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[5] ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #5) vs. [8] SERENA WILLIAMS (USA #8)

Serena leads 4-1 Svitolina is aiming to become the first Ukrainian woman to compete in a Grand Slam title match; Owns 6-2 record this year against American opposition including three victories this fortnight...By making the

final, Serena would own the largest gap between first Grand Slam final appearance and most recent final appearance at 19 yrs, 362 days

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[13] BELINDA BENCIC (SUI #12) vs. [15] BIANCA ANDREESCU (CAN #15)

Bencic leads 2-1 Bencic is the first Swiss woman to reach the SF of a major since Bacsinszky (2017 Roland Garros) and is looking to become just the second Swiss woman ever to reach a Grand Slam final (Hingis)...Andreescu is the first Canadian woman to reach SFs of US Open since Carling Bassett in 1984 (Andreescu is second

in Open Era) and is aiming to be just the second Canadian woman ever to reach a Grand Slam final (Bouchard)

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US OPEN - SEMIFINALS

PLAYERNAME

USO W/L*

YTD W/L*

CAREER W/L*

YTD PRIZE $

CAREER PRIZE $

YTD TITLES

CAREER TITLES

[5] Elina Svitolina 16-7 28-15 254-139 $2,016,896 $15,125,521 0 13

[8] Serena Williams 100-12 24-5 816-137 $2,410,515 $90,643,816 0 72

[13] Belinda Bencic 12-4 41-15 140-102 $1,874,235 $5,607,368 1 3

[15] Bianca Andreescu 5-0 32-4 35-9 $2,201,985 $2,417,873 2 2

PLAYER NAME R128 R64 R32 R16 QF SF* F W TOTAL*

[5] Elina Svitolina 6 6 7 4 4 2 0 0 29[8] Serena Williams 1 2 9 9 14 6 9 23 73[13] Belinda Bencic 4 5 6 3 1 1 0 0 20[15] Bianca Andreescu 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 4

THE FINAL FOUR

CAREER GRAND SLAM RECORDS - BY ROUND REACHED

*Includes 2019 US Open

*Includes 2019 US Open

SEMIFINAL RECORDSPLAYER NAME BEST USO RESULT LAST FINAL REACHED CAREER SF W/L CAREER FINAL W/L

[5] Elina Svitolina SF (1): 2019 2018 WTA Finals (WON) 15-19 13-2

[8] Serena Williams WON (6): 1999, 2002, 2008, 2012-14 2019 Toronto (R-Up) 94-22 72-24

[13] Belinda Bencic SF (1): 2019 2019 Mallorca (R-Up) 9-6 3-6[15] Bianca Andreescu SF (1): 2019 2019 Toronto (WON) 3-1 2-1

POTENTIAL FINAL HEAD-TO-HEADSSVITOLINA SERENA

BENCIC BENCIC LEADS 2-1 WILLIAMS LEADS 2-1

ANDREESCU ANDREESCU LEADS 1-0 ANDREESCU LEADS 1-0


Despite her R16 defeat, Ashleigh Barty will return to the No.1 spot after the three other contenders for the top spot at the US Open- Simona Halep, Karolina Pliskova and Naomi Osaka – were all eliminated. Pliskova will rise to No.2 unless Elina Svitolina wins the title. Svitolina will move to World No.3 with her SF showing and No.2 with the title.

Serena Williams will re-enter the Top 10 and could rise to No.8 or No.9 with a runner-up finish or No.6 with her record-tying 24th Grand Slam title.

Belinda Bencic has breached the Top 10 again with her semifinal advancement. Will be No.8 or No.9 by reaching the final, or as high as No.4 with the title.

Bianca Andreescu will make her Top 10 debut with her win over Mertens. She can rise to No.8 or No.9 by mak-ing the final and No.5 with the trophy.

RANKING UPDATESTHE LAST FOUR This year’s US Open semifinals will feature [5] Elina Svitolina, [8] Serena Williams, [13] Belinda Bencic and [15] Bianca Andreescu.

Both Bencic and Andreescu are making their Grand Slam semifinal debut today. While Svitolina is into her second career major semifinal and Serena is making her 38th trip to the final four of a Slam.

The final four lineup at six of the past seven US Opens has featured at least one woman making her Grand Slam semifinal debut (exception was 2017).

From the time of her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the 2014 US Open, to her debut semifinal appearance in New York five years later, Bencic has been through quite an up-and-down road to get back to the top of the women’s game. Following her career year in 2015 which saw her finish with a career year-end ranking of No.14, a miriad of injuries and form took her to as low as No.318 in 2017. Now back in form and back at the top of her game as well as the women’s game in 2019, coupled with her results this fortnight at Flushing Meadows, the Swiss Miss will return to the WTA Top 10 three years and seven months after she left it on February 26th 2016.

Svitolina and Andreescu are both looking to make history for their respective countries. Back at Wimbledon a few months ago, Svitolina became the first Ukrainian to reach the semfinals of a Grand Slam. Therefore, she is aiming to be the first to reach a Slam final and hoping to eventually become the first-ever to capture a major title for her country. Andreescu on the other hand is the first Canadian to advance to the final four of a Slam since Eugenie Bouchard did so at 2014 Wimbledon (lost in final) and would be just the second Canadian ever (Bouchard) to reach a major title match.

The 37-year-old veteran, Serena Williams, is aiming to tie the all-time Grand Slam singles title record at 24 (w/Court).

EARLY BLOOMER Should Bianca Andreescu advance to the US Open final, she would join an elite list of just 6 women to have reached a Grand Slam final in four major appearances or less.

The all-time record for the fewest Grand Slam main draw appearances before reaching a Slam final in the Open Era is two - Pam Shriver was runner-up at 1978 US Open, having only contested Wimbledon two months prior.

When Jelena Ostapenko hoisted the 2017 Roland Gar-ros title, she was making just her eighth Grand Slam main draw appearance.

Should Andreescu go on to win the title, it would be the fewest number of Grand Slam main draw appearanc-es (four) before winning a debut Slam title since Maria Sharapova at 2004 Wimbledon (seven appearances); this was also just Maria’s second attempt at the All En-gland Club. Consequently, this would also tie the fastest record - Monica Seles who was the fastest player to win her first major title in the Open Era, winning the 1990 Roland Garros in just her fourth Grand Slam main draw.


TEENAGE KICKS At 19-years of age, Bianca Andreescu is aiming to be the second teenager this year to advance to a Grand Slam final after Marketa Vondrousova did so at Roland Garros (l. Barty in F).

