

• Admires Zheng Jie

• Coached by Peter McNamara

ANISIMOVA:

San Jose

• Making debut appearance at the Bay Area event, having not contested the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic’s predecessor in Stanford

• At 16, is the youngest player in main draw. Won her way through two rounds of qualifying (d. Hon, Blinkova)

• 2018 San Jose marks first event since Miami – forced to withdraw prior to 2r match vs. Muguruza with what turned out to be a right foot fracture. Spent

six weeks in a protective boot

• Her last win came over today’s opponent Wang Qiang in Miami 1r

• One of 12 women from USA to begin singles main draw

Season

• Prior to San Jose, reached 2r at Miami (as WC withdrew prior to match vs. Muguruza). Made WTA main draw debut at 2017 Miami (l. Townsend in

3s)

• Enjoyed breakout performance at Indian Wells, reaching R16 and defeating No.9 Kvitova en route (l. No.5 Ka.Pliskova)

• Became the first 16-year old to reach Indian Wells R16 since Kutuzova in 2005

• Indian Wells and Miami results saw her post a new career-high ranking of No.126 (April 9, 2018)

• Prior to 2018 Indian Wells had played only two tour-level main draw matches (l. Townsend at 2017 Miami; l. Nara 2017 Roland Garros), adding her first

three tour-level main draw wins (No.94 Parmentier, No.23 Pavlyuchenkova, No.9 Kvitova) before losing in R16 to No.5 Pliskova

• Reached SF at WTA 125K Series event staged at Indian Wells Tennis Garden (as qualifier, l. eventual champion Errani)

• Made 2r at WTA 125K Series event at Newport Beach (as qualifier, l. Hibi)

• At 16 years old, may play a maximum of 16 professional events per year (between her 16th birthday on August 31, 2017 and the day before her 17th

birthday, August 30, 2018)

Career

• Ended 2017 ranked No.192 (up from No.761 in 2016)

• Fell 1r at Miami (as wildcard, l. Townsend) and Roland Garros (as wildcard, l. Nara) – won first set in both matches

• Contested qualifying at 2017 US Open. In final event of season, reached 2r at WTA 125k Series event at Honolulu (l. Jang)

• Also in 2017, reached four ITF Circuit finals, winning $60k ITF/Sacramento, CA-USA and finishing R-Up at $25k ITF/Curtiba-BRA, $80k ITF/Indian

Harbour Beach, FL-USA and $60k ITF/Dothan, AL-USA

• Made professional debut during qualifying draw for 2016 US Open (d. No.123 Cepede Royg 6-3 6-4, l. Hozumi in final set tie-break in 2r)

• Reached No.2 in junior world rankings

Grand Slam History

• Made Grand Slam main draw debut at 2017 Roland Garros (as wildcard, led 6-3 4-2 before losing to Nara in 1r)

• Also fell in qualifying at US Open in 2016 and 2017

• In juniors, won US Open girls’ singles in 2017 and was R-Up at 2016 Roland Garros

Other Information

• Coached by father Konstantin

• Mother is Olga, both parents were born and raised in Moscow; sister Maria Anisimova-Egee played tennis at University of Pennsylvania and now lives in

New York

• Born in New Jersey but moved to Miami at age of 3


HEATHER WATSON (GBR #133) vs. [WC] CLAIRE LIU (USA #154)


HEATHER WATSON 133 137

19-05-1992 (26) $365,859

$3,101,068 0 / 3 1 / 4

6-14 / 99-133 1-3 / 36-52 2-4 / 24-37

CLAIRE LIU 154 126

25-05-2000 (18) $158,344 $268,117

0 / 0 0 / 0 0-1

4-5 / 4-7 3-2 / 3-3 1-2 / 1-5

WTA RANKING







1-1

1-2 / 1-4 3-6 / 61-80 0-3 / 10-9 0-1 / 0-1

0-0 / 2-17 0-1 / 0-1 0-1 / 8-35 0-2 / 0-2




Result

SAN JOSE Tournament History HEATHER WATSON 2012

L - YANINA WICKMAYER (BEL #37) R16 5-7 6-1 6-4

CLAIRE LIU 2017

R1 L - NICOLE GIBBS (USA #128) 4-6 6-2 7-6(5)


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WATSON:

San Jose

• Made one previous appearance at Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic’s predecessor in Stanford, reaching 2r there in 2012 (d. Stephens, l. Wickmayer)

• One of two women from Great Britain to begin singles main draw (also Konta, who plays S.Williams today)

• Last week dropped to No.134 in rankings – her lowest ranking since February 2014 (at No.161)

• Faces No.153 Liu today for first time in career today – has lost to players outside Top 100 on four occasions this season, against No.147 Vinci (St Petersburg qualifying), No.204 Azarenka (Indian Wells), No.118 Townsend (Charleston) and No.203 Stollar (Nurnberg)

• A win would mark her 100th career victory at main draw, tour level

• Playing doubles this week/Buzarnescu – team defeated Culibrk/Gauvain in 1r, and face Konta/Zhang in 2r

Season

• Enters San Jose on a four-match losing streak, which began with 2r loss at Nottingham (Konta) and has stretched to Birmingham (l. Tsurenko), Eastbourne (l. Mladenovic) and Wimbledon (l. Flipkens). Finished R-Up in doubles w/Buzarnescu at Nottingham (l. Rosolska/Spears)

• Prior to Nottingham, fell 1r at $100k ITF/Surbiton-GBR (l. Taylor)

• Reached 2r at Roland Garros (l. No.16 seed Mertens)

• European clay season also brought a 1r exit at Prague (l. Schmiedlova) and 2r exit at Nürnberg (l. Stollar)

• 1r defeat of K.Bondarenko at Nürnberg ended eight-match losing streak at tour events going back to SF run at Hobart in January (l. Mertens)

• Made 1r exits at Charleston (l. Townsend), Miami (l. Haddad Maia), Indian Wells (l. Azarenka), Acapulco (l. Haddad Maia), St Petersburg qualifying (l. Vinci), Australian Open (l. Putintseva)

• Won fourth career doubles title at Acapulco (w/Maria d. Christian/Santamaria in F)

• In February, won all three singles rubbers to help Great Britain advance from Europe/Africa Zone Group I and set up a World Group II play-off against Japan in April

• Began season with 1r exit at Brisbane (as qualifier, l. Kontaveit)

Career

• Six Top 100 finishes in past seven years, including one Top 50 season in 2012. Best year-end finish came in 2012 (No.49)

• Highlights of 2017 were SF run at Eastbourne (l. Wozniacki) and QF showings at Monterrey (l. Kerber) and Luxembourg (l. Mertens). Finished R-Up in Wimbledon mixed doubles (w/Kontinen, as defending champions)

• Won third WTA singles title of career at 2016 Monterrey (d. Flipkens in F), adding to wins at 2012 Osaka and 2015 Hobart (3-0 record in finals)

• Hit career-high singles ranking of No.38 on January 19, 2015 after title run at Hobart

• Lifetime record against Top 10 players stands at 2-17, with wins coming against No.8 A.Radwanska (2015 Indian Wells) and No.9 Cibulkova (2017 Eastbourne)

• In doubles owns four titles, most recently at 2018 Acapulco (w/Maria)

• Represented Great Britain at 2016 Rio Olympics, reaching 2r in singles (l. Svitolina), 2r in doubles (w/Konta, l. H.Chan/Y.Chan) and QF in mixed doubles (w/A.Murray, l. Bopanna/Mirza)

• Struggled throughout 2014 season with a right rib injury and missed two months in 2013 due to glandular fever (Miami to Roland Garros)

• Enjoyed a breakthrough 2012 season, winning Osaka to become first British woman to win a WTA singles title since Sara Gomer in 1988. Finished year as British No.1

• With 2012 Osaka singles title, became first British woman to win a WTA singles title since Sara Gomer in 1988

• Broke into Top 100 on June 6, 2011 and made Top 50 debut on October 15, 2012

• On ITF Circuit, winner of five singles and two doubles titles

• Made WTA main draw debut as a wildcard at 2010 Miami and recorded first main draw match win at 2010 Eastbourne

• Played first professional event on ITF Circuit at 2009 ITF/Jersey-GBR

• Member of Great Britain Fed Cup Team, 2011-18 and Great Britain Olympic Team, 2012, 2016

Grand Slam History

• 2018 Wimbledon marked 29th main draw appearance at a Grand Slam

• Best showings are 3r runs at Wimbledon in 2012, 2015 and 2017, and Australian Open in 2013

• Reached 2r at Roland Garros on five occasions. Has never been beyond 1r at US Open in seven attempts

• Won mixed doubles title at All England Club in 2016 (w/Kontinen, d. Farah/Groenefeld in F) and finished R-Up in 2017 (w/Kontinen, l. Hingis/Murray)

• Won US Open junior singles title in 2009

Other Information

• Coached by Morgan Phillips

• Born on Channel Island of Guernsey. Mother is Michelle and father is Ian; siblings are Adam, Stephanie and Julie

• Started playing at age 7; moved to Bollettieri Academy in Florida at age 12 (still trains there)

LIU:

San Jose

• Made one previous appearance at Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic’s predecessor in Stanford, posting 1r exit there in 2017 (as WC, l. Gibbs)

• Enters the main draw again this year on a Wild Card, and faces Watson in 1r

• Additional Wild Cards were given to Muguruza, V.Williams and Kratzer

• One of 12 American women to begin San Jose singles main draw this week

Season

• Coming off reaching 2r at Bucharest (as qualifier, l. eventual R-Up Martic)

• Made debut at Wimbledon, which marked second main draw appearance at a Grand Slam. Won her way through qualifying, defeated Konjuh in 1r

before falling to eventual champion Kerber in 3s. Previously qualified for 2017 US Open (l. Duan in 1r)

• Won the Wimbledon girls’ singles title in 2017 and doubles title in 2016 (w/Arconada)

• Defeat of Konjuh in Wimbledon 1r was third career win at tour-level. Claimed first two tour-level wins earlier this year at Miami (d. Osuigwe) and

Charleston (d. Linette)

• Best win-by-ranking of career came over No.69 Linette at 2018 Charleston – her sole Top 100 win of her career

• Played two grass court events leading up to Wimbledon, including 2r run at $100k ITF/Manchester-GBR (l. Rodina) and qualifying exit at $100k

ITF/Ilkley-GBR

• Fell in qualifying at Roland Garros

• Made back-to-back 1r exits at $80k ITF/Charleston-USA and $100k ITF/Trnava 2-SVK (as lucky loser, l. Larsson)

• Reached 2r at Charleston (as qualifier, l. Begu). Scored best win of career over No.69 Linette in 1r

• Achieved career-high ranking of No.181 following Charleston (April 9, 2018)

• Notched career first tour-level win at Miami over Osuigwe (as wildcard, l. Barty in 2r) after 1r exit at Indian Wells (as wildcard, l. Kenin)

• Fell in qualifying at WTA 125K Series event staged at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden (l. eventual champion Errani)

• Made 2r at WTA 125K Series event at Newport Beach (l. Jang)

• Other four appearances in 2018 came on ITF Circuit: reached 2r at $25k ITF/Orlando, FL-USA and made 1r exits at $25k ITF/Surprise, AZ-USA, $25k

ITF/Daytona Beach, FL-USA and $25k ITF/Rancho Santa Fe, CA-USA

Career

• Ended 2017 ranked No.263 (up from No.672 in 2016)

• Fell 1r at Stanford (l. Gibbs) and US Open (as qualifier, l. Duan). Also contested qualifying at Indian Wells and Québec City

• Other 2017 highlights were second and third ITF Circuit titles, at $25k ITF/Naples, FL-USA (as qualifier, d. Collins in F) and $25k ITF/Caserta-ITA (d.

Badosa Gibert in F)

• Fell in qualifying at 2015 US Open and 2016 Miami

• Won first of three ITF Circuit titles at $10k ITF/Orlando, FL-USA

• Played first matches on ITF Circuit in 2014, qualifying at $25k ITF/Florence (lost 1r)

Grand Slam History

• Made Grand Slam main draw debut at 2017 US Open (as qualifier, l. Duan)

• Best result at a major is 2r run at 2018 Wimbledon (l. eventual champion Kerber in 3s)

• Fell in qualifying at 2015 US Open and 2018 Roland Garros

• In juniors, won the Wimbledon girls’ singles in 2017, becoming the first American girl to win the event since Chanda Rubin in 1992. With this success,

rose to No.1 in the ITF girls' junior rankings

• Also won Wimbledon girls’ doubles in 2016 w/Arconada. At 2017 Roland Garros lost to Osuigwe in singles F

Other Information

• Born in Thousand Oaks, California

• Hobbies are reading, listening to music, travel and cooking

• Coached by Chris Tontz


VICTORIA AZARENKA (BLR #108) vs. KATERYNA BONDARENKO (UKR #79)

Head to Head: VICTORIA AZARENKA leads 4-0

2010 HARD O R1 VICTORIA AZARENKA 58 mins 6-1 6-1 MONTREAL 2010 HARD O R2 VICTORIA AZARENKA 25 mins 4-1 (ret. w/left knee injury) DUBAI 2009 HARD O R1 VICTORIA AZARENKA 50 mins 6-0 6-2 BRISBANE 2007 HARD O R16 VICTORIA AZARENKA 6-1 6-2 LOS ANGELES

VICTORIA AZARENKA 108 76

31-07-1989 (28) $604,052

$29,035,241 0 / 20 0 / 6

9-7 / 421-155 2-2 / 79-53 2-1 / 62-40

KATERYNA BONDARENKO 79 108

08-08-1986 (31) $358,621

$3,794,839 0 / 2 0 / 3 2-4

4-10 / 133-179 3-4 / 50-59 2-1 / 36-49

WTA RANKING







5-3

2-4 / 79-105 6-2 / 288-89 0-1 / 44-13 0-2 / 11-13

1-2 / 64-63 0-1 / 8-25 3-4 / 114-88 1-1 / 20-61




Rnd Result Duration

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AZARENKA:

San Jose

• Prior to inaugural event here in San Jose, had made four previous appearance at tournament’s predecessor in Stanford, lifting the title there in 2010 (d.

Sharapova in F)

• Is making first appearance at the Bay Area event after an absence of four years, falling to V.Williams in 2r in 2014 (after 1r bye)

• Her title run in 2010 marked the only occasion she has tasted any sort of success at this event, after opening match losses in 2007 (l. Kirilenko), 2011

(l. Erakovic after 1r bye) and 2014 (l. V.Williams after 1r bye)

• Faces No.79 and fellow mother Ka.Bondarenko today – loss would be worst-by-ranking of 2018, and worst-by-ranking outright since 2016 Roland

Garros (l. No.118 Knapp – although has played only a handful events in that time)

• Owns a perfect 4-0 record vs. Ka. Bondarenko – has also never lost a set and only dropped eight games

• Did not contest summer US swing last year due to personal reasons

Season

• San Jose marks first event since 2r exit at Wimbledon (l. Ka.Pliskova) in what was her 12th appearance at the All England Club. 1r win over Alexandrova

was 122nd Grand Slam main draw win – ranks sixth among active players. In only other grass court event, made 2r exit at Mallorca (l. Safarova)

• In mixed doubles at SW19, reached the final w/J.Murray, losing to Peya/Melichar • Posted back-to-back 1r exits at Rome (l. Osaka) and Roland Garros (l. Siniakova)

• Suffered 2r exit at Madrid (l. Ka.Pliskova). Saw off Krunic in 1r to register her first win on clay in two years (d. Cornet in 2r at 2016 Madrid)

• Made SF run at Miami (as WC, l. eventual champion Stephens). Upset No.15 Keys, No.17 Sevastova and No.6 Ka.Pliskova to register multiple Top 20

wins at same tournament for first time since 2016 Miami title run

• Returned to Top 100 (at No.92) after SF run at Miami

• Fell 2r at Indian Wells, defeating Watson in 1r before falling to Stephens


VICTORIA AZARENKA 2014

L - VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #25) R16 6-4 7-6(1)

2011 L - MARINA ERAKOVIC (NZL #121) R16 4-6 7-5 6-2

2010 W - MARIA SHARAPOVA (RUS #15) F 6-4 6-1

2007 L - MARIA KIRILENKO (RUS #45) R1 3-6 7-5 6-4

KATERYNA BONDARENKO 2017

R16 L - PETRA KVITOVA (CZE #14) 6-2 6-2

2016 R1 L - URSZULA RADWANSKA (POL #156) 6-4 7-5

2015 R1 L - ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #20) 4-6 6-4 7-5

2008 R16 L - DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA (SVK #32) 6-2 6-3

2006 R1-Q L - LIOUDMILA SKAVRONSKAIA (RUS #135) 6-2 7-5


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Grand Slam History • 2018 Wimbledon marked 44th main draw appearance at a Grand Slam

• Is a two‐time Grand Slam champion, winning the Australian Open in 2012 (d. Sharapova in F) and again in 2013 (d. Li in F). Also a two‐time Grand

Slam runner‐up, at 2012 and 2013 US Open (losing to S.Williams both times in 3s)

• Reached Wimbledon SF in 2011 and 2012, while best result at Roland Garros has been SF appearance in 2013

• Three Grand Slam doubles R-Up, at 2008 Australian Open (w/Peer), 2009 Roland Garros (w/Vesnina) and 2011 Australian Open (w/Kirilenko).

