Tennis News: Serena Williams and Emma Raducanu were chosen to compete against one another in the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, where Emma Raducanu will meet Serena for the first time in her career.
Williams, who will turn 41 next month, said last week that she was “moving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me,” and that she was planning to retire shortly.
After the 2019 US Open, where Britain’s Raducanu will defend the championship she won as an unseeded 18-year-old a year ago, the 23-time Grand Slam champion may retire from the sport.
Prior to that, on Monday in Cincinnati, the two will square off for the first time. The winner advances to the second round, where she will face either Victoria Azarenka or Kaia Kanepi.
Williams, who was still a kid when she won the first of her six championships at Flushing Meadows in 1999, shed a few tears after losing to Belinda Bencic in the second round of the National Bank Open in Toronto on Wednesday, lamenting that she “is bad at goodbyes.”
Rafael Nadal is making his court debut at the men’s Cincinnati event for the first time since he withdrew from the Wimbledon semi-finals in July due to an abdominal rupture.
The British No. 1 Cameron Norrie, who is seeded ninth, will play Denmark’s Holger Rune in the first round while the Spaniard has been awarded a bye to the second round.
Andy Murray advances to the main draw when Pablo Carreno Busta defeated Jack Draper in the National Bank Open quarterfinals in Montreal, while Dan Evans takes on Serbia’s Filip Krajinovic at the same stage.
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