This is the first time since 2009 that more than one teen-ager has reached a Grand Slam semifinal in a season. Ana Ivanovic (Roland Garros) and Maria Sharapova (Australian Open) were the last teen duo to reach Slam finals in the same season in 2007.

Prior to Vondrousova, the last teen Slam finalist was Caroline Wozniacki, who finished runner-up to Kim Clijsters at the 2009 US Open.

A teenager has won a Grand Slam singles title 33 times (12 different players) in the Open Era. The last teenager to win a Grand Slam title was Maria Sharapova (19 yrs, 132 days) at the 2006 US Open.

A DASHING DEBUT Bianca Andreescu is making her US Open main draw debut this fortnight and has won five matches in a row to advance to her first career Grand Slam semifinal.

This is the best performance by a debutant at the US Open since Venus Williams advanced to the final in her first Flushing Meadows campaign in 1997 (I. Hingis).

QUICK HITS The four semifinalists have won a combined 23 Grand Slam singles titles...all of them won by Serena Williams.

Serena has made more Grand Slam appearances than the other three semifinalists combined.

Serena and Svitolina are the only two players to reach more than one Grand Slam semifinal in 2019 with both having also reached that stage at Wimbledon.

All four semifinalists will exit the 2019 US Open in the Top 10 of the WTA Rankings.

The last Swiss woman to reach a Grand Slam SF was Bacsinszky at 2017 Roland Garros (SF) and the last time a Swiss reached SF at US Open was Hingis in 2001 (SF). Hingis is the only Swiss woman to reach a Grand Slam final. She is a five-time major champion and 12-time runner-up, having won the US Open in 1997 and finished runner-up in 1998-99

SLAMMIN’ SUCCESS Since 1968 Roland Garros, 50 women have won at least one Grand Slam title (29 have gone on to win more).

Of these 50, 11 first-time champions have come at the US Open, with three first-time winners coming from the last three years (2018 – Osaka, 2017 – Stephens, and 2015 – Pennetta).

The last 10 Grand Slams have produced six first-time winners: (2019 Roland Garros – Barty, 2018 US Open – Osaka, 2018 Roland Garros – Halep, 2018 Australian Open – Wozniacki, 2017 US Open – Stephens, 2017 Roland Garros – Ostapenko).

A TELLING TREND... Serena Williams has lost in the US Open final on three occasions including 2018 against Naomi Osaka (also 2001, 2011) - each previous time she lost in the final she would then go on to win the title the following year (2002, 2012)


IN GOOD COMPANY With their R16 victories, Johanna Konta and Elina Svitolina became the 14th and 15th active players to have reached the QF stage at all four Grand Slams:

NAME AO RG W US TtlSerena 12 10 14 15 51Venus 9 5 13 12 39Sharapova 8 9 5 3 25Azarenka 5 3 4 4 16Kuznetsova 3 7 4 2 16Halep 3 4 4 2 13Kvitova 3 1 5 2 11Kerber 2 2 4 2 10Cibulkova 2 2 3 1 8Keys 2 2 1 2 7Konta 2 1 2 1 6Svitolina 2 2 1 1 6Stephens 1 2 1 2 6Zvonareva 2 1 1 2 6Pavylchenkova 2 1 1 1 5

A FLUSHING STREAK [8] Serena Williams advanced to her 10th consecutive US Open semifinal, and 13th at Flushing Meadows over-all. These 10 semifinals are her best streak at the Slams - her next best streak of reaching consecutive semifinals or better is Wimbledon (2002-04, 2008-2010 and 2015-19 - withdrew from 2017 Wimbledon) and Australian Open (2015-17)

SPREADING THE LOVE Through the first three Slams of 2019, there have been three different champions: Naomi Osaka (Australian Open), Ashleigh Barty (Roland Garros) and Simona Halep (Wimbledon). With all three now eliminated from the 2019 US Open this means there will be four different Grand Slam champions in the same season for the third year in a row.

This is only the fifth time in the Open Era that there have been four different Slam winners in a season in consecutive years - also 1977-78, 1998-99, 2004-05 and 2017-18.

SEMIFINAL SUCCESS RATEUS OPEN 68.4% (13/19)

WIMBLEDON 63.2% (12/19)

AUSTRALIAN OPEN 44.4% (8/18)

ROLAND GARROS 29.4% (5/17)

HARD COURT SLAMS 56.8% (21/37)

TOTAL 52.1% (38/73)

AGE IS JUST A NUMBERAt 37 years and 347 days, Serena Williams is bidding to become the oldest Grand Slam finalist in the Open Era:

OPEN ERA: OLDEST GRAND SLAM FINALISTS

PLAYER AGE GRAND SLAM RESULT

SERENA WILLIAMS 37 yrs 347 d 2019 US OPEN ???

SERENA WILLIAMS 37 yrs 291 d 2019 WIMBLEDON R-Up

MARTINA NAVRATILOVA 37 yrs, 258 d 1994 WIMBLEDON R-Up

VENUS WILLIAMS 37 yrs, 29 d 2017 WIMBLEDON R-Up

SERENA WILLIAMS 36 yrs, 349 d 2018 US OPEN ???

VENUS WILLIAMS 36 yrs, 226 d 2017 AUS OPEN R-Up

SERENA WILLIAMS 35 yrs, 125 d 2017 AUS OPEN WON

MARTINA NAVRATILOVA 34 yrs, 325 d 1991 US OPEN R-Up

SERENA WILLIAMS 34 yrs, 287 d 2016 WIMBLEDON WON

CLASS IN SESSION Since Serena Williams won her first Grand Slam title (1999 US Open), 58 different players have made their Top 10 debut.

In contrast, 131 players total have reached the Top 10 in WTA rankings history.


THE SWISS MISS With her Round of 16 upset over reigning World No.1 Naomi Osaka, Belinda Bencic now owns a four-match active win streak vs. World No.1s.

The Swiss Miss joins an elite grouping of 10 other active players to have compiled at least four wins vs. a World No.1.

She is the first player to do so since fellow US Open quar-terfinalist Elina Svitolina produced a remarkable 6-match win streak spanning from 2016-18.