Two-time Grand Slam mixed doubles champion, at 2007 US Open (w/Mirnyi) and 2008 Roland Garros (w/B.Bryan). Most recently finished as mixed

doubles R-Up at 2018 Wimbledon (w/J.Murray)

• Won girls’ singles titles at the Australian Open and US Open in 2005

Career

• Made return to tennis in June 2017 following birth of first child Leo in December 2016

• Comeback tournament was on the grass of 2017 Mallorca, reaching 2r (d. Ozaki, l. Konjuh). Prior to 2017 Mallorca, last tournament contested was

2016 Roland Garros (1r)

• Followed this up with R16 showing at 2017 Wimbledon (l. Halep). Did not play any tournaments after Wimbledon due to personal reasons

• Ended 2016 ranked No.13, despite missing second half of season after going on maternity leave (announced pregnancy mid-July). Lifted three titles, at

Brisbane (first title since 2013 Cincinnati) and ‘Sunshine Double’ of Indian Wells and Miami – third woman to achieve feat after Graf in 1994 and 1996

and Clijsters in 2005

• Miami marked 20th tour-level singles title of career (20-16 record in finals)

• Posted 26‐3 record for first six months of 2016 with losses coming at the Australian Open (QF, l. Kerber), Rome (2r, l. Begu) and Roland Garros (ret. vs.

Knapp w/right knee injury)

• Limited to total of 23 events over 2014-15 seasons due to variety of injuries

• Posted five consecutive Top 10 finishes between 2009 and 2013, qualifying for the WTA Finals on each occasion, reaching final at Istanbul in 2011 (l.

Kvitova)

• Two-time Grand Slam champion, capturing back-to-back titles at the Australian Open in 2012 (d. Sharapova in F) and 2013 (d. Li in F). Also two-time

finalist at US Open, in 2012 and 2013, falling to S.Williams on both occasions

• Ascended to World No.1 after 2012 Australian Open and held top spot for a total of 51 weeks

• Began 2012 with 26-match win streak – best start since Hingis went 37-0 in 1997. Went on to win tour-leading 69 matches in 2012, season

highlighted by six titles, finishing as WTA’s year-end No.1

• Owns 3‐9 record vs. World No.1s, with wins coming over S.Williams at 2009 Miami, 2013 Cincinnati and 2016 Indian Wells. Losses were to Safina

(2009 Roland Garros), Wozniacki (2011 Indian Wells) and S.Williams (2010 Australian Open, 2013 Rome, 2013 US Open, 2013 Brisbane, 2015

Madrid, 2015 Roland Garros, 2015 Wimbledon)

• Won two medals for Belarus at 2012 London Olympics – bronze in singles and mixed doubles gold (w/Mirnyi)

• Made WTA main draw debut at 2005 Kolkata

• ITF Junior World Champion for 2005 – reached first tour-level semifinal at Guangzhou the same year

Other Information

• Coached by Benjamin Ebrahimzadeh. Formerly coached by Wim Fissette, Sam Sumyk and Michael Joyce

• Gave birth to son Leo in December 2016

• Introduced to tennis at age 7 by mother Alla; father's name is Fedor and older brother is Max

• At 15, moved from hometown Minsk to train in Scottsdale, Arizona

K.BONDARENKO:

San Jose

• Prior to inaugural event here in San Jose, had made four previous main draw appearances at tournament’s predecessor in Stanford, best result coming

with 2r runs in 2008 (l. Cibulkova) and 2017 (l. Kvitova). Fell in 2006 qualifying

• Faces fellow mother and No.108 Azarenka today in 1r – has not lost to a player outside Top 100 in a tour-level main draw match for over a year, falling

to No.290 Martic at 2017 Roland Garros

• Not only bidding for first win vs. Azarenka in fifth meeting, but also attempting to win a set off the Belarusian for the first time

• Contesting doubles draw this week w/Savinykh – team face Garcia Perez/Hon in 1r

• Sole representative from Ukraine in the singles draw – Kichenok sisters Lyudmyla and Nadiia contesting doubles

Season

• Contesting first event since 1r exit at Wimbledon (l. Safarova). Other grass court swing results included falling in Birmingham qualifying and reaching 2r

at Eastbourne (as qualifier, l. Kvitova)

• Fell 1r at Roland Garros (l. Vekic) and Nurnberg (l. Watson). Made qualifying exit at Madrid after 2r run at Istanbul (l. eventual R-Up Hercog)

• Opened 2018 clay court swing at Charleston, falling in 1r (l. Cornet)

• During Sunshine Double swing, fell 1r at Miami (l. Van Uytvanck) and fell in Indian Wells qualifying

• Posted R-Up finish at WTA $125k Series event at Indian Wells (l. Errani in F). Jumped 10 spots in the rankings from No.84 to No.74 following this result

• As qualifier, fell 1r at Doha (l. Suarez Navarro)

• Equaled best result at Australian Open with 3r showing (l. Rybarikova). Scored 20th career win over a Top 20 player against No.18 Pavlyuchenkova at

Melbourne

• Open 2018 season with 1r exit at Brisbane (as qualifier, l. Bellis) before Sydney qualifying exit

Career

• Finished 2017 at No.95, marking her seventh non-consecutive Top 100 finish

• Ended the year as Ukrainian No.4, behind Svitolina, Tsurenko and Kozlova

• 2017 singles season highlighted by winning her second career WTA title at Tashkent (d. No.52 Babos); won first career WTA singles title on grass at

2008 Birmingham (d. Wickmayer in F)

• Posted one win over a Top 10 opponent in 2017 (No.7 Muguruza at Dubai via ret.)

• Runner-up in doubles at 2016 New Haven (w/Chuang) – was first tour-level final of any kind since 2011 Hobart

• Season highlights in 2015 included reaching two QFs – at Istanbul, upsetting V.Williams in 1r (as qualifier, l. eventual champion Tsurenko) and Tokyo

[Japan Open] (l. eventual champion Wickmayer)

• Won her way through qualifying at 10 events in 2015 and seven events in 2016

• Nominated for WTA Comeback Player Award in 2015 (media vote; won by V.Williams)

• Made return to tour in April 2014 (fell in qualifying at Katowice). At the Slams, went on to fall in qualifying at 2014-15 Roland Garros, and 2015

Australian Open and Wimbledon, before winning her way through to main draw at 2015 US Open (d. Putintseva, l. Halep)

• Achieved career-high rank of No.29 in October 2009

• Winner of three doubles titles, all w/A.Bondarenko – 2008 Australian Open, 2008 Paris [Indoors] and 2009 Prague – and a four-time runner-up

• Ukrainian Fed Cup Team, 2005-2012, 2016. Was a member of the team that helped secure promotion to World Group for first time in 2010

Grand Slam History

• 2018 Wimbledon marked 36th Grand Slam main draw appearance

• At 2009 US Open became first Ukrainian woman to reach QF at a Grand Slam (since matched by Svitolina at 2015 and 2017 Roland Garros).

Additionally has made 3r at all of the majors: Australian Open (2009 and 2016), Roland Garros (2009, 2018), Wimbledon (2011) and US Open (2016)

• Played all four Grand Slams in 2016, for first time since 2012

• 2015 US Open marked first Grand Slam appearance since 2012 US Open (l. Jankovic 1r) – immediately after that event took time away from tour to give

birth to daughter Karin, who arrived in 2013

• Captured first and only Grand Slam title of any kind in 2008, winning the doubles event with partner A.Bondarenko

• Junior singles champion at 2004 Wimbledon (d. Ivanovic in final)

Other Information

• Throughout career coached by parents, Vladimir and Natalia

• Married Kiev businessman Denis Volodko, who is also her full-time coach, on 29 September 2011

• Gave birth to her daughter, Karin, in 2013

Player Profile & Performance - SAN JOSESAN JOSE, USA, CA JULY 30 - AUGUST 5, 2018 | USD $799,000 PREMIER

All data as at Monday, 30 Jul 2018

STATS MD YTD (2018) MD CAREER ALL YTD (2018) ALL CAREER

Tournament (SAN JOSE) W - L - 6 - 3 - 7 - 4

DOB Jul 3, 1990 (28)

Residence Nashville, TN, USA

Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand)

Height 5' 9" (1.75 m)

Prize Career $2,985,296

Prize YTD $328,549

Career High Singles Rank 36 (May 15 2017)

Career High Doubles Rank 78 (Oct 20 2014)

Tie Break W - L 4 - 7 29 - 39 4 - 9 66 - 78

WTA Singles Titles - YTD / Career 0 / 1

WTA Doubles Titles - YTD / Career 0 / 0

Surface (HARD) W - L 5 - 5 63 - 70 7 - 8 201 - 155

Surface (CLAY) W - L 4 - 3 16 - 27 4 - 5 61 - 64

Surface (GRASS) W - L 5 - 3 35 - 23 12 - 3 63 - 30

Top 5 W - L 0 - 2 1 - 9 0 - 2 1 - 9

Top 10 W - L 1 - 2 5 - 22 1 - 2 5 - 22

Top 20 W - L 2 - 3 12 - 42 2 - 3 12 - 42

Top 100 W - L 11 - 9 83 - 106 11 - 9 112 - 126

vs. Left Hander W - L 1 - 1 10 - 7 1 - 1 13 - 23

67SinglesRanking

1 Set W - L 8 - 5 89 - 23 17 - 6 270 - 51


Tournament (SAN JOSE) W - L 0 - 0 6 - 3 0 - 0 7 - 4

Grand Slam W - L 1 - 3 15 - 26 1 - 3 22 - 35

Overall W - L 14 - 11 114 - 123 23 - 16 326 - 254

3 Set W - L 6 - 6 38 - 49 7 - 9 96 - 104

PERFORMANCE - SINGLES*

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SERVICE RECORD YTD 2018 RETURN RECORD YTD 2018

Aces 46 1st Serve Return Points Won 37.9%

Double Faults 100 2nd Serve Return Points Won 57.6%

1st Serve 67.7% Break Point Opportunities 247

1st Serve Points Won 61.7% Break Points Converted 44.1%

2nd Serve Points Won 47.0% Return Games Played 283

Break Points Faced 222 Return Games Won 38.5%

Break Points Saved 59% Return Points Won 45.4%

Service Games Played 278 Total Points Won 51.1%

Service Games Won 67.3%

Service Points Won 57.0%

MATCH FACTS**2018 Events: 11 Played 2018 Matches: 25 Played (14 - 11 win-loss)

*Stats include active tournament results

**Stats are for main draw matches at WTA and Grand Slam eventsonly.and includes active tournament results. Fed Cup matches excluded.

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STATS MD YTD (2018) MD CAREER ALL CAREER# of Match Appearances 32 446 594

Best Previous Results (SAN JOSE)

4 appearances at SAN JOSE:- SF Main Draw in 2016 (l. Venus Williams 6-1 7-6(2))- QF Main Draw in 2015 (l. Elina Svitolina 4-6 7-5 6-1)- R16 Main Draw in 2017 (l. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-4 6-0)- R16 Qualifying in 2010 (l. Mashona Washington 6-1 6-4)

2018 Season Summary

GS PM P5 P IS OtherF - - - - 1 1 2SF - - - - 1 1 2QF - - - - 4 1 5Other 4 3 0 - 12 4 23

TOURNAMENT HISTORY - SINGLES

GS=Grand Slams PM=Premier Mandatory P5=Premier 5 P=Premier IS=International Other=Fed Cup, WTA Finals, Tournament of Champs

17 tournaments in 2018: ** indicates opening match at tournament

- W in Surbiton (d. Conny Perrin 6-2 6-4)- F Main Draw in Nürnberg (l. Johanna Larsson 7-6(4) 6-4)- QF Main Draw in Mallorca (l. Samantha Stosur 6-4 6-2)- QF Main Draw in 's-hertogenbosch (l. Coco Vandeweghe 7-6(6) 3-6 7-6(12))- QF Main Draw in Hobart (l. Mihaela Buzarnescu 7-6(5) 6-1)- R16 Main Draw in Monterrey (l. Garbiñe Muguruza 6-2 6-3)- R16 Main Draw in Shenzhen (l. Maria Sharapova 4-6 6-3 6-2)- R3 Main Draw in Miami (l. Yafan Wang 4-6 6-3 7-6(4))- R2 Main Draw in Wimbledon (l. Belinda Bencic 1-6 7-6(10) 6-2)**R1 Main Draw in Roland Garros (l. Simona Halep 2-6 6-1 6-1)**R1 Main Draw in Bogota (l. Dalila Jakupovic 6-2 6-2)**R1 Main Draw in Indian Wells 125k (l. Richel Hogenkamp 4-6 6-2 6-2)**R1 Main Draw in Newport Beach (l. Mayo Hibi 6-3 6-4)**R1 Main Draw in Australian Open (l. Kirsten Flipkens 2-6 7-6(6) 6-3)**R1 Qualifying in Rome (l. Aryna Sabalenka 6-3 1-6 6-3)**R1 Qualifying in Madrid (l. Danielle Collins 7-6(2) 3-6 7-6(3))**R1 Qualifying in Indian Wells (l. Barbora Krejcikova 7-5 6-4)

BEST WIN OF THE SEASON (win against highest ranked Opponent)W in Surbiton (d. Conny Perrin (SUI #0) 6-2 6-4 0QF Main Draw in Surbiton (d. Kristie Ahn (USA #0) 6-0 6-4) 0R16 Main Draw in Surbiton (d. Katy Dunne (GBR #0) 7-5 6-0) 0R1 Main Draw in Surbiton (d. Irina Falconi (USA #0) 7-5 6-1) 0SF Main Draw in Surbiton (d. Priscilla Hon (AUS #0) 7-5 6-3) 0

ALISON RISKE







2017 - Fifth consecutive Top 100 season at No.70, ending the year as the No.12 American woman… Highlight was finishing R-up in firsttournament of the year at Shenzhen (l. Siniakova)… Also reached QFs at Nürnberg and made 3r at both Australian Open and Wimbledon…Achieved career-high ranking of No.36 on May 15, 2017… Part of Fed Cup winning USA team – went 1-0 in quarterfinal win over Germany. 2016 - Career-best season (finished ranked No.41); runner-up three times at Shenzhen (l. to A.Radwanska), Nottingham (l. to Ka.Pliskova) andTianjin (l. to Peng); SF at Stanford (l. to V.Williams); QF twice at Tokyo Int’l (l. to Siniakova) and Guangzhou (l. to Tsurenko); 2r four times, 1rnine times (incl. all Grand Slams); fell in WTA qualifying five times; reached SF at WTA 125K Series event at San Antonio (l. to Friedsam). 2015 - Third straight Top 100 season (finishing No.97); SF twice at Hobart (l. to Watson) and Nottingham (l. to Konjuh); QF at Stanford;reached 2r seven times; fell 1r 14 times (incl. all four majors) and in qualifying twice. 2014 - First Top 50 season (finishing No.45); won one WTA title at Tianjin (d. Bencic in final); QF twice at Hobart and New Haven; reached 3rfour times (incl. Australian Open and Wimbledon) and 2r seven times (incl. Roland Garros); fell 1r nine times (incl. US Open) and in qualifyingonce; made Top 50 debut on January 27 (after Australian Open; rose from No.53 to No.47); withdrew from Marrakech and Oeiras w/low backinjury. 2013 - Breakthrough near-first Top 50 season (finishing No.57); did not play a WTA main draw in first five months of year (fell in qualifying fivetimes - incl. Australian Open and Roland Garros); from June through end of season played six WTA main draws, reaching SF once atBirmingham (l. to Hantuchova), 4r once (US Open), 3r once (Wimbledon) and 2r twice; fell 1r once and in qualifying three times; having goneinto Birmingham ranked No.167, made Top 100 debut on July 22 (rose from No.107 to No.96) and peaked at No.56 on October 7. 2012 - Fell 1r four times (incl. Australian Open) and in qualifying six times (incl. other three majors). 2011 - QF at Birmingham; fell 1r seven times (incl. Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open) and in qualifying six times; won two singlestitles on ITF Circuit. 2010 - Played first four WTA main draws, reaching one SF at Birmingham (l. to Sharapova) but falling 1r three times (Charleston, Wimbledonand Québec City); fell in qualifying nine times (incl. Roland Garros and US Open); won four singles titles on ITF Circuit. 2009 - Fell in WTA qualifying five times (incl. US Open); won one singles title and one doubles title on ITF Circuit. 2008 - Fell in WTA qualifying once. 2007 - Played first WTA qualifying at US Open (as WC). 2006 - Played at ITF/Pittsburgh-USA. 2005 - Played at ITF/Pittsburgh-USA. 2004 - Played first event of career at ITF/Pittsburgh-USA.

SINGLES Winner (1): 2014 - Tianjin. Finalist (5): 2018 - Nürnberg; 2017 - Shenzhen; 2016 - Shenzhen, Nottingham, Tianjin. ADDITIONAL American Fed Cup Team, 2014-15, 2017.

GRAND SLAM

W / L

AUSTRALIAN OPEN 4 - 7

ROLAND GARROS 1 - 5

WIMBLEDON 7 - 8

US OPEN 3 - 6

TOTAL 15 - 26

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

CAREER IN REVIEW

OTHER INFORMATION

Coached by Yves Boulais ... Parents, Albert and Carol, are retired; sister is Sarah McGlamery (formerly coached her), brother is Daniel ...Started playing tennis at age 3 (siblings did and father started her too) ... Aggressive style of play; liked watching Monica Seles ... Earned tennisscholarship to Vanderbilt University in summer 2009; after good results and finding backing decided to play on WTA ... Enjoys writing (keeps ajournal), reading and spending time with family and friends ... If hadn't been a tennis player, would have gone into medicine.

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ALISON RISKE







2017 - Fifth consecutive Top 100 season at No.70, ending the year as the No.12 American woman… Highlight was finishing R-up in firsttournament of the year at Shenzhen (l. Siniakova)… Also reached QFs at Nürnberg and made 3r at both Australian Open and Wimbledon…Achieved career-high ranking of No.36 on May 15, 2017… Part of Fed Cup winning USA team – went 1-0 in quarterfinal win over Germany. 2016 - Career-best season (finished ranked No.41); runner-up three times at Shenzhen (l. to A.Radwanska), Nottingham (l. to Ka.Pliskova) andTianjin (l. to Peng); SF at Stanford (l. to V.Williams); QF twice at Tokyo Int’l (l. to Siniakova) and Guangzhou (l. to Tsurenko); 2r four times, 1rnine times (incl. all Grand Slams); fell in WTA qualifying five times; reached SF at WTA 125K Series event at San Antonio (l. to Friedsam). 2015 - Third straight Top 100 season (finishing No.97); SF twice at Hobart (l. to Watson) and Nottingham (l. to Konjuh); QF at Stanford;reached 2r seven times; fell 1r 14 times (incl. all four majors) and in qualifying twice. 2014 - First Top 50 season (finishing No.45); won one WTA title at Tianjin (d. Bencic in final); QF twice at Hobart and New Haven; reached 3rfour times (incl. Australian Open and Wimbledon) and 2r seven times (incl. Roland Garros); fell 1r nine times (incl. US Open) and in qualifyingonce; made Top 50 debut on January 27 (after Australian Open; rose from No.53 to No.47); withdrew from Marrakech and Oeiras w/low backinjury. 2013 - Breakthrough near-first Top 50 season (finishing No.57); did not play a WTA main draw in first five months of year (fell in qualifying fivetimes - incl. Australian Open and Roland Garros); from June through end of season played six WTA main draws, reaching SF once atBirmingham (l. to Hantuchova), 4r once (US Open), 3r once (Wimbledon) and 2r twice; fell 1r once and in qualifying three times; having goneinto Birmingham ranked No.167, made Top 100 debut on July 22 (rose from No.107 to No.96) and peaked at No.56 on October 7. 2012 - Fell 1r four times (incl. Australian Open) and in qualifying six times (incl. other three majors). 2011 - QF at Birmingham; fell 1r seven times (incl. Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open) and in qualifying six times; won two singlestitles on ITF Circuit. 2010 - Played first four WTA main draws, reaching one SF at Birmingham (l. to Sharapova) but falling 1r three times (Charleston, Wimbledonand Québec City); fell in qualifying nine times (incl. Roland Garros and US Open); won four singles titles on ITF Circuit. 2009 - Fell in WTA qualifying five times (incl. US Open); won one singles title and one doubles title on ITF Circuit. 2008 - Fell in WTA qualifying once. 2007 - Played first WTA qualifying at US Open (as WC). 2006 - Played at ITF/Pittsburgh-USA. 2005 - Played at ITF/Pittsburgh-USA. 2004 - Played first event of career at ITF/Pittsburgh-USA.

ALISON RISKE









DOB Jan 21, 1992 (26)

Residence Asunción, Paraguay


Height 5' 4" (1.63 m)


Prize YTD $214,238

Career High Singles Rank 73 (Aug 07 2017)

Career High Doubles Rank 85 (Sep 19 2016)

Tie Break W - L 3 - 1 9 - 8 5 - 1 61 - 49



Surface (HARD) W - L 3 - 6 12 - 18 6 - 6 90 - 85

Surface (CLAY) W - L 1 - 4 11 - 15 5 - 5 212 - 97

Surface (GRASS) W - L 0 - 2 3 - 7 0 - 4 16 - 18

Top 5 W - L 0 - 0 0 - 2 0 - 0 0 - 2

Top 10 W - L 0 - 2 0 - 5 0 - 2 0 - 5

Top 20 W - L 0 - 3 1 - 7 0 - 3 1 - 7

Top 100 W - L 4 - 9 13 - 29 4 - 9 24 - 43

vs. Left Hander W - L 0 - 2 3 - 4 0 - 2 9 - 9

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1 Set W - L 3 - 1 19 - 6 8 - 1 272 - 35



Grand Slam W - L 0 - 3 4 - 8 0 - 3 20 - 23

Overall W - L 4 - 12 26 - 42 11 - 15 323 - 202

3 Set W - L 1 - 6 12 - 18 4 - 7 99 - 72










Break Points Saved 51.7% Return Points Won 40.2%







PAR

VERONICA CEPEDE ROYG









2 appearances at SAN JOSE:- R16 Main Draw in 2017 (l. Catherine Bellis 7-6(3) 6-2)- R1 Main Draw in 2016 (l. Nao Hibino 7-5 4-6 6-4)

2018 Season Summary

GS PM P5 P IS OtherF - - - - - 1 1SF - - - 0 - 1 1QF - - - 0 1 1 2Other 3 2 - 2 8 2 17




- F Main Draw in Trnava 2 (l. Viktoria Kuzmova 6-4 1-6 6-1)- QF Main Draw in Acapulco (l. Daria Gavrilova 6-4 4-6 6-2)- R16 Main Draw in Nürnberg (l. Katerina Siniakova 7-5 6-4)- R16 Main Draw in Auckland (l. Sachia Vickery 6-2 6-4)**R1 Main Draw in Wimbledon (l. Katie Boulter 6-4 5-7 6-4)**R1 Main Draw in Nottingham (l. Mihaela Buzarnescu 6-2 3-6 7-6(5))**R1 Main Draw in Roland Garros (l. Petra Kvitova 3-6 6-1 7-5)**R1 Main Draw in Bogota (l. Emiliana Arango 6-0 2-6 6-4)**R1 Main Draw in Charleston (l. Kiki Bertens 6-4 6-1)**R1 Main Draw in Miami (l. Oceane Dodin 6-4 6-7(3) 6-3)**R1 Main Draw in Indian Wells (l. Mona Barthel 6-2 6-1)**R1 Main Draw in Australian Open (l. Karolina Pliskova 6-3 6-4)**R1 Main Draw in Sydney (l. Ashleigh Barty 6-3 6-4)**R1 Qualifying in Eastbourne (l. Andrea Sestini Hlavackova 6-2 7-5)**R1 Qualifying in Birmingham (l. Bernarda Pera 6-2 6-4)

BEST WIN OF THE SEASON (win against highest ranked Opponent)R16 Main Draw in Acapulco (d. Irina-camelia Begu (ROU #36) 7-6(3) 6-1) 36








2014 - Reached 2r once; fell 1r twice and in qualifying five times (incl. Roland Garros, Wimbledon and US Open); won one singles title and fourdoubles titles on ITF Circuit. 2013 - Fell in WTA qualifying five times (incl. Roland Garros, Wimbledon and US Open); won two singles titles and four doubles titles on ITFCircuit. 2012 - Played first WTA main draw, falling 1r at Olympics (as WC, l. to Lepchenko); fell in qualifying five times (incl. Roland Garros, Wimbledonand US Open); won one singles title on ITF Circuit. 2011 - Won four singles titles and six doubles titles on ITF Circuit. 2010 - Won two singles titles and five doubles titles on ITF Circuit. 2009 - Won three singles titles and one doubles title on ITF Circuit. 2008 - Continued to play on ITF Circuit. 2007 - Continued to play on ITF Circuit. 2006 - Played first event of career at ITF/Luque-PAR.

DOUBLES Winner (1): 2016 - Rio de Janeiro (w/Irigoyen); 2015 - 125/Carlsbad (w/Ce). Finalist (2): 2017 - Bogotá (w/Linette), Acapulco (w/Duque-Mariño). ADDITIONAL Paraguayan Olympic Team, 2012.

GRAND SLAM

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ROLAND GARROS 4 - 4

WIMBLEDON 0 - 2

US OPEN 0 - 1

TOTAL 4 - 8

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

CAREER IN REVIEW

OTHER INFORMATION

Coached by Ramon Delgado ... Father is Eduardo (owns gas station); mother is Edith (retired dentist); brother is Andres (economist); sister isEstefania (architect) ... Introduced to tennis at age 5 by siblings ... Aggressive baseliner; favorite shot is forehand ... Favorite tournament isRoland Garros; favorite surface is clay ... Speaks Spanish and English ... Tennis idols growing up were Roger Federer and Kim Clijsters ...Enjoys going to the cinema and spending time with family and friends ... If hadn't been a tennis player, would have become a nutritionist ...Long-term goal is to reach Top 20.

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DOB May 11, 1992 (26)

Residence Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA


Height 5' 7" (1.70 m)


Prize YTD $274,006

Career High Singles Rank 24 (Aug 20 2012)

Career High Doubles Rank 35 (Jan 09 2017)

Tie Break W - L 2 - 2 34 - 43 3 - 4 58 - 63



Surface (HARD) W - L 2 - 5 97 - 104 4 - 9 190 - 163

Surface (CLAY) W - L 3 - 5 34 - 47 3 - 7 82 - 65

Surface (GRASS) W - L 0 - 1 16 - 22 1 - 2 24 - 25

Top 5 W - L 0 - 1 3 - 14 0 - 1 3 - 14

Top 10 W - L 0 - 1 6 - 32 0 - 1 6 - 32

Top 20 W - L 0 - 2 15 - 63 0 - 2 15 - 63

Top 100 W - L 4 - 9 120 - 146 4 - 9 145 - 168

vs. Left Hander W - L 0 - 1 12 - 12 0 - 1 18 - 15

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1 Set W - L 4 - 5 116 - 41 7 - 6 239 - 60



Grand Slam W - L 0 - 3 21 - 35 0 - 3 21 - 36

Overall W - L 5 - 11 153 - 175 8 - 18 302 - 255

3 Set W - L 1 - 6 61 - 70 1 - 6 97 - 105









Break Points Faced 189 Return Games Won 36%








USA

CHRISTINA MCHALE









3 appearances at SAN JOSE:- R16 Main Draw in 2011 (l. Dominika Cibulkova 6-4 2-6 6-3)- R16 Main Draw in 2010 (l. Samantha Stosur 6-1 7-5)- R1 Main Draw in 2013 (l. Urszula Radwanska 6-1 6-3)

2018 Season Summary

GS PM P5 P IS OtherF - - - - - - -SF - - - - - - -QF - - - - - - -Other 3 4 0 2 7 1 17




- R16 Main Draw in Nürnberg (l. Johanna Larsson 6-3 6-0)- R16 Main Draw in Istanbul (l. Irina-camelia Begu 6-4 6-4)- R3 Main Draw in Miami (l. Garbiñe Muguruza 6-2 6-1)- R2 Main Draw in Charleston (l. Daria Kasatkina 6-3 3-6 6-2)**R1 Main Draw in Wimbledon (l. Vera Lapko 5-7 7-5 7-5)**R1 Main Draw in Roland Garros (l. Alexandra Dulgheru 5-7 7-6(5) 6-3)**R1 Main Draw in Rabat (l. Magdalena Frech 7-5 7-5)**R1 Main Draw in Indian Wells (l. Katerina Siniakova 3-6 6-2 7-6(6))**R1 Main Draw in Acapulco (l. Irina-camelia Begu 3-6 6-2 6-4)**R1 Main Draw in Newport Beach (l. Jamie Loeb 6-2 6-4)**R1 Main Draw in Australian Open (l. Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-3 6-2)**R1 Main Draw in Auckland (l. Taylor Townsend 1-6 6-4 6-4)- R16 Qualifying in Dubai (l. Samantha Stosur 6-4 6-2)- R2 Qualifying in Eastbourne (l. Yulia Putintseva 6-4 6-4)- R2 Qualifying in Doha (l. Bernarda Pera 6-3 6-0)**R1 Qualifying in Rome (l. Katerina Siniakova 6-3 6-2)**R1 Qualifying in Madrid (l. Kirsten Flipkens 7-6(8) 6-2)**R1 Qualifying in Sydney (l. Kateryna Bondarenko 6-7(4) 7-6(6))

BEST WIN OF THE SEASON (win against highest ranked Opponent)R2 Main Draw in Miami (d. Barbora Strycova (CZE #24) 6-1 6-4) 24