PLAYER W L MATCHESSERENA 17 12 29VENUS 15 24 39KUZNETSOVA 7 20 27SHARAPOVA 7 17 24SVITOLINA 6 3 9CIBULKOVA 5 13 18KVITOVA 5 4 9BENCIC 4 1 4WOZNIACKI 4 7 11ZVONAREVA 4 7 11MUGURUZA 4 3 7

With Serena Williams’ quarterfinal win over Qiang Wang, she achieved her 100th career victory at the US Open - a personal best win total record for her across the Slams, bettering her success at Wimbledon (98):

A SF win would tie her with the all-time US Open wins record held by Chris Evert (101):

US OPEN MOST WINS ALL-TIME 101 Chris Evert >100 Serena Williams* 89 Martina Navratilova 79 Venus Williams* 73 Stefanie Graf *Venus includes R128 win at USO19*Includes 2019 USO for Serena

CHASING HISTORY

September 5, 1989 - The storied US Open career of Chris Evert comes to an end as the six-time champion is defeated by Zina Garrison 7-6(1), 6-2 in Evert’s final US Open match in the women’s quarterfinals.

Evert made her debut at the US Open in 1971 as a 16-year amateur, reaching the semifinals en route to winning a record 101 of 113 tournament matches.

ON THIS DAY...

BIG STAGE PLAYERS This season’s Grand Slam season has seen a strong consistency amongst players returning to the latter stages of majors.

Below is a look-in at the most consistent WTA players in the form of most major wins in 2019:

Most wins at Slams in 2019* 17 Serena Williams (thru to SF)17 Barty (fell in R16) 15 Svitolina (thru to SF)15 Halep (fell in 2r) 14 Konta (fell in QF)13 Ka.Pliskova (fell in R16)

*Updated with 2019 US Open results

US OPEN - USA, NY | Aug 26 - Sep 07, 2019 | $26,759,150 | GRAND SLAM MATCH NOTES

[5] ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #5) vs. [8] SERENA WILLIAMS (USA #8)

Head to Head: SERENA WILLIAMS leads 4-1

2016 HARD O R16 ELINA SVITOLINA 6-4 6-3 OLYMPICS 2016 CLAY O R16 SERENA WILLIAMS 62 mins 6-1 6-1 ROLAND GARROS 2015 HARD O SF SERENA WILLIAMS 87 mins 6-4 6-3 CINCINNATI 2015 HARD O R3 SERENA WILLIAMS 99 mins 4-6 6-2 6-0 AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2012 CLAY O R1 SERENA WILLIAMS 6-2 6-1 FED CUP WEEK

2 - PLAYOFFS

ELINA SVITOLINA 5 9

12-09-1994 (24) $2,016,896 $15,125,521

0 / 13 0 / 2

28-15 / 254-139 7-7 / 77-48 3-7 / 47-41

0 / 72 0 / 23

100-12 24-5 / 816-137

7-1 / 161-60 0-0 / 107-52

WTA RANKING

PORSCHE RACE TO SHENZHEN LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE)

YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY

SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER)

US OPEN 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 TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) *

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

16-7

15-3 / 505-83 22-9 / 185-92

6-4 / 53-65 1-3 / 30-35

1-0 / 21-21

5-3 / 305-97 2-2 / 174-72

0-0 / 68-13

SERENA WILLIAMS 8 10

26-09-1981 (37) $2,410,515 $90,643,816

* Updated entering 2019 US Open SF

ROAD TO THE SEMIFINALS [5] ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #5) QF: d. [16] JOHANNA KONTA (GBR #16) 6-4,6-4 (1h42) R16: d. [10] MADISON KEYS (USA #9) 7-5,6-4 (1h0) R32: d. [32] DAYANA YASTREMSKA (UKR #32) 6-2,6-0 (1h0) R64: d. VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #52) 6-4,6-4 (1h52) R128: d. [WC] WHITNEY OSUIGWE (USA #109) 6-1,7-5 (1h15)

[8] SERENA WILLIAMS (USA #8) QF: d. [18] QIANG WANG (CHN #18) 6-1,6-0 (0h44) R16: d. [22] PETRA MARTIC (CRO #22) 6-3,6-4 (1h32) R32: d. KAROLINA MUCHOVA (CZE #44) 6-3,6-2 (1h14) R64: d. [WC] CATHERINE MCNALLY (USA #121) 5-7,6-3,6-1 (1h54) R128: d. MARIA SHARAPOVA (RUS #87) 6-1,6-1 (1h0)

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Total games: 91 Won/lost: 65-26 Sets won/lost: 10-1 Total time on court: 6h24 Average time on court: 1h17 Average rank of opponent: 58


ELINA SVITOLINA 2018

SERENA WILLIAMS 2018

US OPEN Tournament History * Qualifying match

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R16 L - ANASTASIJA SEVASTOVA (LAT #18) 6-3 1-6 6-0

2017 R16 L - MADISON KEYS (USA #16) 7-6(2) 1-6 6-4

2016 R3 L - PETRA KVITOVA (CZE #16) 6-3 6-4

2015 R3 L - EKATERINA MAKAROVA (RUS #13) 6-3 7-5

2014 R1 L - POLONA HERCOG (SLO #76) 6-2 7-6(4)

2013 R2 L - CHRISTINA MCHALE (USA #114) 6-4 3-6 7-5

2012 R1 L - ANA IVANOVIC (SRB #13) 6-3 6-2

F 6-2 6-4 L - NAOMI OSAKA (JPN #19)

2016 SF 6-2 7-6(5) L - KAROLINA PLISKOVA (CZE #11)

2015 SF 2-6 6-4 6-4 L - ROBERTA VINCI (ITA #43)

2014 F 6-3 6-3 W - CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #11)

2013 F 7-5 6-7(6) 6-1 W - VICTORIA AZARENKA (BLR #2)

2012 F 6-2 2-6 7-5 W - VICTORIA AZARENKA (BLR #1)

2011 F 6-2 6-3 L - SAMANTHA STOSUR (AUS #10)

2009 SF 6-4 7-5 L - KIM CLIJSTERS (BEL #9,999)

2008 F 6-4 7-5 W - JELENA JANKOVIC (SRB #2)

2007 QF 7-6(3) 6-1 L - JUSTINE HENIN (BEL #1)

2006 R16 6-4 0-6 6-2 L - AMÉLIE MAURESMO (FRA #1)

2005 R16 7-6(5) 6-2 L - VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #10)

2004 QF 2-6 6-4 6-4 L - JENNIFER CAPRIATI (USA #8)

2002 F 6-4 6-3 W - VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #2)

2001 F 6-2 6-4 L - VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #4)

2000 QF 6-4 6-2 L - LINDSAY DAVENPORT (USA #2)

1999 F 6-3 7-6(4) W - MARTINA HINGIS (SUI #1)

1998 R3 6-3 0-6 7-5 L - IRINA SPIRLEA (ROM #8)


VSELINASVITOLINA

SERENAWILLIAMS

US OPEN US OPEN• Making eighth consecutive appearance at US Open,

where she is through to SF for the first time tying her career best Grand Slam result after reaching SF at Wimbledon this year (l. eventual champion Halep)