CHRISTINA MCHALE







2016 - Third non-consecutive Top 50 season (finishing ranked No.45); won career-best 26 main draw matches and first singles title at TokyoInt’l; SF at Acapulco (l. to Cibulkova); reached 3r three times at Indian Wells (l. to Stosur), Madrid (l. to Begu) and Rome (l. to S.Williams); 2releven times (incl. Miami, Wimbledon and US Open); fell 1r seven times (incl. Australian Open, Roland Garros and Beijing). 2015 - Fifth straight Top 100 season (finishing No.64); SF at Tokyo [Japan Open] (l. to Linette); QF twice at Rome and Washington DC;reached 3r once and 2r eight times (incl. Australian Open and Wimbledon); fell 1r nine times (incl. US Open and Roland Garros - l. toDominguez Lino 36 76(4) 64; held 2mp at 5-4 second set) and in qualifying three times; struggled w/right shoulder injury during season(withdrew from Acapulco, Monterrey and Bad Gastein). 2014 - Near-Top 50 season (finishing No.54); runner-up at Acapulco (l. to Cibulkova in final); SF twice at Strasbourg (l. to Soler-Espinosa 57 76(7) 63; held mp at 6-5 in second set tie-break) and Seoul (l. to Lepchenko); reached 3r once and 2r eight times (incl. Australian Open and USOpen); fell 1r nine times (incl. other two majors) and in qualifying twice. 2013 - Another Top 100 season (finishing No.68); SF at Québec City (l. to Erakovic); reached 3r twice (incl. US Open) and 2r six times (incl.Wimbledon); fell 1r nine times (incl. other two majors) and in qualifying five times. 2012 - Best season to date (finishing No.33); QF twice at Doha and Carlsbad; reached 4r once (Indian Wells - l. to Kerber 63 36 76(4); held3mp at 6-5 third set), 3r four times (incl. Australian Open, Roland Garros and Wimbledon) and 2r seven times; fell 1r seven times (incl.Olympics and US Open); set career-high No.24 on August 20; struggled with illness during second half of season (retired in Cincinnati 1r andwithdrew from Stanford, New Haven, Québec City and Tokyo [Pan Pacific]). 2011 - First Top 50 season (finishing No.42); QF twice at Charleston and New Haven; reached 3r four times (incl. US Open) and 2r six times(incl. Wimbledon); fell 1r six times (incl. other two majors) and in qualifying four times; made Top 100 debut on March 21 (after Indian Wells;rose from No.112 to No.98) and Top 50 debut on September 12 (after US Open; rose from No.55 to No.45). 2010 - SF at Québec City (l. to Paszek); reached 3r twice and 2r once; fell 1r five times (incl. Roland Garros, US Open) and in qualifying twice;won one doubles title on ITF Circuit. 2009 - Played first two WTA main draws, falling 1r at Australian Open (as WC) and reaching 2r at US Open (as WC, l. to Sharapova); fell inqualifying twice. 2008 - Played first WTA qualifying at New Haven and US Open (both as WC); won one doubles title on ITF Circuit. 2007 - Played first events of career on ITF Circuit, winning one doubles title.

SINGLES Winner (1): 2016 - Tokyo (International). Finalist (1): 2014 - Acapulco. DOUBLES Winner (2): 2016 - Hobart (w/Han), Tianjin (w/Peng). ADDITIONAL American Fed Cup Team, 2010-12, 2014-15; American Olympic Team, 2012.

GRAND SLAM

W / L


ROLAND GARROS 2 - 9

WIMBLEDON 7 - 8

US OPEN 8 - 9

TOTAL 21 - 35

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

CAREER IN REVIEW

OTHER INFORMATION

Father, John, works in finance; mother is Margarita; older sister is Lauren (graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill, plays tennis) ... Lived in HongKong from age 3 to 8 (father transferred with job); began playing tennis at Hong Kong apartment complex's courts ... Also did competitiveswimming growing up ... Speaks English, Spanish and basic Mandarin ... Aggressive baseliner; favorite shot is forehand; considers movementa strength ... Favorite surface is hardcourts; favorite event is US Open ... Idols growing up were the Williams sisters ... Favorite actors are thecast of Friends.

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CHRISTINA MCHALE







2016 - Third non-consecutive Top 50 season (finishing ranked No.45); won career-best 26 main draw matches and first singles title at TokyoInt’l; SF at Acapulco (l. to Cibulkova); reached 3r three times at Indian Wells (l. to Stosur), Madrid (l. to Begu) and Rome (l. to S.Williams); 2releven times (incl. Miami, Wimbledon and US Open); fell 1r seven times (incl. Australian Open, Roland Garros and Beijing). 2015 - Fifth straight Top 100 season (finishing No.64); SF at Tokyo [Japan Open] (l. to Linette); QF twice at Rome and Washington DC;reached 3r once and 2r eight times (incl. Australian Open and Wimbledon); fell 1r nine times (incl. US Open and Roland Garros - l. toDominguez Lino 36 76(4) 64; held 2mp at 5-4 second set) and in qualifying three times; struggled w/right shoulder injury during season(withdrew from Acapulco, Monterrey and Bad Gastein). 2014 - Near-Top 50 season (finishing No.54); runner-up at Acapulco (l. to Cibulkova in final); SF twice at Strasbourg (l. to Soler-Espinosa 57 76(7) 63; held mp at 6-5 in second set tie-break) and Seoul (l. to Lepchenko); reached 3r once and 2r eight times (incl. Australian Open and USOpen); fell 1r nine times (incl. other two majors) and in qualifying twice. 2013 - Another Top 100 season (finishing No.68); SF at Québec City (l. to Erakovic); reached 3r twice (incl. US Open) and 2r six times (incl.Wimbledon); fell 1r nine times (incl. other two majors) and in qualifying five times. 2012 - Best season to date (finishing No.33); QF twice at Doha and Carlsbad; reached 4r once (Indian Wells - l. to Kerber 63 36 76(4); held3mp at 6-5 third set), 3r four times (incl. Australian Open, Roland Garros and Wimbledon) and 2r seven times; fell 1r seven times (incl.Olympics and US Open); set career-high No.24 on August 20; struggled with illness during second half of season (retired in Cincinnati 1r andwithdrew from Stanford, New Haven, Québec City and Tokyo [Pan Pacific]). 2011 - First Top 50 season (finishing No.42); QF twice at Charleston and New Haven; reached 3r four times (incl. US Open) and 2r six times(incl. Wimbledon); fell 1r six times (incl. other two majors) and in qualifying four times; made Top 100 debut on March 21 (after Indian Wells;rose from No.112 to No.98) and Top 50 debut on September 12 (after US Open; rose from No.55 to No.45). 2010 - SF at Québec City (l. to Paszek); reached 3r twice and 2r once; fell 1r five times (incl. Roland Garros, US Open) and in qualifying twice;won one doubles title on ITF Circuit. 2009 - Played first two WTA main draws, falling 1r at Australian Open (as WC) and reaching 2r at US Open (as WC, l. to Sharapova); fell inqualifying twice. 2008 - Played first WTA qualifying at New Haven and US Open (both as WC); won one doubles title on ITF Circuit. 2007 - Played first events of career on ITF Circuit, winning one doubles title.

CHRISTINA MCHALE









DOB May 7, 1993 (25)

Residence Brisbane, Australia


Height 5' 11" (1.80 m)


Prize YTD $281,703

Career High Singles Rank 47 (Feb 23 2015)

Career High Doubles Rank 47 (Jan 05 2015)

Tie Break W - L 2 - 3 26 - 19 3 - 3 67 - 52



Surface (HARD) W - L 4 - 4 35 - 46 11 - 7 138 - 99

Surface (CLAY) W - L 5 - 5 18 - 21 7 - 6 95 - 59

Surface (GRASS) W - L 3 - 3 5 - 11 5 - 3 19 - 17

Top 5 W - L 0 - 2 1 - 2 0 - 2 1 - 2

Top 10 W - L 0 - 3 1 - 4 0 - 3 1 - 4

Top 20 W - L 0 - 8 4 - 22 0 - 8 4 - 22

Top 100 W - L 7 - 11 40 - 66 7 - 11 48 - 86

vs. Left Hander W - L 1 - 1 4 - 8 2 - 1 14 - 12

65SinglesRanking

1 Set W - L 8 - 4 43 - 19 15 - 4 199 - 35



Grand Slam W - L 0 - 3 9 - 16 0 - 3 20 - 26

Overall W - L 12 - 12 61 - 81 23 - 16 256 - 180

3 Set W - L 6 - 4 27 - 30 10 - 4 83 - 73

















AUS

AJLA TOMLJANOVIC









6 appearances at SAN JOSE:- QF Main Draw in 2015 (l. Karolina Pliskova 6-2 6-4)- QF Qualifying in 2011 (l. Urszula Radwanska 6-3 5-7 6-1)- QF Qualifying in 2010 (l. Olga Savchuk 6-3 6-3)- R1 Main Draw in 2017 (l. Coco Vandeweghe 6-2, due to retirement from match)- R1 Main Draw in 2014 (l. Andrea Petkovic 6-1 6-4)- R1 Main Draw in 2013 (l. Stefanie Voegele 6-4 6-0)

2018 Season Summary

GS PM P5 P IS OtherF - - - - 1 - 1SF - - - - 1 2 3QF - - 0 - 3 2 5Other 3 2 1 2 11 5 24




- F Main Draw in Rabat (l. Elise Mertens 6-2 7-6(4))- SF Main Draw in Indian Wells 125k (l. Kateryna Bondarenko 7-5 6-3)- SF Main Draw in Newport Beach (l. Danielle Collins 6-4 6-3)- QF Main Draw in Mallorca (l. Anastasija Sevastova 3-6 6-3 6-1)- QF Main Draw in Monterrey (l. Garbiñe Muguruza 6-3 6-0)- R16 Main Draw in 's-hertogenbosch (l. Aryna Sabalenka 3-6 7-6(5) 6-0)- R16 Main Draw in Istanbul (l. Donna Vekic 6-1 6-2)- R16 Main Draw in Brisbane (l. Johanna Konta 4-6 6-1 6-4)- R2 Main Draw in Miami (l. Sloane Stephens 6-1 6-3)**R1 Main Draw in Wimbledon (l. Madison Keys 6-4 6-2)**R1 Main Draw in Bol (l. Tamara Zidansek 6-3 6-1)**R1 Main Draw in Roland Garros (l. Elina Svitolina 7-5 6-3)**R1 Main Draw in Rome (l. Daria Kasatkina 6-0 6-4)**R1 Main Draw in Bogota (l. Renata Zarazua 1-6 6-4 7-6(6))**R1 Main Draw in Australian Open (l. Lucie Safarova 7-5 6-3)- R2 Qualifying in Indian Wells (l. Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-4 6-2)

BEST WIN OF THE SEASON (win against highest ranked Opponent)QF Main Draw in Newport Beach (d. Nicole Gibbs (USA #0) 4-6 7-5 6-2) 0R16 Main Draw in Newport Beach (d. Carol Zhao (CAN #0) 6-1 6-3) 0R1 Main Draw in Newport Beach (d. Yanina Wickmayer (BEL #0) 6-3 6-4) 0

AJLA TOMLJANOVIC







2015 - Third straight Top 100 season (finishing No.66); runner-up at Pattaya City (l. to Hantuchova in final); SF at Tokyo [Japan Open] (l. toWickmayer); QF twice at Strasbourg and Stanford; reached 2r seven times (incl. Australian Open, Roland Garros and Wimbledon); fell 1r 10times (incl. US Open) and in qualifying four times; made Top 50 debut on February 16 (after Pattaya City; rose from No.68 to No.49). 2014 - Another Top 100 season (finishing No.63); QF twice at Acapulco and Tianjin; reached 4r once (Roland Garros), 3r twice and 2r six times(incl. Australian Open); fell 1r nine times (incl. other two majors) and in qualifying six times; struggled w/illness in the summer (retired in BadGastein 1r then withdrew from Istanbul). 2013 - First Top 100 season (finishing No.78); QF at Québec City; reached 4r once and 2r twice (incl. US Open); fell 1r three times (incl.Wimbledon) and in qualifying three times (incl. Roland Garros); started year at No.495 and finished at No.78 on November 4 year-end rankings- made Top 100 debut on September 16 (after Québec City; rose from No.101 to No.88); also won one singles title on ITF Circuit. 2012 - Fell 1r once and in qualifying twice (Roland Garros and Wimbledon); missed first four and a half months of season (January throughmid-May) and another four months later in season (late June to late October). 2011 - Reached 2r once; fell 1r four times and in qualifying six times (incl. all four majors); won two singles titles and two doubles titles on ITFCircuit. 2010 - Reached 2r once; fell 1r twice (incl. Miami - l. to Shvedova 67(1) 76(3) 75; held 4mp at 5-4 third set) and in qualifying seven times (incl.Roland Garros, Wimbledon, US Open); won one singles title on ITF Circuit. 2009 - Played first WTA main draw at Indian Wells, falling 1r (as WC); won one doubles title on ITF Circuit. 2008 - Continued to play on ITF Circuit. 2007 - Played first event of career at ITF/Zagreb 2-CRO.

SINGLES Finalist (2): 2018 - Rabat; 2015 - Pattaya City.

GRAND SLAM

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ROLAND GARROS 4 - 4

WIMBLEDON 1 - 4

US OPEN 2 - 4

TOTAL 9 - 16

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

CAREER IN REVIEW

OTHER INFORMATION

Currently without a coach ... Father is Ratko, mother is Emina; sister is Hana ... Started playing tennis at age 7 (introduced by sister) ... Favoriteshot is backhand; favorite surface is hard ... Speaks Croatian, English, German ... Favorite movie is The Hangover; favorite actor is RobertPattinson ... Favorite type of music is hip hop; favorite artist is Beyoncé ... Likes watching basketball and soccer ... Favorite city to visit isCharlotte, North Carolina (family) ... Pet peeve is sitting next to father on the plane ... Best tennis memory was first time on court with ChrisEvert ... Goal is to be No.1.

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AJLA TOMLJANOVIC








Tournament (SAN JOSE) W - L - - - -

DOB May 13, 1992 (26)

Residence Barcelona, Spain


Height 6' 1'' (1.87 m)

Prize Career $258,288

Prize YTD $155,188

Career High Singles Rank 146 (Apr 16 2018)

Career High Doubles Rank 99 (Jul 30 2018)

Tie Break W - L 0 - 0 0 - 0 3 - 3 34 - 42



Surface (HARD) W - L 0 - 1 0 - 1 10 - 2 77 - 48

Surface (CLAY) W - L 1 - 4 1 - 4 8 - 7 108 - 89

Surface (GRASS) W - L 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 - 0 7 - 6

Top 5 W - L 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1

Top 10 W - L 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1

Top 20 W - L 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1

Top 100 W - L 0 - 5 0 - 5 0 - 5 0 - 8

vs. Left Hander W - L 0 - 0 0 - 0 3 - 0 7 - 1

163SinglesRanking

1 Set W - L 1 - 0 1 - 0 13 - 1 176 - 23



Grand Slam W - L 1 - 1 1 - 1 4 - 1 4 - 2

Overall W - L 1 - 5 1 - 5 18 - 9 203 - 148

3 Set W - L 0 - 0 0 - 0 9 - 1 54 - 52

















ESP

GEORGINA GARCIA PEREZ








GRAND SLAM

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TOTAL 1 - 1


Player has never previously played at this tournament.

2018 Season Summary

GS PM P5 P IS OtherF - - - - - 1 1SF - - - - - 2 2QF - - - 0 0 2 2Other 2 1 - 1 2 5 11




- W in Andrezieux-boutheon (d. Arantxa Rus 6-2 6-0)- SF Main Draw in Glasgow (l. Paula Badosa Gibert 3-6 7-5 7-5)- R2 Main Draw in Roland Garros (l. Caroline Wozniacki 6-1 6-0)**R1 Main Draw in La Bisbal D'emporda (l. Estrella Cabeza Candela 7-6(7) 6-2)**R1 Main Draw in Madrid (l. Donna Vekic 6-2 6-4)**R1 Main Draw in Bogota (l. Tatjana Maria 6-3 6-2)**R1 Main Draw in Charleston (l. Irina-camelia Begu 6-3 6-4)**R1 Main Draw in Budapest (l. Aleksandra Krunic 6-2 6-4)- QF Qualifying in Bucharest (l. Cagla Buyukakcay 6-3 7-6(4))**R1 Qualifying in Rabat (l. Martina Trevisan 6-0 6-2)

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BEST WIN OF THE SEASON (win against highest ranked Opponent)W in Andrezieux-boutheon (d. Arantxa Rus (NED #0) 6-2 6-0 0QF Main Draw in Andrezieux-boutheon (d. Audrey Albie (FRA #0) 6-2 5-7 7-6(3)) 0R16 Main Draw in Andrezieux-boutheon (d. Tamara Zidansek (SLO #0) 6-2 6-3) 0R1 Main Draw in Andrezieux-boutheon (d. Jana Cepelova (SVK #0) 6-3 7-5) 0SF Main Draw in Andrezieux-boutheon (d. Magdalena Frech (POL #0) 6-4 1-6 6-3) 0








DOUBLES Winner (1): 2018 - Budapest (w/Stollar). ADDITIONAL Spanish Fed Cup Team, 2018.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

CAREER IN REVIEW

OTHER INFORMATION

Coached by Matej Buril ... Raised and still trains in Barcelona ... Began playing tennis at four ... Favorite player growing up was Stefanie Graf ...Mother is Antonia, father is Jorge, brother is Edward.










DOB May 28, 1991 (27)

Residence

Plays

Height


Prize YTD $24,150

Career High Singles Rank 193 (Sep 11 2017)

Career High Doubles Rank 221 (Nov 10 2014)

Tie Break W - L 0 - 0 1 - 1 2 - 4 20 - 16



Surface (HARD) W - L 0 - 0 0 - 2 10 - 10 95 - 80

Surface (CLAY) W - L 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 - 2 11 - 12

Surface (GRASS) W - L 0 - 1 0 - 1 3 - 2 7 - 4

Top 5 W - L 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 - 0

Top 10 W - L 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 - 0

Top 20 W - L 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 - 0

Top 100 W - L 0 - 1 1 - 3 0 - 1 2 - 8

vs. Left Hander W - L 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 - 2 2 - 5

234SinglesRanking

1 Set W - L 0 - 0 1 - 0 12 - 7 103 - 20



Grand Slam W - L 0 - 0 0 - 1 0 - 1 3 - 2

Overall W - L 0 - 1 1 - 4 13 - 14 117 - 99

3 Set W - L 0 - 0 0 - 2 2 - 7 23 - 33

















USA

DANIELLE LAO









1 appearance at SAN JOSE:- R1 Main Draw in 2017 (l. Natalia Vikhlyantseva 6-4 6-3)

2018 Season Summary

GS PM P5 P IS OtherF - - - - - - -SF - - - - - 1 1QF - - - - 0 3 3Other 0 - - 0 1 14 15




- SF Main Draw in Honolulu (l. Nao Hibino 3-6 7-5 7-5)- QF Main Draw in Quanzhou (l. Fangzhou Liu 5-7 6-3 6-2)- QF Main Draw in Zhengzhou (l. Xinyun Han 6-1 6-2)- R16 Main Draw in Berkeley (l. Ashley Kratzer 5-7 6-4 7-6(7))- R16 Main Draw in Surbiton (l. Kristie Ahn 4-6 6-2 6-2)- R16 Main Draw in Rancho Santa Fe (l. Elitsa Kostova 4-6 6-1 6-3)**R1 Main Draw in Nottingham (l. Heather Watson 6-1 6-3)**R1 Main Draw in Anning (l. Yafan Wang 5-7 7-6(6) 6-4)**R1 Main Draw in Surprise (l. Olga Ianchuk 4-6 7-6(2) 7-6(8))- R16 Qualifying in Newport Beach (l. Amanda Anisimova 6-1 6-0)**R1 Qualifying in Roland Garros (l. Anhelina Kalinina 6-2 6-1)**R1 Qualifying in Monterrey (l. Jamie Loeb 6-3 6-2)**R1 Qualifying in Indian Wells 125k (l. Sara Errani 6-4 6-2)**R1 Qualifying in Brisbane (l. Heather Watson 7-5 6-3)

BEST WIN OF THE SEASON (win against highest ranked Opponent)QF Main Draw in Honolulu (d. Asia Muhammad (USA #0) 6-4 6-3) 0R16 Main Draw in Honolulu (d. Catherine Harrison (USA #0) 6-3 2-6 6-1) 0R1 Main Draw in Honolulu (d. Alison Bai (AUS #0) 6-4 6-3) 0R1 Main Draw in Surbiton (d. Olivia Rogowska (AUS #0) 6-4 6-4) 0R1 Qualifying in Newport Beach (d. Karolina Muchova (CZE #0) 6-3 7-5) 0

DANIELLE LAO







GRAND SLAM

W / L

AUSTRALIAN OPEN -

ROLAND GARROS -

WIMBLEDON -

US OPEN 0 - 1

TOTAL 0 - 1

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

CAREER IN REVIEW

OTHER INFORMATION

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DANIELLE LAO









DOB Dec 13, 1993 (24)

Residence St. Petersburg, FL, USA

Plays Right-handed

Height 5' 10" (1.78 m)


Prize YTD $639,126

Career High Singles Rank 39 (Jun 11 2018)


Tie Break W - L 1 - 2 2 - 2 6 - 2 17 - 14



Surface (HARD) W - L 9 - 3 9 - 6 20 - 6 70 - 39

Surface (CLAY) W - L 2 - 4 2 - 4 6 - 4 35 - 17

Surface (GRASS) W - L 2 - 3 2 - 3 2 - 3 3 - 5

Top 5 W - L 0 - 2 0 - 3 0 - 2 0 - 3

Top 10 W - L 1 - 2 1 - 3 1 - 2 1 - 3

Top 20 W - L 3 - 5 3 - 6 3 - 5 3 - 6

Top 100 W - L 8 - 10 8 - 13 8 - 10 14 - 19

vs. Left Hander W - L 1 - 1 1 - 1 3 - 1 5 - 4

42SinglesRanking

1 Set W - L 10 - 1 10 - 2 20 - 1 87 - 10



Grand Slam W - L 0 - 2 0 - 4 2 - 3 2 - 7

Overall W - L 13 - 10 13 - 13 28 - 13 108 - 61

3 Set W - L 7 - 1 7 - 2 14 - 1 37 - 13

















USA

DANIELLE COLLINS










2018 Season Summary

GS PM P5 P IS OtherF - - - - - 1 1SF - 1 - - - 1 2QF - 1 0 - 1 2 4Other 2 9 2 3 4 5 25




- W in Newport Beach (d. Sofya Zhuk 2-6 6-4 6-3)- SF Main Draw in Miami (l. Jelena Ostapenko 7-6(1) 6-3)- QF Main Draw in Monterrey (l. Ana Bogdan 6-2 6-4)- QF Main Draw in Indian Wells 125k (l. Sara Errani 6-4 6-1)- R16 Main Draw in Eastbourne (l. Angelique Kerber 6-1 6-1)- R16 Main Draw in Strasbourg (l. Qiang Wang 4-6 7-5 6-2)- R16 Main Draw in Indian Wells (l. Carla Suárez Navarro 6-2 6-4)- R2 Main Draw in Rome (l. Daria Kasatkina 6-2 6-3)**R1 Main Draw in Wimbledon (l. Elise Mertens 6-3 6-2)**R1 Main Draw in Mallorca (l. Rebecca Peterson 6-3 6-3)**R1 Main Draw in Roland Garros (l. Caroline Wozniacki 7-6(2) 6-1)**R1 Main Draw in Madrid (l. Aliaksandra Sasnovich 7-5 6-2)**R1 Main Draw in Midland (l. Francoise Abanda 6-2 6-2)- R3 Qualifying in Australian Open (l. Denisa Allertova 6-0 6-1)

BEST WIN OF THE SEASON (win against highest ranked Opponent)W in Newport Beach (d. Sofya Zhuk (RUS #0) 2-6 6-4 6-3 0QF Main Draw in Newport Beach (d. Su Jeong Jang (KOR #0) 6-0 3-6 6-4) 0R16 Main Draw in Newport Beach (d. Jamie Loeb (USA #0) 4-6 6-0 6-4) 0R1 Main Draw in Newport Beach (d. Marie Bouzkova (CZE #0) 6-4 7-6(4)) 0SF Main Draw in Newport Beach (d. Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS #0) 6-4 6-3) 0

DANIELLE COLLINS







2017 - Fell 1r once and five times in WTA qualifying five times; won two singles titles on ITF Circuit. 2016 - Fell 1r once (US Open) and once in WTA qualifying; won one singles title on ITF Circuit. 2015 - Did not play. 2014 - Fell 1r on WTA main draw debut at US Open; played first WTA qualifying at New Haven; continued to play on ITF Circuit. 2013 - Did not play. 2012 - Continued to play on ITF Circuit. 2011 - Won one singles title on ITF Circuit. 2010 - Continued to play on ITF Circuit. 2009 - Played first events of career on ITF Circuit in US.

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GRAND SLAM

W / L

AUSTRALIAN OPEN -

ROLAND GARROS 0 - 1

WIMBLEDON 0 - 1

US OPEN 0 - 2

TOTAL 0 - 4

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

CAREER IN REVIEW

OTHER INFORMATION

Coached by Chip Brooks ... Parents are Walter and Cathy; older brother is Joel ... Started playing tennis at age 3; introduced to the sport by herdad (who played recreationally and used to coach her) ... Favorite surface is hard ... Enjoys going to the beach, fishing and running.

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DANIELLE COLLINS









DOB Jul 25, 1995 (23)

Residence Nicosia, Cyprus


Height 5' 8" (1.72 m)


Prize YTD $512,523


Career High Doubles Rank 293 (Nov 16 2015)

Tie Break W - L 4 - 1 11 - 6 4 - 1 46 - 32



Surface (HARD) W - L 6 - 7 17 - 24 8 - 9 119 - 84

Surface (CLAY) W - L 7 - 4 12 - 13 7 - 4 128 - 76

Surface (GRASS) W - L 0 - 3 5 - 6 0 - 3 10 - 7

Top 5 W - L 1 - 0 1 - 1 1 - 0 1 - 1

Top 10 W - L 1 - 0 2 - 4 1 - 0 2 - 4

Top 20 W - L 3 - 5 4 - 12 3 - 5 4 - 12

Top 100 W - L 10 - 12 25 - 35 10 - 12 36 - 45

vs. Left Hander W - L 1 - 1 2 - 3 1 - 1 6 - 7

49SinglesRanking

1 Set W - L 12 - 1 28 - 6 13 - 1 237 - 31



Grand Slam W - L 2 - 3 10 - 11 2 - 3 19 - 12

Overall W - L 13 - 14 34 - 43 15 - 16 267 - 177

3 Set W - L 2 - 6 10 - 18 3 - 7 64 - 58

















GRE

MARIA SAKKARI










2018 Season Summary

GS PM P5 P IS OtherF - - - - - - -SF - - - - 1 - 1QF - - - 0 1 - 1Other 5 8 4 3 5 - 25




- SF Main Draw in Istanbul (l. Polona Hercog 6-4 6-2)- R16 Main Draw in Rome (l. Angelique Kerber 6-1 6-1)- R16 Main Draw in Indian Wells (l. Naomi Osaka 6-1 5-7 6-1)- R16 Main Draw in Acapulco (l. Stefanie Voegele 6-3 6-4)- R3 Main Draw in Roland Garros (l. Daria Kasatkina 6-1 1-6 6-3)- R3 Main Draw in Miami (l. Monica Puig 6-3 7-5)**R1 Main Draw in Wimbledon (l. Sofia Kenin 6-4 1-6 6-1)**R1 Main Draw in Eastbourne (l. Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3 3-6 6-4)**R1 Main Draw in Birmingham (l. Julia Goerges 6-4 6-4)**R1 Main Draw in Madrid (l. Kiki Bertens 6-4 6-4)**R1 Main Draw in Doha (l. Sorana Cirstea 6-2 6-3)**R1 Main Draw in St. Petersburg (l. Julia Goerges 6-2 7-6(5))**R1 Main Draw in Australian Open (l. Katerina Siniakova 6-2 6-7(5) 6-4)**R1 Main Draw in Shenzhen (l. Danka Kovinic 4-6 6-2 6-3)- QF Qualifying in Dubai (l. Samantha Stosur 6-1 6-4)**R1 Qualifying in Sydney (l. Veronica Cepede Royg 6-4 3-6 6-3)

BEST WIN OF THE SEASON (win against highest ranked Opponent)R2 Main Draw in Rome (d. Karolina Pliskova (CZE #5) 3-6 6-3 7-5) 5

MARIA SAKKARI







2017 - Registered second-consecutive Top 100 year-end finish in 2017, finishing at No.52 – the highest year-end finish by a Greek player sinceDaniilidou in 2007 (No.43); also the only Greek player to record a Top 100 finish in the last seven years (since No.90 Daniilidou in 2011);posted career-best 17 main draw wins; notched career-best win and first Top 10 victory of career over No.6 Wozniacki en route to first WTAsemifinal of career at 2017 Wuhan– became just second qualifier to reach Premier-level semifinal in 2017 (Mertens at New Haven); enjoyed acareer-best year at the Grand Slams, progressing to the 3r for the first time on three different occasions: Australian Open (l. Lucic-Baroni),Wimbledon (l. Konta) and US Open (l. V.Williams) – became first Greek woman to reach the 3r at a Slam since Daniilidou at 2005 Wimbledon(l. Pennetta); broke into the Top 50 for the first time at No.49 on October 9, 2017 (rose to No.48 on October 16). 2016 - First Top 100 season (finishin No.89); QF at Istanbul (l. to Kovinic); reached 2r three times (incl. Australian Open and Wimbledon); fell 1reight times (incl. US Open) and in qualifying 10 times (incl. Roland Garros); made Top 100 debut on July 11 (rose from No.115 to No.97). 2015 - Fell 1r once (US Open) and in qualifying twice; won three singles titles and one doubles title on ITF Circuit. 2014 - Won four singles titles and four doubles titles on ITF Circuit. 2013 - Fell in WTA qualifying once (Doha). 2012 - Fell in WTA qualifying once (Palermo). 2011 - Continued to play on ITF Circuit. 2010 - Played first events of career on ITF Circuit.

ADDITIONAL Greek Fed Cup Team, 2012-16.

GRAND SLAM

W / L


ROLAND GARROS 2 - 2

WIMBLEDON 3 - 3

US OPEN 2 - 3

TOTAL 10 - 11

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

CAREER IN REVIEW

OTHER INFORMATION

Coached by Thomas Johansson ... Parents are Konstantinos and Angeliki; brother is Yannis (studies at Boston University) and sister isAmanda ... Introduced to tennis by parents at age 6 ... Mother played on WTA; achieved a Top 50 singles ranking ... Born and raised in Athens;moved to Barcelona at age 18 to train ... Favorite surfaces are hard and clay; favorite shot is serve ... Speaks Greek and English ... Best tennismemory is qualifying for first Grand Slam main draw at 2015 US Open ... Tennis idols are Serena Williams, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer ...During free time enjoys going back to Greece and seeing friends.