• Previous best results here were R16 runs in 2017 (l. eventual R-Up Keys) and 2018 (l. Sevastova)

• Made Slam main draw debut here in 2012, coming through qualifying before falling in 1r (l. Ivanovic)

• Only player in SF to not drop a set in previous five rounds

• In 1r this year, struck 17 winners and 17 unforced errors to see off the third-youngest player in the draw Osuigwe

• Then defeated the oldest woman in the field, 39-year-old V.Williams, in 2r; improving record vs. the American to 2-0 having won their only previous hard court meeting en route to 2017 Toronto title

• Committed just 13 unforced errors in both 3r win over compatriot Yastremska and then Keys in R16

• Entering match with No.9 Keys, record against Top 10 players at the majors stood at 0-7; in terms of ranking, best win previous win at this level was over No.16 Ivanovic at 2016 Roland Garros

• It was also the 30th win over a Top 10 player of her career (30-35), and first of 2019, having fallen to No.4 Osaka (Australian Open), No.3 Halep (Doha) and No.7 Halep (Wimbledon)

• With win over Konta in QF, became the first woman from Ukraine to reach SF at Flushing Meadows.Two others had previosuly reached QF - Tsurenko last year (l. Osaka) and K.Bondarenko in 2009 (l. Wickmayer)

• Faces No.8 S.Williams today - has lost four out of five matchups between the two although won their most recent meeting at the Olympics in 2016

• Owns 6-2 record this year against American opposi-tion including three victories this fortnight

• Looking for just her second Top 10 win this year, first came against No.9 Keys in R16

• Since making Grand Slam debut here in 2012, has not missed a major, compiling a 57-28 record

• Seeded No.7 this fortnight – her 20th consecutive seeding at a Slam, and 11th as a Top 10 seed

• At 2017 US Open, was one of eight players in con-tention for the World No.1 spot – needed to reach SF and have other results go her way

• Currently sits at No.9 on the Porsche Race to Shenzhen leaderboard, and looking to qualify for the Shiseido WTA Finals Shenzhen - where she is defending champion - for the third year in a row

• One of three Ukrainians to begin 2019 singles main draw (also Kozlova and Yastremska)

• Making 19th appearance at US Open where she is a six-time champion: 1999 (d. Hingis in F), 2002 (d. V.Williams in F), 2008 (d. Jankovic in F), 2012 (d. Azarenka in F), 2013 (d. Azarenka in F) and 2014 (d. Wozniacki in F). Tied with Chris Evert for most US Open titles in the Open Era

• Also a three-time runner-up, in 2001 (l. V.Williams), 2011 (l. Stosur) and 2018 (l. Osaka). Fell in SFs on three occasions, in 2009 (l. eventual champion Clijsters), 2015 (l. eventual R-Up Vinci) and 2016 (l. eventual R-Up Ka.Pliskova)

• With 100-12 record at Flushing Meadows, is one win away from tying Chris Evert (101-12) for most US Open wins in the Open Era ahead of Martina Navratilova (89-17) - only the fourth player to ever reach 100+ wins at one single major, in addition to Evert also Navratilova (120 wins at Wimbledon) and Federer (101 wins at Wimbledon)

• By making the final, would own the largest gap between first Grand Slam final appearance and most recent final appearance at 19 yrs, 362 days (d. Hingis in 1999 US Open) - previously held by V.Wil-liams at 19 yrs, 312 days (l. Hingis in 1997 US Open, l. Muguruza in 2017 Wimbledon)

• One of eight players in the Open Era to win Wimble-don and the US Open in the same year (2002, 2012)

• Her 19 appearances at the US Open is second most among players in 2019 starting field, two behind her sister, Venus (21)

• Doubles champion here in 1999 (w/V.Williams d. Rubin/Testud in F) and 2009 (w/V.Williams d. Black/Huber). Also won mixed doubles (w/Mirnyi) in 1998

• Bidding this fortnight to tie Australia’s Margaret Court on 24 Grand Slam singles titles, the all-time record. Her record in Grand Slam finals stands at 23-9

• Winner of 13 major titles on hard – most of any play-er in Open Era; across all WTA events, has won 46 hard court titles, more than any other active player

• Contesting her 73rd Grand Slam main draw – in the Open Era, trails only her sister Venus (84, including 2019 US Open)

• Seeded No.8 this fortnight; has been seeded on all but two of her appearances in New York (exceptions were debut in 1998 and 2006)

• In 1r on Monday night, extended record over Shara-pova to 20-2, winning 6-1 6-1 in 59 minutes

• Against her Russian rival did not drop serve once, saving five break points in second set; also won 100% of points on Sharapova’s second serve

• Including win over Sharapova, is now 19-0 in open-ing round matches at Flushing Meadows, winning the last 15 first round matches in straight sets

• Faced young American McNally in 2r coming back from a set down. In the third set, did not lose a single point on serve and lost only five points total

VSELINASVITOLINA

SERENAWILLIAMS

• Enters US Open falling R16 at Cincinnati (l. Kenin)• Started US Open Series by reaching QFs at San

Jose (l. Sakkari) and Toronto (l. Kenin) • At Wimbledon became the first Ukrainian woman to

appear in a Grand Slam SF (l. eventual champion Halep) overcoming a previous 0-4 record in Grand Slam QFs

• Fell at opening hurdle in both Birmingham (l. Gaspa-ryan in 1r) and Eastbourne (after 1r bye, l. Cornet) Reached 3r at Roland Garros (l. Muguruza)

• Suffered 2r exit as defending champion in Rome (after 1r bye, l. Azarenka) and fell 1r at Madrid (l. Parmentier)

• Made second career WTA Premier Mandatory SF of at Indian Wells (l. eventual champion Andreescu)

• At Miami fell 2r (after 1r bye, l. Y.Wang)• Reached SF at Doha (l. Halep after leading 4-1 in

final set) and Dubai (l. eventual champion Bencic after leading 5-3 in the final set)

• Advanced to QF at Australian Open for second year in a row (l. eventual champion Osaka)

• Opened 2019 season with 2r exit at Brisbane as defending champion (after 1r bye, l. Sasnovich)

SEASON

US OPEN CONT.• Holds a 32-5 record in night matches on Arthur Ashe

(since 2004)• Defeated No.44 Muchova in 3r action - improving

3r US Open record to 18-1 (61-9 in 3r of all Grand Slams) - only loss at this stage at Flushing Meadows came in her debut in 1998 (l. Spirlea)

• Overcame No.22 Martic in R16 and Q.Wang in QF to reach a career total of 100 US Open wins and im-prove record across the Grand Slams to 348-48, the most wins in Open Era, ahead of Martina Navratilova (306-49)

• Her 44 min. win over Q.Wang tied the shortest match of the year (Halep def. Kuzmova 6-0,6-0 in 44 min. in Madrid) giving up only 15 points including only four points in the second set

• Faces No.5 Svitolina today owning career record over the Ukranian 4-1, including 2-0 at majors - defeated her in 2015 Australian Open 3r and 2016 Roland Garros R16

• Appearing in her 38th Grand Slam semifinal, third most in the Open Era behind Evert (52) and Navra-tilova (44) - owns 32-5 record in SF Slam matches, including 9-3 at US Open; last fell at this stage 2016 (l. Ka.Pliskova)

• Among active players, owns the most hard court wins 504-83 (.859), ahead of V.Williams on 479-143 (.770), heading into US Open R16

• At No.8, is currently the top-ranked American woman ahead of Keys (No.9) and Stephens (No.10) – week of August 26, 2019

GRAND SLAM HISTORY• A 23-time Grand Slam singles winner, ahead of Ste-

fanie 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 23-9 record in Slam finals, with losses com-ing at 2001 US Open (l. V.Williams), 2004 Wimble-don (l. Sharapova), 2008 Wimbledon (l. V.Williams), 2011 US Open (l. Stosur), 2016 Australian Open (l. Kerber), 2016 Roland Garros (l. Muguruza), 2018 Wimbledon (l. Kerber), 2018 US Open (l. Osaka) and 2019 Wimbledon (l. Halep)

• Aged 35y 125d at the end of 2017 Australian Open, is the oldest player to win a major in the Open Era

• Boasts the longest span of Grand Slam singles glory all-time. Pre-Open Era, Helen Wills Moody won her majors over the course of 15y 9.5m. Serena won her first Slam at 1999 US Open, 17y 6.5m before her 2017 Australian title. WTA legends Evert, Navratilova and Graf all won their Slams over a 12 year span

GRAND SLAM HISTORY• 2019 US Open marks 29th consecutive Grand Slam

main draw appearance• Has tied best Grand Slam result by reaching SF,

also made this stage at 2019 Wimbledon (l. eventual champion Halep) - previous QF record at Slams was 0-4

• Became the first woman from Ukraine to reach a major SF; on the men’s side, Medvedev made that stage at Roland Garros in 1993 (SF) and 1999 (R-Up)

• Elsewhere, has posted QF showings at 2015 Roland Garros (l. Ivanovic), 2017 Roland Garros (l. eventual R-Up Halep), 2018 Australian Open (l. Mertens) and 2019 Australian Open (l. eventual champion Osaka)

• At US Open, previous best restult was R16 showing in 2017 (l. eventual R-Up Keys) and 2018 (l. Sev-astova)

• Joint-highest seeding at a Slam is No.4 (2017 Wim-bledon and US Open, 2018 Australian Open and Roland Garros)

VSELINASVITOLINA

SERENAWILLIAMS

SEASON• Withdrew from Cincinnati w/upper back injury• Retired in Toronto final due to same injury, trailing

Andreescu 3-1 in the opening set; upset No.2 Osaka in QF to register second Top 5 win this season, having previously defeated then-No.1 Halep at the Australian Open R16

• Finished R-Up at Wimbledon (l. Halep), her 32nd Grand Slam final – the joint-second most in history, level with Navratilova and behind Evert (34)

• Fell 3r at Roland Garros (l. Kenin)• Played first event of clay season at Rome, defeating

Peterson in 1r before withdrawing against V.Williams due to a continuing left knee injury

• Fell 3r at both Indian Wells (ret. vs. Muguruza w/viral illness) and Miami (withdrew prior to match vs. Q.Wang w/left knee injury)

• On February 18, returned to Top 10 for the first time since coming back from pregnancy

• Reached QF at Australian Open (l. Ka.Pliskova after holding 4mp); overcame World No.1 Halep in R16 – was first time facing the reigning World No.1 since 2013 Doha (l. Azarenka in F) and was first win since 2013 Brisbane (d. Azarenka in SF). Aged 37, is the oldest player to defeat the reigning World No.1, bettering sister Venus’s win vs. Kerber aged 36 at 2017 Miami

• After Halep result in Melbourne, improved to 17-12 vs. World No.1s - only Navratilova has more wins with 18

• Began 2019 at Hopman Cup, posted wins over Bencic, Sakkari and Boulter as USA made RR exit

CAREER MILESTONES• Won 13th – and most prestigious – career title at

2018 WTA Finals (d. Stephens in F), after going 3-0 during round robin stage. Ended year ranked No.4

• Last year, also won titles at Rome (as defending champion, d. No.1 Halep in F), Dubai (as defend-ing champion, d. Kasatkina in F) and Brisbane (d. Sasnovich in F); career record in finals now stands at 13-2, including a current nine match win streak

• At the Slams in 2018, reached QF at Australian Open (l. Mertens), R16 at US Open (l. Sevastova), 3r appearance at Roland Garros (l. Buzarnescu) and suffered 1r upset at Wimbledon (l. Maria)

• Posted SF run at Montréal (as defending champion, l. Stephens) and made five further QFs

• Enjoyed stand-out 2017, finishing year at No.6, winning a tour-leading five titles and posting sec-ond-most wins (53, behind Wozniacki with 60)

• Season culminated by qualifying for WTA Finals in Singapore, becoming first Ukrainian woman to quali-fy for the season-ending tournament in singles (fell at round robin stage with 1-2 record)

• In 2017, became first player to win three Premier 5 ti-tles in a single season (Dubai, Rome, Toronto), since such tournaments were introduced in 2009

• One of five players to make Top 10 debut in 2017, after winning Dubai in February (also Ostapenko, Garcia, Mladenovic and Vandeweghe). Peaked in rankings at No.3 on September 11, 2017

• On four occasions could have reached World No.1 spot – at 2017 US Open, then needed to win 2017 Beijing (fell in QF), then needed to triumph at 2017 WTA Finals (failed to progress from group stage), or reach final at 2018 Australian Open (fell in QF)

• End to 2016 season also saw her reach first SF at Premier Mandatory level at Beijing (l. A.Radwanska) Qualified for 2016 WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai for the second time (l. Kvitova in F)