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MARIA SAKKARI









DOB Nov 14, 1998 (19)

Residence Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

Plays Right-handed

Height 5’ 7” (1.70 m)


Prize YTD $310,924

Career High Singles Rank 64 (Jul 16 2018)


Tie Break W - L 1 - 0 2 - 0 3 - 1 20 - 19



Surface (HARD) W - L 5 - 4 7 - 7 16 - 7 67 - 38

Surface (CLAY) W - L 0 - 3 0 - 4 2 - 6 53 - 34

Surface (GRASS) W - L 4 - 2 4 - 2 6 - 2 7 - 4

Top 5 W - L 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1

Top 10 W - L 1 - 2 1 - 2 1 - 2 1 - 2

Top 20 W - L 2 - 5 2 - 6 2 - 5 2 - 6

Top 100 W - L 6 - 8 7 - 11 6 - 8 11 - 20

vs. Left Hander W - L 1 - 1 1 - 2 1 - 1 7 - 7

68SinglesRanking

1 Set W - L 7 - 2 9 - 2 21 - 3 107 - 14



Grand Slam W - L 1 - 3 3 - 6 1 - 3 4 - 8

Overall W - L 9 - 9 12 - 14 24 - 15 128 - 77

3 Set W - L 4 - 3 6 - 3 8 - 4 43 - 20

















USA

SOFIA KENIN










2018 Season Summary

GS PM P5 P IS OtherF - - - - - 1 1SF - - - - 1 1 2QF - - - - 2 2 4Other 4 5 0 1 5 9 24




- W in Berkeley (d. Nicole Gibbs 6-0 6-4)- SF Main Draw in Mallorca (l. Tatjana Maria 6-2 2-6 6-4)- QF Main Draw in Dothan (l. Mariana Duque-mariño 6-4 6-1)- QF Main Draw in Auckland (l. Caroline Wozniacki 4-6 6-2 6-4)- R16 Main Draw in Indian Wells 125k (l. Yanina Wickmayer 6-3 6-3)- R16 Main Draw in Midland (l. Jamie Loeb 6-3 6-2)- R3 Main Draw in Miami (l. Petra Kvitova 3-6 6-2 6-4)- R2 Main Draw in Wimbledon (l. Vitalia Diatchenko 6-4 6-1)- R2 Main Draw in Indian Wells (l. Shuai Zhang 6-2 6-3)**R1 Main Draw in Roland Garros (l. Naomi Osaka 6-2 7-5)**R1 Main Draw in Strasbourg (l. Samantha Stosur 6-3 6-2)**R1 Main Draw in Charleston (l. Ashleigh Barty 6-3 6-2)**R1 Main Draw in Newport Beach (l. Su Jeong Jang 7-6(6) 6-3)**R1 Main Draw in Australian Open (l. Julia Goerges 6-4 6-4)**R1 Qualifying in Rome (l. Kaia Kanepi 2-6 6-2 6-2)**R1 Qualifying in Madrid (l. Magda Linette 6-3 6-4)

BEST WIN OF THE SEASON (win against highest ranked Opponent)QF Main Draw in Mallorca (d. Caroline Garcia (FRA #6) 6-3 6-3) 6

SOFIA KENIN







2017 - Reached 3r at US Open (l. Sharapova) and 2r once; fell 1r once and in qualifying six times (incl. Roland Garros and Wimbledon); wonone singles and two doubles titles on ITF Circuit. 2016 - Fell 1r at US Open and in qualifying three times; won two singles titles on ITF Circuit. 2015 - Fell 1r in first WTA main draw at US Open as WC. 2014 - Continued to play on ITF Circuit in US. 2013 - Played first events of career on ITF Circuit in US.

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GRAND SLAM

W / L


ROLAND GARROS 0 - 1

WIMBLEDON 1 - 1

US OPEN 2 - 3

TOTAL 3 - 6

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

CAREER IN REVIEW

OTHER INFORMATION

Coached by father Alexander Kenin... Born in Moscow, and moved to USA when she was a young child... Resides in Pembroke Pines, Florida,where she was home-schooled

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SOFIA KENIN









DOB Feb 8, 1999 (19)

Residence Newport Beach, CA

Plays Left-handed

Height 5'11


Prize YTD $21,629


Career High Doubles Rank 317 (Jun 11 2018)

Tie Break W - L 0 - 0 0 - 0 2 - 3 17 - 14


WTA Doubles Titles - YTD / Career 0 /

Surface (HARD) W - L 0 - 0 0 - 1 5 - 7 67 - 51

Surface (CLAY) W - L 0 - 0 0 - 0 15 - 7 30 - 22

Surface (GRASS) W - L 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 - 0

Top 5 W - L 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 - 0

Top 10 W - L 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 - 0

Top 20 W - L 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 - 0

Top 100 W - L 0 - 0 0 - 1 0 - 0 2 - 4

vs. Left Hander W - L 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 - 1 0 - 1

251SinglesRanking

1 Set W - L 0 - 0 0 - 0 15 - 5 82 - 12



Grand Slam W - L 0 - 0 0 - 1 0 - 0 0 - 1

Overall W - L 0 - 0 0 - 1 20 - 14 97 - 73

3 Set W - L 0 - 0 0 - 0 8 - 6 17 - 19




Aces 1st Serve Return Points Won -

Double Faults 2nd Serve Return Points Won -

1st Serve - Break Point Opportunities

1st Serve Points Won - Break Points Converted %

2nd Serve Points Won - Return Games Played

Break Points Faced Return Games Won %

Break Points Saved % Return Points Won -

Service Games Played Total Points Won -

Service Games Won %

Service Points Won -

MATCH FACTS**2018 Events: Played 2018 Matches: Played (0 - 0 win-loss)



USA

ASHLEY KRATZER










2018 Season Summary

GS PM P5 P IS OtherF - - - - - 1 1SF - - - - - 4 4QF - - - - - 5 5Other - 0 - - 0 20 20




- F Main Draw in Naples (l. Nicole Gibbs 6-4 6-4)- SF Main Draw in Berkeley (l. Nicole Gibbs 6-4 6-2)- SF Main Draw in Bethany Beach (l. Katerina Stewart 3-6 6-3 6-0)- SF Main Draw in Osprey (l. Sophie Chang 6-3 6-4)- QF Main Draw in Pelham (l. Allie Kiick 6-4 6-7(2) 7-5)- R16 Main Draw in Charleston (l. Madison Brengle 5-7 6-4 6-3)- R16 Main Draw in Charlottesville (l. Sesil Karatantcheva 6-2 7-6(5))- R16 Main Draw in Dothan (l. Taylor Townsend 6-4 7-6(0))- R16 Main Draw in Surprise (l. Yanina Wickmayer 7-6(5) 6-3)**R1 Main Draw in Honolulu (l. Jessica Pegula 3-6 6-0 6-2)**R1 Main Draw in Indian Wells 125k (l. Su-wei Hsieh 6-4 7-5)- R2 Qualifying in Indian Wells (l. Sachia Vickery 7-5 6-1)**R1 Qualifying in Monterrey (l. Yana Sizikova 3-6 6-1 6-3)**R1 Qualifying in Newport Beach (l. Caroline Dolehide 2-6 6-3 6-4)

BEST WIN OF THE SEASON (win against highest ranked Opponent)QF Main Draw in Bethany Beach (d. Usue Maitane Arconada (USA #0) 6-1 2-6 6-2) 0R16 Main Draw in Bethany Beach (d. Elysia Bolton (USA #0) 4-6 6-2 6-3) 0R1 Main Draw in Bethany Beach (d. Ann Li (USA #0) 6-3 6-3) 0

ASHLEY KRATZER







GRAND SLAM

W / L

AUSTRALIAN OPEN -

ROLAND GARROS -

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US OPEN 0 - 1

TOTAL 0 - 1

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

CAREER IN REVIEW

OTHER INFORMATION

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ASHLEY KRATZER









DOB Aug 8, 1986 (31)

Residence Kiev, Ukraine


Height 5' 9" (1.75 m)


Prize YTD $358,621

Career High Singles Rank 29 (Oct 12 2009)

Career High Doubles Rank 9 (Oct 20 2008)

Tie Break W - L 2 - 1 36 - 49 3 - 5 82 - 88



Surface (HARD) W - L 2 - 4 79 - 105 12 - 7 279 - 189

Surface (CLAY) W - L 1 - 4 34 - 52 1 - 5 118 - 102

Surface (GRASS) W - L 1 - 2 17 - 19 4 - 3 31 - 25

Top 5 W - L 0 - 0 3 - 12 0 - 0 3 - 12

Top 10 W - L 0 - 1 8 - 25 0 - 1 8 - 25

Top 20 W - L 1 - 1 20 - 61 1 - 1 20 - 61

Top 100 W - L 2 - 10 99 - 160 2 - 10 146 - 202

vs. Left Hander W - L 0 - 2 11 - 13 0 - 2 30 - 21

79SinglesRanking

1 Set W - L 2 - 2 106 - 38 13 - 4 368 - 72



Grand Slam W - L 2 - 3 28 - 36 2 - 3 42 - 45

Overall W - L 4 - 10 133 - 179 17 - 15 439 - 325

3 Set W - L 3 - 4 50 - 59 6 - 6 122 - 126

















UKR

KATERYNA BONDARENKO









5 appearances at SAN JOSE:- R16 Main Draw in 2017 (l. Petra Kvitova 6-2 6-2)- R16 Main Draw in 2008 (l. Dominika Cibulkova 6-2 6-3)- R1 Main Draw in 2016 (l. Urszula Radwanska 6-4 7-5)- R1 Main Draw in 2015 (l. Elina Svitolina 4-6 6-4 7-5)- R1 Qualifying in 2006 (l. Lioudmila Skavronskaia 6-2 7-5)

2018 Season Summary

GS PM P5 P IS OtherF - - - - - 1 1SF - - - 0 - 1 1QF - - 0 0 - 1 1Other 5 1 1 4 3 2 16




- F Main Draw in Indian Wells 125k (l. Sara Errani 6-4 6-2)- R16 Main Draw in Istanbul (l. Polona Hercog 6-2 1-1)- R3 Main Draw in Australian Open (l. Magdalena Rybarikova 7-5 3-6 6-1)- R2 Main Draw in Eastbourne (l. Petra Kvitova 7-5 6-3)**R1 Main Draw in Wimbledon (l. Lucie Safarova 6-4 6-4)**R1 Main Draw in Roland Garros (l. Donna Vekic 6-2 6-4)**R1 Main Draw in Nürnberg (l. Heather Watson 6-3 3-6 7-6(3))**R1 Main Draw in Charleston (l. Alizé Cornet 6-1 6-2)**R1 Main Draw in Miami (l. Alison Van Uytvanck 6-7(3) 7-5 6-1)**R1 Main Draw in Doha (l. Carla Suárez Navarro 3-6 6-3 6-3)**R1 Main Draw in Brisbane (l. Catherine Bellis 6-2 7-5)- R16 Qualifying in Birmingham (l. Bernarda Pera 6-4 7-6(5))- R16 Qualifying in Sydney (l. Veronica Cepede Royg 2-6 6-3 7-6(4))**R1 Qualifying in Madrid (l. Olga Danilovic 3-6 7-6(2) 6-2)**R1 Qualifying in Indian Wells (l. Vera Lapko 6-0 6-3)

BEST WIN OF THE SEASON (win against highest ranked Opponent)R2 Main Draw in Australian Open (d. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS #18) 6-2 6-3) 18

KATERYNA BONDARENKO







2017 - Seventh Top 100 season (finishing No.93); won one WTA title at Tashkent (d. Babos in final); reached 3r once and 2r four times; fell 1reight times (incl. Australian Open, Roland Garros and Wimbledon) and in qualifying nine times (incl. US Open). 2016 - Sixth Top 100 season (finishing No.70); reached 4r once, 3r three times (incl. Australian Open and US Open) and 2r five times (incl.Roland Garros); fell 1r eight times (incl. Wimbledon) and in qualifying seven times. 2015 - Fifth Top 100 season (finishing No.88); QF twice at Istanbul and Tokyo [Japan Open]; reached 2r four times (incl. US Open); fell 1r eighttimes and in qualifying eight times (incl. other three majors). 2014 - Returned to action in April; fell 1r twice and in qualifying four times (incl. Roland Garros); won one singles title and one doubles title onITF Circuit. 2013 - Did not play. 2012 - Reached 3r once and 2r five times (incl. Wimbledon); fell 1r six times (incl. other three majors and Olympics) and in qualifying five times;did not play after US Open. 2011 - Fourth Top 100 finish in last five years; SF at Bad Gastein (l. to Martínez Sánchez); QF four times at Auckland, Budapest, Baku andDallas; reached 3r once (Wimbledon) and 2r once (US Open); fell 1r three times (incl. other two majors) and in qualifying 10 times; retired inLinz 1r w/neck injury. 2010 - Reached 2r in first three events of year (incl. Australian Open); retired in Dubai 2r w/knee injury then missed three months (withdrewfrom Indian Wells, Miami, Ponte Vedra Beach, Charleston, Madrid); returned in May and made 2r five times (incl. Roland Garros, US Open - l.to Cibulkova 62 57 76(7); held 5mp in third set - 3mp at 5-3, 2mp in tie-break) but fell 1r seven times (incl. Wimbledon); won one singles title onITF Circuit. 2009 - Second Top 50 season; QF twice at Prague and US Open (first Grand Slam QF; l. to Wickmayer); reached 3r five times (incl. AustralianOpen and Roland Garros) and 2r seven times (incl. Wimbledon); fell 1r six times; also won one WTA doubles title. 2008 - Another Top 100 season; won one WTA title at Birmingham (d. Wickmayer in final); QF at Paris [Indoors]; reached 2r eight times (incl.Wimbledon); fell 1r 10 times (incl. other three majors and Olympics) and in qualifying twice; won first two WTA doubles titles (incl. AustralianOpen w/A.Bondarenko; second pair of sisters to win a Grand Slam doubles title - also Williams sisters); made doubles Top 10 debut onSeptember 29 (rose from No.11 to No.10). 2007 - First Top 50 season; QF twice at Doha and Stuttgart; reached 3r twice and 2r five times (incl. Roland Garros and US Open); fell 1r ninetimes (incl. Wimbledon) and in qualifying four times (incl. Australian Open); made Top 50 debut on May 21 (rose from No.57 to No.46). 2006 - QF at Tashkent; reached 2r three times (incl. Wimbledon); fell 1r six times and in qualifying 13 times (incl. Australian Open and USOpen); made Top 100 debut on August 7 (after San Diego; rose from No.107 to No.94); won one singles title and one doubles title on ITFCircuit. 2005 - QF twice at Memphis and Tashkent; reached 3r once and 2r once; fell 1r three times (incl. Wimbledon) and in qualifying nine times (incl.US Open). 2004 - Fell 1r twice and in qualifying three times. 2003 - Played first two WTA main draws, falling 1r at Bogotá but reaching 2r at Pattaya City. 2002 - Played first WTA qualifying at Shanghai; won one singles title and one doubles title on ITF Circuit. 2001 - Continued to play on ITF Circuit. 2000 - Played first event of career on ITF Circuit in Ukraine.

SINGLES Winner (2): 2017 - Tashkent; 2008 - Birmingham. Finalist: 2018 - 125/Indian Wells. DOUBLES Winner (3): 2009 - Prague (w/A.Bondarenko); 2008 - Australian Open, Paris [Indoors] (both w/A.Bondarenko). Finalist (4): 2016 - New Haven (w/Chuang); 2011 - Hobart (w/Dekmeijere); 2009 - Hobart, Budapest (both w/A.Bondarenko). ADDITIONAL Ukrainian Fed Cup Team, 2005-12, 2016; Ukrainian Olympic Team, 2008, 2012.