• Reached three finals in 2016, at Kuala Lumpur (d. Bouchard in F) and advancing to finals at New Haven (l. A.Radwanska) and Zhuhai (l. Kvitova)

• Other 2016 season highlights included SFs at Dubai, Tokyo [PPO] and Moscow, and QF at Rio Olympics

• Owns two career doubles titles: 2014 Istanbul (w/Doi) and 2015 Istanbul (w/Gavrilova)

• Made WTA main draw debut at 2012 Baku (lost in 1r but went on to win title there in both 2013 and 2014)

• Played first ITF Circuit events of career in 2008• Ukrainian Fed Cup Team, 2012-15, 2017

• 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

• In 2015, came within two wins of completing the cal-endar year Grand Slam, having won the Australian Open, Roland Garros and Wimbledon; l. Vinci in SF at US Open. Two women in Open Era had previously achieved the feat: Court (1970) and Graf (1988)

• Has twice been in possession of all four majors for a “Serena Slam” (2002 Roland Garros to 2003 Austra-lian 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)

GRAND SLAM CONT.

VSELINASVITOLINA

SERENAWILLIAMS

• Parents are Mykhaylo and Olena; brother is Yulian• Introduced to tennis at age 5 by family • Coached by Andrew Bettles• Has previously worked with Iain Hughes and Thierry

Ascione• Won the Jerry Diamond ACES Award in the 2018

WTA Awards, in recognition of promotion of women’s tennis to fans, media, and local communities by per-forming off-court promotional and charitable activities

• Launched the Elina Svitolina Foundation on March 18, 2019 with a mission to encourage children, through the sport of tennis, to learn the values of hard work, self-discipline and the importance of giv-ing 100 percent every day in life

PERSONAL CAREER MILESTONES• Returned to Top 20 in 2018 year-end rankings (at

No.16) despite playing only seven tournaments• Was R-Up at both Wimbledon (l. Kerber) and US

Open (l. Osaka) in 2018, and advanced to R16 at Roland Garros (withdrew prior to match against Sharapova w/right pectoral muscle tear)

• Made her return to tour as a mother at Indian Wells in March 2017, falling to sister V.Williams in 3r, hav-ing defeated Diyas and then Bertens in straight sets

• 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 – third-most behind Navratilova (20) and Evert (19) – including five as year-end No.1

• Won 23rd Grand Slam singles title at 2017 Australian Open (d. V.Williams in F)

• 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 24-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 17 career wins over (seven different) No.1 ranked players, second-most behind Navratilo-va (18)

• Among active players, owns the most titles on clay (13), hard (46) and grass (8)

• 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. Wil-liams); 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 Se-ries bonus); the largest payout in tennis – men’s or women’s

VSELINASVITOLINA

SERENAWILLIAMS

PERSONAL• Coached by father Richard Williams and mother Ora-

cene Price; coaching consultant is Patrick Mourato-glou; hitting partner is Jarmere Jenkins

• Gave birth to daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. on September 1, 2017

• Married Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian in Novem-ber 2017 in New Orleans

• Launched her own clothing line, ‘Serena’, in late 2018


[13] BELINDA BENCIC (SUI #12) vs. [15] BIANCA ANDREESCU (CAN #15)

Head to Head: 0-0

BELINDA BENCIC 12 7

10-03-1997 (22) $1,874,235 $5,607,368

1 / 3 0 / 2

41-15 / 140-102 16-7 / 52-31 10-2 / 35-24

2 / 2 0 / 0 5-0

32-4 / 35-9 14-3 / 15-6

5-4 / 7-4

WTA RANKING

PORSCHE RACE TO SHENZHEN LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE)

YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY

SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER)

US OPEN 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 TOP 10 W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD) *

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

12-4

29-4 / 31-7 23-6 / 88-67

10-5 / 28-36 9-5 / 22-19

4-2 / 14-9

10-3 / 11-3 7-0 / 7-0

6-0 / 6-0

BIANCA ANDREESCU 15 8

16-06-2000 (19) $2,201,985 $2,417,873

* Updated entering 2019 US Open SF

ROAD TO THE SEMIFINALS [13] BELINDA BENCIC (SUI #12) QF: d. [23] DONNA VEKIC (CRO #23) 7-6(5),6-3 (1h42) R16: d. [1] NAOMI OSAKA (JPN #1) 7-5,6-4 (1h27)

R32: d. [21] ANETT KONTAVEIT (EST #21) W/O (0h)

R64: d. ALIZÉ CORNET (FRA #64) 6-4,1-6,6-2 (2h8)

R128: d. MANDY MINELLA (LUX #142) 6-3,6-2 (1h8)

[15] BIANCA ANDREESCU (CAN #15) QF: d. [25] ELISE MERTENS (BEL #26) 3-6,6-2,6-3 (2h2) R16: d. TAYLOR TOWNSEND (USA #116) 6-1,4-6,6-2 (1h55) R32: d. [19] CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #19) 6-4,6-4 (1h33) R64: d. KIRSTEN FLIPKENS (BEL #110) 6-3,7-5 (1h24) R128: d. [WC] KATIE VOLYNETS (USA #413) 6-2,6-4 (1h29)

vs.



BELINDA BENCIC 2018 R1 L - ALIAKSANDRA SASNOVICH (BLR #33) 2-6 6-1 6-2

2016 R3 L - JOHANNA KONTA (GBR #14) 6-2 6-1

BIANCA ANDREESCU 2018 R1* 6-3 7-5 L - OLGA DANILOVIC (SRB #108)

2017 R1* 6-2 2-6 7-6(4) L - FANGZHOU LIU (CHN #162)

US OPEN Tournament History * Qualifying match



2015 R3 L - VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #23) 6-3 6-4

2014 QF L - SHUAI PENG (CHN #39) 6-2 6-1


VSBELINDABENCIC

BIANCAANDREESCU

US OPEN

• Contesting milestone 20th Grand Slam main draw at 2019 US Open

• Other than this year’s SF run, next best Grand Slam singles result was QF at 2014 US Open; defeated two Top 10 players en route (No.7 Kerber in 3r, No.10 Jankovic in R16)

• Best result at Australian Open came in 2016, when she advanced to R16 (l. Sharapova)

• At Wimbledon, also advanced to R16 in 2015 (l. Aza-renka) and 2018 (l. eventual champion Kerber)

• Best result at Roland Garros is 3r in 2019 (l. Vekic)

• Making fourth appearance at Flushing Meadows• Has produced best result here - and across all

majors - by reaching SF (also made QF on debut in 2014; d. No.7 Kerber and No.10 Jankovic, l. S.Peng)