GRAND SLAM

W / L


ROLAND GARROS 5 - 9

WIMBLEDON 6 - 11

US OPEN 10 - 8

TOTAL 28 - 36

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

CAREER IN REVIEW

OTHER INFORMATION

Coached by Denis Volodko ... Parents are Vladimir and Natalia ... Was introduced to tennis at age 4 by parents; has two sisters, Valeria andAlona (both play tennis, Alona also plays on WTA) ... Married Denis Volodko in September 2011; gave birth to daughter, Karin, in 2013 ... Hasone cat (Pers) and one dog (Princess) ... Speaks Ukrainian, Russian and English ... Enjoys Russian pop music, playing chess, reading books ...Enjoys visiting friends in Cherkasy, Ukraine.

KATERYNA BONDARENKO







2017 - Seventh Top 100 season (finishing No.93); won one WTA title at Tashkent (d. Babos in final); reached 3r once and 2r four times; fell 1reight times (incl. Australian Open, Roland Garros and Wimbledon) and in qualifying nine times (incl. US Open). 2016 - Sixth Top 100 season (finishing No.70); reached 4r once, 3r three times (incl. Australian Open and US Open) and 2r five times (incl.Roland Garros); fell 1r eight times (incl. Wimbledon) and in qualifying seven times. 2015 - Fifth Top 100 season (finishing No.88); QF twice at Istanbul and Tokyo [Japan Open]; reached 2r four times (incl. US Open); fell 1r eighttimes and in qualifying eight times (incl. other three majors). 2014 - Returned to action in April; fell 1r twice and in qualifying four times (incl. Roland Garros); won one singles title and one doubles title onITF Circuit. 2013 - Did not play. 2012 - Reached 3r once and 2r five times (incl. Wimbledon); fell 1r six times (incl. other three majors and Olympics) and in qualifying five times;did not play after US Open. 2011 - Fourth Top 100 finish in last five years; SF at Bad Gastein (l. to Martínez Sánchez); QF four times at Auckland, Budapest, Baku andDallas; reached 3r once (Wimbledon) and 2r once (US Open); fell 1r three times (incl. other two majors) and in qualifying 10 times; retired inLinz 1r w/neck injury. 2010 - Reached 2r in first three events of year (incl. Australian Open); retired in Dubai 2r w/knee injury then missed three months (withdrewfrom Indian Wells, Miami, Ponte Vedra Beach, Charleston, Madrid); returned in May and made 2r five times (incl. Roland Garros, US Open - l.to Cibulkova 62 57 76(7); held 5mp in third set - 3mp at 5-3, 2mp in tie-break) but fell 1r seven times (incl. Wimbledon); won one singles title onITF Circuit. 2009 - Second Top 50 season; QF twice at Prague and US Open (first Grand Slam QF; l. to Wickmayer); reached 3r five times (incl. AustralianOpen and Roland Garros) and 2r seven times (incl. Wimbledon); fell 1r six times; also won one WTA doubles title. 2008 - Another Top 100 season; won one WTA title at Birmingham (d. Wickmayer in final); QF at Paris [Indoors]; reached 2r eight times (incl.Wimbledon); fell 1r 10 times (incl. other three majors and Olympics) and in qualifying twice; won first two WTA doubles titles (incl. AustralianOpen w/A.Bondarenko; second pair of sisters to win a Grand Slam doubles title - also Williams sisters); made doubles Top 10 debut onSeptember 29 (rose from No.11 to No.10). 2007 - First Top 50 season; QF twice at Doha and Stuttgart; reached 3r twice and 2r five times (incl. Roland Garros and US Open); fell 1r ninetimes (incl. Wimbledon) and in qualifying four times (incl. Australian Open); made Top 50 debut on May 21 (rose from No.57 to No.46). 2006 - QF at Tashkent; reached 2r three times (incl. Wimbledon); fell 1r six times and in qualifying 13 times (incl. Australian Open and USOpen); made Top 100 debut on August 7 (after San Diego; rose from No.107 to No.94); won one singles title and one doubles title on ITFCircuit. 2005 - QF twice at Memphis and Tashkent; reached 3r once and 2r once; fell 1r three times (incl. Wimbledon) and in qualifying nine times (incl.US Open). 2004 - Fell 1r twice and in qualifying three times. 2003 - Played first two WTA main draws, falling 1r at Bogotá but reaching 2r at Pattaya City. 2002 - Played first WTA qualifying at Shanghai; won one singles title and one doubles title on ITF Circuit. 2001 - Continued to play on ITF Circuit. 2000 - Played first event of career on ITF Circuit in Ukraine.

KATERYNA BONDARENKO









DOB Jul 31, 1989 (28)

Residence Monte Carlo, Monaco


Height 6' 0" (1.83 m)


Prize YTD $604,052

Career High Singles Rank 1 (Jan 30 2012)


Tie Break W - L 2 - 1 62 - 40 2 - 1 70 - 48



Surface (HARD) W - L 6 - 2 288 - 89 6 - 2 317 - 102

Surface (CLAY) W - L 1 - 3 86 - 42 1 - 3 112 - 49

Surface (GRASS) W - L 2 - 2 44 - 19 2 - 2 44 - 19

Top 5 W - L 0 - 0 28 - 37 0 - 0 28 - 37

Top 10 W - L 1 - 2 64 - 63 1 - 2 64 - 63

Top 20 W - L 3 - 4 114 - 88 3 - 4 114 - 88

Top 100 W - L 8 - 7 360 - 143 8 - 7 367 - 146

vs. Left Hander W - L 0 - 1 44 - 13 0 - 1 49 - 16

108SinglesRanking

1 Set W - L 7 - 1 376 - 33 7 - 1 422 - 38



Grand Slam W - L 1 - 2 122 - 41 1 - 2 128 - 41

Overall W - L 9 - 7 421 - 155 9 - 7 476 - 175

3 Set W - L 2 - 2 79 - 53 2 - 2 94 - 62

















BLR

VICTORIA AZARENKA








GRAND SLAM

W / L


ROLAND GARROS 21 - 11

WIMBLEDON 30 - 11

US OPEN 32 - 10

TOTAL 122 - 41


4 appearances at SAN JOSE:- W in 2010 (d. Maria Sharapova 6-4 6-1)- R16 Main Draw in 2014 (l. Venus Williams 6-4 7-6(1))- R16 Main Draw in 2011 (l. Marina Erakovic 4-6 7-5 6-2)- R1 Main Draw in 2007 (l. Maria Kirilenko 3-6 7-5 6-4)

2018 Season Summary

GS PM P5 P IS OtherF - - - - - - -SF - 1 - - - - 1QF - 1 - - - - 1Other 3 8 1 - 2 - 14


OTHER INFORMATION

Currently without a coach ... Mother's name is Alla; father's name is Fedor; has one brother, Max ... Introduced to tennis at age 7 by mother ...Favorite shot is backhand; favorite surface is hardcourts ... Speaks Belarusian, English and Russian ... Enjoys music (rock, club hip-hop, R&B),seeing friends, surfing, paddle boarding, cooking, comedy and karaoke ... Favorite cities are hometown of Minsk and New York City; spendsmost of her time living and training in Monaco...... Admires Roger Federer for his professionalism on and off of the court.



- SF Main Draw in Miami (l. Sloane Stephens 3-6 6-2 6-1)- R16 Main Draw in Mallorca (l. Lucie Safarova 6-3 6-4)- R2 Main Draw in Wimbledon (l. Karolina Pliskova 6-3 6-3)- R2 Main Draw in Madrid (l. Karolina Pliskova 6-2 1-6 7-5)- R2 Main Draw in Indian Wells (l. Sloane Stephens 6-1 7-5)**R1 Main Draw in Roland Garros (l. Katerina Siniakova 7-5 7-5)**R1 Main Draw in Rome (l. Naomi Osaka 6-0 6-3)

'18 '17 '16 '15 '14 '13 '12 '11 '10 '09 '08 '07 '06

- - QF 4R QF W W 4R QF 4R 3R 3R 1R

1R - 1R 3R - SF 4R QF 1R QF 4R 1R 1R

2R 4R - QF 2R 1R SF SF 3R QF 3R 3R 1R

- - - QF QF F F 3R 2R 3R 3R 4R 3R

BEST WIN OF THE SEASON (win against highest ranked Opponent)QF Main Draw in Miami (d. Karolina Pliskova (CZE #6) 7-5 6-3) 6

VICTORIA AZARENKA







2015 - Near-Top 20 season (finishing No.22); runner-up at Doha (l. to Safarova in final); QF three times at Rome (l. to Sharapova), Wimbledon(l. to S.Williams) and US Open (l. to Halep); reached 4r once, 3r six times (incl. Roland Garros and Madrid - l. to S.Williams 76(5) 36 76(1); held3mp at 6-5 third set) and 2r twice; fell 1r once (Brisbane - l. to Ka.Pliskova 46 76(7) 64; help 2mp in second set - 1mp at 5-4, 1mp at 6-5 in tie-break). 2014 - Injury-marred season (finishing No.32); best results in nine events played were runner-up finish at Brisbane (l. to S.Williams in final) andthree QFs (incl. Australian Open - l. to A.Radwanska, US Open - l. to Makarova); reached 2r four times (incl. Wimbledon) and fell 1r once; hadstarted year at No.2; biggest injury was left foot injury (played just one match in four and a half months between February and mid-June, atIndian Wells, withdrawing from Doha, Miami, Monterrey, Madrid, Rome and Roland Garros) but also struggled w/right knee injury (withdrewfrom Cincinnati) and right foot injury (withdrew from Wuhan, Beijing and Luxembourg). 2013 - Third straight Top 3 season (finishing No.2); won three WTA titles at Australian Open (second Grand Slam title; d. Li in final), Doha (d.S.Williams in final) and Cincinnati (d. S.Williams in final); runner-up three times at Rome (l. to S.Williams in final), Carlsbad (l. to Stosur in final)and US Open (l. to S.Williams in final); SF twice at Brisbane (withdrew prior to match w/toe injury) and Roland Garros (l. to Sharapova); QFonce; reached 2r three times (incl. Wimbledon); fell 1r once (Beijing); fell in RR at WTA Finals (went 1-2); struggled with various injuriesthroughout season, first right toe injury (withdrew prior to SF match at Brisbane), then right foot injury (withdrew from Dubai), right ankle injury(withdrew prior to QF match at Indian Wells then from Miami and Monterrey), then right knee injury (withdrew prior to 2r match at Wimbledon)and low back injury (withdrew from Toronto). 2012 - First No.1 season; won six WTA titles at Sydney (d. Li in final), Australian Open (first Grand Slam title; d. Sharapova in final), Doha (d.Stosur in final), Indian Wells (d. Sharapova in final), Beijing (d. Sharapova in final) and Linz (d. Goerges in final); runner-up three times atStuttgart (l. to Sharapova), Madrid (l. to S.Williams) and US Open (l. to S.Williams); SF three times at Wimbledon (l. to S.Williams), Olympics (l.to S.Williams; d. Kirilenko in bronze medal match) and WTA Finals (l. to Sharapova in SF); QF twice; reached 4r once (Roland Garros), 3r onceand 2r once; rose to No.1 on January 30 (after Australian Open; rose from No.3 to No.1 - first player ever to skip No.2 to reach No.1 for firsttime); 26-0 start to the season was best since Hingis in 1997 (37-0). 2011 - First Top 3 season (finishing No.3); won three WTA titles at Miami (d. Sharapova in final), Marbella (d. Begu in final) and Luxembourg (d.Niculescu in final); runner-up twice at Madrid (l. to Kvitova in final) and WTA Finals (l. to Kvitova in final); SF three times at Wimbledon (l. toKvitova), Toronto (l. to S.Williams) and Tokyo [Pan Pacific] (l. to A.Radwanska); QF five times (incl. Roland Garros - l. to Li); reached 4r once(Australian Open), 3r three times (incl. US Open) and 2r twice; fell 1r once; made Top 5 debut on April 11 (after Marbella, rose from No.6 to No.5), rose to No.4 on May 9 (after Madrid, rose from No.5 to No.4 - new Belarusian record) and to No.3 on September 12 (after US Open, rosefrom No.5 to No.3); won two WTA doubles titles. 2010 - Another Top 10 season (finishing No.10); won two WTA titles at Stanford (d. Sharapova in final) and Moscow (d. Kirilenko in final);runner-up twice at Dubai (l. to V.Williams in final) and Eastbourne (l. to Makarova in final); SF three times at Sydney (l. to Dementieva),Montréal (ret. vs. Zvonareva w/left foot blister) and Tokyo [Pan Pacific] (l. to Wozniacki); QF twice (incl. Australian Open - l. to S.Williams 46 76(4) 62; led 64 40); reached 4r once, 3r twice (incl. Wimbledon) and 2r five times (incl. US Open - ret. vs. Dulko w/headache); fell 1r three times(incl. Roland Garros); fell in RR stage at WTA Finals (went 2-1 in RR); also won one WTA doubles title. 2009 - First Top 10 season (finishing No.7); won first three WTA titles at Brisbane (d. Bartoli in final), Memphis (d. Wozniacki in final) and Miami(d. S.Williams in final); SF twice at Indian Wells (l. to Zvonareva) and Rome (l. to Kuznetsova); QF three times (incl. Roland Garros - l. toSafina, Wimbledon - l. to S.Williams); reached 4r once (Australian Open), 3r three times (incl. US Open) and 2r four times; fell in RR stage atWTA Finals (went 1-2 in RR; l. to Wozniacki 16 64 75 in second match after holding mp at 5-4 third set); made Top 10 debut on March 23 (afterIndian Wells; rose from No.11 to No.10); also won two WTA doubles titles. 2 008 - First Top 20 season; runner-up twice at Gold Coast (l. to Li in final) and Prague (l. to Zvonareva in final); SF three times at Berlin (l. toSafina), Montréal (l. to Safina) and Stuttgart (l. to Petrova); QF twice at Los Angeles and Zürich; reached 4r once (Roland Garros), 3r seventimes (incl. other three majors, Olympics and Miami - l. to Kuznetsova 16 75 60; held mp at 61 53) and 2r once; fell 1r four times; made Top 20debut on May 12 (after Berlin; rose from No.26 to No.19); also made doubles Top 10 debut on May 12 (after Berlin; rose from No.12 to No.10);injured left knee in Paris [Indoors] 1r then had surgery (withdrew from Antwerp, Doha and Indian Wells). 2007 - First Top 30 season; runner-up twice at Estoril (l. to Arn 26 61 76(3) in final; held 2mp at 5-4 third set) and Tashkent (l. to Parmentier infinal); SF at Prague (ret. vs. Morigami w/hip strain); QF three times at Los Angeles, Luxembourg and Moscow; reached 4r once (US Open), 3rfour times (incl. Australian Open, Wimbledon) and 2r once; fell 1r four times (incl. Roland Garros) and in qualifying once; made Top 50 debut onMay 14 (No.55 to No.49); won first Grand Slam mixed doubles title at US Open (w/Mirnyi); won one doubles title on ITF Circuit. 2006 - First Top 100 season; SF at Tashkent (l. to Sun); reached 3r twice (incl. US Open) and 2r twice; fell 1r seven times (incl. other threemajors) and in qualifying twice; made Top 100 debut on July 10 (after Wimbledon; rose from No.101 to No.99); won one WTA doubles title. 2005 - Played first two WTA main draws, falling 1r at Kolkata but reaching SF at Guangzhou (l. to Yan); fell in qualifying twice; won one singlestitle and one doubles title on ITF Circuit. 2004 - Continued to play on ITF Circuit. 2003 - Played first events of career on ITF Circuit in Israel, winning one doubles title.