• At 17 years of age, 2014’s run saw her become youngest player through to last eight at Flushing Meadows since 1997 when Hingis won the title

• Also advanced to 3r in 2015 (l. V.Williams) and 2016 (l. Konta)

• Contesting her 20th Grand Slam this fortnight, where she is seeded for a 10th time

• Defeated No.142 Minella in 1r on Tuesday before ousting Cornet in 2r in their first meeting in four years

• Win over Cornet marked her 16th three-set victory in 2019 - only Ka.Pliskova has won more (17)

• Advanced to R16 by walkover after Kontaveit with-drew due to viral illness

• Defeated World No.1 Osaka in R16 to reach QF for first time at a major since 2014 US Open

• Now owns 4-1 record over reigning No.1s - including the two victories over Osaka this year (Indian Wells R16 and Madrid QF), also beat S.Williams in 2015 Toronto semifinal and would go on to win second singles title of her career. Sole loss to No.1 came against S.Williams in 2014 Madrid 1r

• Dropped No.23 Vekic in QF to advance to maiden Grand Slam SF

• Overall Grand Slam win-loss record stands at 34-19• Sole Swiss woman to reach second week this fort-

night from four to have started in the main draw (also Bacsinszky, Golubic and Teichmann)

• Faces off against No.15 Andreescu in hopes of being second Swiss woman ever (Hingis) to reach GS Final

• Ranked No.12 heading into 2019 US Open; by con-trast, 12 months ago was No.38

• Owns 41-15 win-loss record in 2019 - the fifth-most wins on tour; by contrast won a total of 17 matches at this level across 2017 and 2018 seasons combined

• Has posted more victories over Top 5 (six) and Top 10 (nine) players than anyone else on Tour in 2019

• Highlights of last year’s summer hard court season, were QF runs at Washington, DC (l. Petkovic) and New Haven (as LL, l. eventual champion Sabalenka)

GRAND SLAM HISTORY

US OPEN• Making main draw debut at US Open (third overall)

where she has advanced to her maiden Grand Slam SF

• Previous best results at this level were 2r showings at 2019 Australian Open (l. Sevastova) and 2019 Roland Garros (w/o Kenin w/ right shoulder injury)

• Fell at first hurdle of qualifying at Flushing Meadows in 2017 (l. Liu) and 2018 (l. Danilovic)

• Entered fortnight as the World No.15 and high-est-ranked teenager on tour; by contrast, this time last year was No.208

• Saved four of five break points faced in straight set win over American wildcard Volynets in 1r

• Struck 27 winners - including six aces - to defeat Flipkens and advance to 3r at a Grand Slam for the first time in her career

• Recorded 10th Top 20 win of 2019 over No.19 Wozniacki in 3r (10-3 season record) - prior to this year, sole career Top 50 win was over No.13 Mlade-novic at 2017 Washington DC

• In R16, ended qualifier Townsend’s run in three sets prior to coming back after losing the first set against No.25 Mertens in QF - has now won her past 12 main draw matches to go the distance (14-3 record in 2019)

• Holds 29 wins on hard courts this season - the most on tour

• Is the first Canadian - in either the men’s and wom-en’s singles - to reach a US Open SF since Carling Bassett in 1984; additionally just the second to do so at US Open in Open Era

• Aiming to be second Canadian woman ever to reach Grand Slam final (Bouchard, 2014 Wimbledon)

• At 19-years-old, is the sole teenager to reach SF out of nine who started the draw

• First teenager to reach US Open SF since Wozniacki finished R-Up in 2009

• Takes on No.13 Bencic for a spot in first career Grand Slam final

• Entering the tournament, was one of the tours’ leading returners, ranking No.4 in return points won (47.2%) and No.5 in return games won (42.9%) - ad-ditionally is No.7 in break points saved (60.7%)

• Is 7-0 vs. Top 10 players in her career, all achieved in 2019 - defeated No.3 Wozniacki (Auckland), No.6 Svitolina and No.8 Kerber (both en route to Indian Wells title), No.4 Kerber (Miami) and No.5 Bertens, No.3 Ka.Pliskova and No.10 S.Williams via ret. (en route to Toronto title)

• Win over Bertens in Toronto was the single longest match on the WTA Tour this year at 3hrs 28min

VSBELINDABENCIC

BIANCAANDREESCU

SEASON• So far during this year’s US Open Series, made R16

run at Toronto (l. Svitolina) and fell 1r at Cincinnati (ret. vs. Azarenka w/left foot injury)

• Posted 3r showing at Wimbledon (l. Riske) after falling 2r at Eastbourne (l. Alexandrova)

• Was R-Up at Mallorca (l. Kenin after holding 3mp at 5-4 in second set); upset No.6 Kerber en route

• Clay season ended with 2r exit at Rome (l. Mlade-novic) and 3r showing at Roland Garros (l. Vekic)

• Posted SF run at Madrid (l. Halep); victory over Osaka in QF improved record over reigning No.1s to 4-1 (also S.Williams at 2015 Toronto and Osaka at 2019 Indian Wells and 2019 US Open, with only loss against S.Williams at 2014 Madrid)

• Posted 2r exit at Stuttgart (l. Bertens)• Fell in 1r at Lugano (l. Lottner) but reached SF in

doubles (w/Kuzmova, l. Kudermetova/Voskoboeva)• Advanced to QF stage at Charleston (l. Martic)• Made 2r exit at Miami (after 1r bye, l. Putintseva)• Reached SF at Indian Wells (d. No.1 Osaka, No.5

Ka.Pliskova, l. Kerber)• Loss to Kerber ended 12-match winning streak –

having won two Fed Cup singles rubbers (d. Errani, Giorgi), six wins en route to the Dubai title, four matches at Indian Wells

• Lifted third singles title of career at 2019 Dubai (d. Kvitova in F), her first since 2015 Toronto; defeated four Top 10 opponents en route to title, in succession No.8 Sabalenka (R16), No.3 Halep (QF), No.6 Svito-lina (SF) and No.4 Kvitova (F)

• Inspired Switzerland to 3-1 World Group II win over Italy in Biel (d. Giorgi and Errani)

• Fell in qualifying at St Petersburg• Reached SF at Hobart (l. Schmiedlova) and ad-

vanced to 3r at Australian Open (l. Kvitova)• Opened 2019 season at Hopman Cup, partnering

Roger Federer to help Switzerland retain the trophy

CAREER MILESTONES• Posted fourth Top 100 season finish in 2018, at

No.37; highlight was R-Up finish at Luxembourg (as qualifier, l. Goerges)

• Underwent left wrist surgery in spring 2017, missing five months – ranking fell outside Top 300

• Closed out 2017 season by winning 28 of 31 match-es and four titles, two on the ITF Circuit and two WTA 125K Series events at Hua Hin and Taipei. By the end of the year she was back in the Top 75

• Best wins of career came over No.1 S.Williams in SF at 2015 Toronto and No.1 Osaka in R16 at 2019 Indian Wells and QF at 2019 Madrid

• Won second title of the season at Toronto (d. S.Wil-liams in F; ret. w/ upper back injury); also beat No.5 Bertens and No.3 Ka.Pliskova en route, breaking into Top 20 at No.14 after the tournament (August 12)

• Win over Bertens in Toronto was the single longest match on the WTA Tour this year at 3hrs 28min

• Was the first home representative to lift the women’s singles title at Rogers Cup since 1969 (Urban d. Berner in all-Canadian final)

• Shoulder injury forced her to miss entire grass swing• Returned to action at Roland Garros, winning 1r

match against Bouzkova before withdrawing prior to 2r vs. Kenin w/right shoulder injury

• Retired from R16 match at Miami against Kontaveit w/right shoulder injury, which forced her to miss much of subsequent clay court season

• Won maiden career title at Indian Wells (d. No.6 Svitolina in SF and No.8 Kerber in F)

• Was fourth unseeded woman and first wildcard to lift the title at Indian Wells

• Increased career prize money fivefold thanks to Indian Wells success (total stood at USD $350,909 entering the tournament)

• Made SF at Acapulco (l. Kenin)• Won both singles rubbers (d. Rus and Hogenkamp)

as Canada beat Netherlands 4-0 in Fed Cup to set up a World Group play-off with 2018 champions Czech Republic in April

• Lifted title at WTA 125K Series event at Newport Beach (d. Pegula in F)

• Qualified for Australian Open, going on to reach 2r for first time at a major (d. Osuigwe, l. Sevastova)

• Began 2019 by finishing R-Up at Auckland as a qual-ifier (d. Wozniacki and V.Williams, l. Goerges)

GRAND SLAM HISTORY• Recorded best Grand Slam result by advancing to

SF this fortnight at 2019 US Open • Previous best results were 2r showings at 2019 Aus-

tralian Open (as qualifier, d. Osuigwe, l. Sevastova) and Roland Garros (d. Bouzkova, w/o Kenin w/right shoulder injury)

• Only other main draw major appearance came as a qualifier at 2017 Wimbledon (l. Kucova)

• Also fell in qualifying at 2017 Roland Garros, 2017 US Open, 2018 Australian Open, 2018 Roland Gar-ros, 2018 Wimbledon and 2018 US Open

SEASON

VSBELINDABENCIC

BIANCAANDREESCU

• Split from coach Vlado Platenik at the end of 2018; has worked extensively with Melanie Molitor and Martina Hingis, as well as her father, Ivan, in the past

• Fitness trainer is Martin Hromkovic, a former football player from Slovakia

• Also holds Slovak citizenship through her parents• Includes Nike, Yonex and Rolex among her sponsors

PERSONAL

CAREER CONT.• At 18 years of age in Toronto became youngest play-

er to defeat S.Williams in a completed match since 2004 WTA Finals, when 17-year-old Sharapova d. Serena in F (Serena also lost at 2007 Charleston to then 17-year-old Chan Yung-Jan via first set retire-ment at 5-3)

• Struggled with injury in 2016 – advanced to sixth ca-reer singles final at St Petersburg in February (as top seed for first time in career, l. Vinci) but after Charles-ton (April) was sidelined for more than two months – missed most of clay season, including Roland Garros

• Run to St Petersburg final saw her break into Top 10 (at No.9) for the first time in her career; became 116th player to break into the Top 10 since comput-erized rankings were introduced in 1975. In the last 20 years, 11 players have made their Top 10 debut before their 19th birthday

• Reached a career-high ranking of No.7 (February 22, 2016)

• Appeared in four finals in 2015, winning first two career titles at Premier-level Eastbourne (d. A.Rad-wanska in F) and Toronto (d. Halep in F via ret.)

• At 2015 Eastbourne, aged 18 years, 109 days, became second-youngest player to win a WTA Pre-mier-level final. Caroline Wozniacki won 2008 New Haven aged 18 years, 43 days

• With 2015 Toronto triumph, became first teenager to win an event at Premier 5 level or higher since Azarenka at 2009 Miami

• Victory at 2019 Dubai improved record in career finals to 3-6; R-Up finishes came at 2014 Tianjin, 2015 ‘s-Hertogenbosch, 2015 Tokyo [PPO], 2016 St Petersburg, 2018 Luxembourg and 2019 Mallorca

• Won second WTA doubles title of career in 2015 at Washington, DC (w/Mladenovic), the first coming earlier in the year at Prague (w/Siniakova)

• Voted 2014 WTA Newcomer of the Year after rising 179 spots in the rankings to finish season at No.33

• Played first WTA qualifying event at Luxembourg in October 2011, and first WTA main draw 12 months later at same event as WC (l. V.Williams, 1r); only 15 years, 7 months at the time

• Coached by Sylvain Bruneau• Born in Mississauga, Ontario, but moved to her

parents’ native country of Romania as a child and started playing tennis at age seven

• On her return to Canada, at 11 joined Tennis Cana-da’s U14 National Training Centre in Toronto for the 2011–2012 season

• Models her game on Simona Halep

• Finished 2018 ranked No.178, winning fourth and fifth career ITF Circuit titles at $25k ITF/Florence-SC, USA and $25k ITF/Norman-OK,USA

• Fell in qualifying at all four majors in 2018• Highlight of 2017 season was QF run at Washington

DC (l. Petkovic). As wildcard, defeated Giorgi and world No.13 Mladenovic in 2r to become first player born in 21st century to register a Top 20 win

• Also in 2017, made 2r at Quebec City and fell 1r at Wimbledon and Toronto

• Highlight of 2016 season was maiden ITF Circuit title at $25k ITF/Gatineau-CAN (d. Halbauer in F). Also won doubles at same tournament w/Robillard-Millette

• Career best wins occurred over No.3 Wozniacki at 2019 Auckland and No.3 Pliskova at 2019 Toronto

• Posted career-high ranking of No.14 on August 12, 2019

• Made professional debut by finishing R-Up at $25k ITF/Gatineau-CAN (l. Glatch in F)

• Owns five singles and three doubles titles on ITF Circuit

CAREER MILESTONES

PERSONAL

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