SINGLES Winner (20): 2016 - Brisbane, Indian Wells, Miami; 2013 - Australian Open, Doha, Cincinnati; 2012 - Sydney, Australian Open, Doha, IndianWells, Beijing, Linz; 2011 - Miami, Marbella, Luxembourg; 2010 - Stanford, Moscow; 2009 - Brisbane, Memphis, Miami. Finalist (16): 2015 - Doha; 2014 - Brisbane; 2013 - Rome, Carlsbad, US Open; 2012 - Stuttgart, Madrid, US Open; 2011 - Madrid, WTA Finals;2010 - Dubai, Eastbourne; 2008 - Gold Coast, Prague; 2007 - Oeiras, Tashkent. DOUBLES Winner (6): 2011 - Madrid, Stanford (both w/Kirilenko); 2010 - Cincinnati (w/Kirilenko); 2009 - Memphis (w/Wozniacki), Indian Wells (w/Zvonareva); 2006 - Tashkent (w/Poutchek). Finalist (10): 2011 - Australian Open, Toronto (both w/Kirilenko); 2009 - Roland Garros (w/Vesnina); 2008 - Australian Open (w/Peer), AmeliaIsland (w/Vesnina); 2007 - Stanford, San Diego (both w/Chakvetadze), Luxembourg (w/Peer), Moscow (w/Poutchek); 2006 - Memphis (w/Wozniacki). MIXED DOUBLES Winner (3): 2012 - Olympics (w/Mirnyi); 2008 - Roland Garros (w/B.Bryan); 2007 - US Open (w/Mirnyi). Finalist (1): 2007 - Australian Open (w/Mirnyi). ADDITIONAL Belarusian Fed Cup Team, 2005, 2007, 2009-11, 2015-16; Belarusian Olympic Team, 2008, 2012.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

CAREER IN REVIEW

Currently without a coach ... Mother's name is Alla; father's name is Fedor; has one brother, Max ... Introduced to tennis at age 7 by mother ...Favorite shot is backhand; favorite surface is hardcourts ... Speaks Belarusian, English and Russian ... Enjoys music (rock, club hip-hop, R&B),seeing friends, surfing, paddle boarding, cooking, comedy and karaoke ... Favorite cities are hometown of Minsk and New York City; spendsmost of her time living and training in Monaco...... Admires Roger Federer for his professionalism on and off of the court.

VICTORIA AZARENKA







2015 - Near-Top 20 season (finishing No.22); runner-up at Doha (l. to Safarova in final); QF three times at Rome (l. to Sharapova), Wimbledon(l. to S.Williams) and US Open (l. to Halep); reached 4r once, 3r six times (incl. Roland Garros and Madrid - l. to S.Williams 76(5) 36 76(1); held3mp at 6-5 third set) and 2r twice; fell 1r once (Brisbane - l. to Ka.Pliskova 46 76(7) 64; help 2mp in second set - 1mp at 5-4, 1mp at 6-5 in tie-break). 2014 - Injury-marred season (finishing No.32); best results in nine events played were runner-up finish at Brisbane (l. to S.Williams in final) andthree QFs (incl. Australian Open - l. to A.Radwanska, US Open - l. to Makarova); reached 2r four times (incl. Wimbledon) and fell 1r once; hadstarted year at No.2; biggest injury was left foot injury (played just one match in four and a half months between February and mid-June, atIndian Wells, withdrawing from Doha, Miami, Monterrey, Madrid, Rome and Roland Garros) but also struggled w/right knee injury (withdrewfrom Cincinnati) and right foot injury (withdrew from Wuhan, Beijing and Luxembourg). 2013 - Third straight Top 3 season (finishing No.2); won three WTA titles at Australian Open (second Grand Slam title; d. Li in final), Doha (d.S.Williams in final) and Cincinnati (d. S.Williams in final); runner-up three times at Rome (l. to S.Williams in final), Carlsbad (l. to Stosur in final)and US Open (l. to S.Williams in final); SF twice at Brisbane (withdrew prior to match w/toe injury) and Roland Garros (l. to Sharapova); QFonce; reached 2r three times (incl. Wimbledon); fell 1r once (Beijing); fell in RR at WTA Finals (went 1-2); struggled with various injuriesthroughout season, first right toe injury (withdrew prior to SF match at Brisbane), then right foot injury (withdrew from Dubai), right ankle injury(withdrew prior to QF match at Indian Wells then from Miami and Monterrey), then right knee injury (withdrew prior to 2r match at Wimbledon)and low back injury (withdrew from Toronto). 2012 - First No.1 season; won six WTA titles at Sydney (d. Li in final), Australian Open (first Grand Slam title; d. Sharapova in final), Doha (d.Stosur in final), Indian Wells (d. Sharapova in final), Beijing (d. Sharapova in final) and Linz (d. Goerges in final); runner-up three times atStuttgart (l. to Sharapova), Madrid (l. to S.Williams) and US Open (l. to S.Williams); SF three times at Wimbledon (l. to S.Williams), Olympics (l.to S.Williams; d. Kirilenko in bronze medal match) and WTA Finals (l. to Sharapova in SF); QF twice; reached 4r once (Roland Garros), 3r onceand 2r once; rose to No.1 on January 30 (after Australian Open; rose from No.3 to No.1 - first player ever to skip No.2 to reach No.1 for firsttime); 26-0 start to the season was best since Hingis in 1997 (37-0). 2011 - First Top 3 season (finishing No.3); won three WTA titles at Miami (d. Sharapova in final), Marbella (d. Begu in final) and Luxembourg (d.Niculescu in final); runner-up twice at Madrid (l. to Kvitova in final) and WTA Finals (l. to Kvitova in final); SF three times at Wimbledon (l. toKvitova), Toronto (l. to S.Williams) and Tokyo [Pan Pacific] (l. to A.Radwanska); QF five times (incl. Roland Garros - l. to Li); reached 4r once(Australian Open), 3r three times (incl. US Open) and 2r twice; fell 1r once; made Top 5 debut on April 11 (after Marbella, rose from No.6 to No.5), rose to No.4 on May 9 (after Madrid, rose from No.5 to No.4 - new Belarusian record) and to No.3 on September 12 (after US Open, rosefrom No.5 to No.3); won two WTA doubles titles. 2010 - Another Top 10 season (finishing No.10); won two WTA titles at Stanford (d. Sharapova in final) and Moscow (d. Kirilenko in final);runner-up twice at Dubai (l. to V.Williams in final) and Eastbourne (l. to Makarova in final); SF three times at Sydney (l. to Dementieva),Montréal (ret. vs. Zvonareva w/left foot blister) and Tokyo [Pan Pacific] (l. to Wozniacki); QF twice (incl. Australian Open - l. to S.Williams 46 76(4) 62; led 64 40); reached 4r once, 3r twice (incl. Wimbledon) and 2r five times (incl. US Open - ret. vs. Dulko w/headache); fell 1r three times(incl. Roland Garros); fell in RR stage at WTA Finals (went 2-1 in RR); also won one WTA doubles title. 2009 - First Top 10 season (finishing No.7); won first three WTA titles at Brisbane (d. Bartoli in final), Memphis (d. Wozniacki in final) and Miami(d. S.Williams in final); SF twice at Indian Wells (l. to Zvonareva) and Rome (l. to Kuznetsova); QF three times (incl. Roland Garros - l. toSafina, Wimbledon - l. to S.Williams); reached 4r once (Australian Open), 3r three times (incl. US Open) and 2r four times; fell in RR stage atWTA Finals (went 1-2 in RR; l. to Wozniacki 16 64 75 in second match after holding mp at 5-4 third set); made Top 10 debut on March 23 (afterIndian Wells; rose from No.11 to No.10); also won two WTA doubles titles. 2 008 - First Top 20 season; runner-up twice at Gold Coast (l. to Li in final) and Prague (l. to Zvonareva in final); SF three times at Berlin (l. toSafina), Montréal (l. to Safina) and Stuttgart (l. to Petrova); QF twice at Los Angeles and Zürich; reached 4r once (Roland Garros), 3r seventimes (incl. other three majors, Olympics and Miami - l. to Kuznetsova 16 75 60; held mp at 61 53) and 2r once; fell 1r four times; made Top 20debut on May 12 (after Berlin; rose from No.26 to No.19); also made doubles Top 10 debut on May 12 (after Berlin; rose from No.12 to No.10);injured left knee in Paris [Indoors] 1r then had surgery (withdrew from Antwerp, Doha and Indian Wells). 2007 - First Top 30 season; runner-up twice at Estoril (l. to Arn 26 61 76(3) in final; held 2mp at 5-4 third set) and Tashkent (l. to Parmentier infinal); SF at Prague (ret. vs. Morigami w/hip strain); QF three times at Los Angeles, Luxembourg and Moscow; reached 4r once (US Open), 3rfour times (incl. Australian Open, Wimbledon) and 2r once; fell 1r four times (incl. Roland Garros) and in qualifying once; made Top 50 debut onMay 14 (No.55 to No.49); won first Grand Slam mixed doubles title at US Open (w/Mirnyi); won one doubles title on ITF Circuit. 2006 - First Top 100 season; SF at Tashkent (l. to Sun); reached 3r twice (incl. US Open) and 2r twice; fell 1r seven times (incl. other threemajors) and in qualifying twice; made Top 100 debut on July 10 (after Wimbledon; rose from No.101 to No.99); won one WTA doubles title. 2005 - Played first two WTA main draws, falling 1r at Kolkata but reaching SF at Guangzhou (l. to Yan); fell in qualifying twice; won one singlestitle and one doubles title on ITF Circuit. 2004 - Continued to play on ITF Circuit. 2003 - Played first events of career on ITF Circuit in Israel, winning one doubles title.

VICTORIA AZARENKA






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PREVIEW NOTES: MUBADALA SILICON VALLEY CLASSIC SAN JOSE, CA, USA | JULY 30 – AUGUST 5, 2018 | USD $799,000 PREMIER EVENT

WTA Website: www.wtatennis.com | @WTA | facebook.com/wta Tournament Website: www.mubadalasvc.com | @mubadalasvc | facebook.com/ MubadalaSVC WTA Communications: Estelle LaPorte ([email protected]), Catherine Sneddon ([email protected])

SAP Tennis Analytics for Media is an online portal that provides real-time data and insights to media during every WTA event and across all devices. Please email [email protected] to request your individual login to grant access to SAP Tennis Analytics for Media. SAN JOSE QUICK FACTS Main draw dates: Monday - Sunday, July 30 – August 5, 2018 Singles Final: Sunday, August 5, 2:00pm Doubles Final: Sunday, August 5, 12pm(TBC) Venue: San Jose State University Tennis Complex Status: WTA Premier event Staging: Tournament’s 48th year (first year in San Jose) Draw sizes: 28 singles / 16 doubles teams / 16 singles qualifying Surface: Decoturf Hard / Outdoors Total prize money: USD $799,000 Tennis Ball: Penn Championship 2017 Singles Final: [3] Madison Keys (USA) d. [6] Coco Vandeweghe (USA) 7-6(4) 6-4 2017 Doubles Final: [3] Abigail Spears/Coco Vandeweghe (USA/USA) d. Alizé Cornet/Alicja Rosolska (FRA/POL) 6-2 6-3 PRIZE MONEY AND RANKING POINT BREAKDOWN

SINGLES USD $ RANK

POINTS

DOUBLES USD $ RANK

POINTS Winner 136,695 470 Winner 42,850 470 Runner-Up 72,835 305 Runner-Up 22,900 305 Semifinalist 39,820 185 Semifinalist 12,510 185 Quarterfinalist 22,760 100 Quarterfinalist 6,365 100 Round of 16 11,380 55 Round of 16 3,460 1 Round of 32 7,460 1

PREVIOUS CHAMPIONS AND RUNNERS-UP

YEAR CHAMPION RUNNER-UP 2017 Madison Keys Coco Vandeweghe 2016 Johanna Konta Venus Williams 2015 Angelique Kerber Karolina Pliskova 2014 Serena Williams Angelique Kerber 2013 Dominika Cibulkova Agnieszka Radwanska 2012 Serena Williams CoCo Vandeweghe 2011 Serena Williams Marion Bartoli 2010 Victoria Azarenka Maria Sharapova 2009 Marion Bartoli Venus Williams

If highlighted denotes competing in 2018 Stanford main draw


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MAIN DRAW QUICK HITS (excludes qualifiers) Singles wildcards: Ashley Kratzer (USA), Claire Liu (USA), Garbine Muguruza (ESP), Venus Williams (USA) Youngest singles player: Claire Liu, 18 years old (May 25, 2000) Oldest singles player: Venus Williams, 38 years old (June 17, 1980) Singles withdrawals: Catherine Bellis (right elbow), Polona Hercog (right thigh), Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (right shoulder), Maria Sharapova, Coco Vandeweghe (right ankle injury) Main draw debutantes: Timea Babos (HUN), Mihaela Buzarnescu (ROU), Danielle Collins (USA), Sofia Kenin (USA), Ashley Kratzer (USA), Vera Lapko (BLR), Elise Mertens (BEL), Kristina Mladenovic (FRA), Maria Sakkari (GRE), Wang Qiang (CHN) TOURNAMENT TALKING POINTS

One of the longest-running tournaments on tour moves 20 miles down the road for its 48th staging, switching from Stanford to the San Jose State University Tennis Complex

Serena Williams, the champion in 2011, 2012 and 2014, is competing her first event since her run to the final at Wimbledon, and will be joined by sister Venus Williams – herself and eight-time finalist here – in a strong draw

Three other former champions are in the draw, Madison Keys (2017), Johanna Konta (2016) and Victoria Azarenka (2011)

The top seed is Garbiñe Muguruza, who after a first-round bye will meet either Azarenka or Kateryna Bondarenko

One To Watch – Danielle Collins. This time last year, the American was ranked outside the Top 150 and competing on the ITF Circuit. This season, she already has 28 wins to her name and earlier this summer posted a career-high ranking of No.39. The catalyst for the rise were impressive showings in 2018’s first two big events on American soil, reaching the fourth round at Indian Wells and semifinals at Miami

TOP FOUR SEEDS’ PREVIOUS TOURNAMENT HISTORY

PLAYER TOURNAMENT HISTORY WIN-LOSS WIN % [1] Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP) SF (1): 2017 (l. Keys)

QF (1): 2014 (l. Kerber) 4-2 .667

[2] Madison Keys (USA) Won (1): 2017 (d. Vandeweghe in final) 2r (2): 2013 (l. Dushevina), 2015 (l. Tomljanovic)

6-2 .750

[3] Venus Williams (USA) WON (2): 2000 (d. Davenport in final), 2002 (d. Clijsters in final) R-Up (6): 1998, 1999, 2004 (l. Davenport), 2005 (l. Clijsters), 2009 (l. Bartoli), 2016 (l. Konta) QF (3): 1995 (l. Maleeva), 2001 (l. Shaughnessy), 2014 (l. Petkovic) 2r (1): 1994 (Sánchez-Vicario) 1r (1): 1996 (l. Schultz-McCarthy)

33-11 .750

[4] Elise Mertens (BEL) Making tournament debut - -


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COUNTRY BREAKDOWN Excluding qualifiers, a total of 12 countries are represented in the main draw, led by the USA with 10 players:

Australia (1) Belarus (2) Belgium (1) China (2)

Ajla Tomljanovic Victoria Azarenka, Vera Lapko Elise Mertens Wang Qiang, Zhang Shuai

France (1) Great Britain (2) Greece (1) Hungary (1) Romania (1) Spain (1)

Kristina Mladenovic Johanna Konta, Heather Watson Maria Sakkari Timea Babos Mihaela Buzarnescu Garbiñe Muguruza

Ukraine (1) Kateryna Bondarenko USA (10) Danielle Collins, Sofia Kenin, Madison Keys, Ashley Kratzer, Claire Liu, Christina

McHale, Alison Riske, Sachia Vickery, Serena Williams, Venus Williams


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