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The WTA Tour heads to Cincinnati, Ohio this week for the Western and Southern Open, a Premier Level tournament that is held outdoors on hard courts and features a purse of $2,050,000. It starts on August 15^th and has a singles main draw of 56 and a doubles draw of 28. This tournament will be followed by the New Haven Open at Yale, held in New Haven, Connecticut starting August 21^st. The most recent finished tournament was the Mercury Insurance Open, which started on August 1^st and was won by Agnieszka Radwanksa in the singles and Kveta Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik in the doubles.

 

 

The top seed for this tournament is going to be Caroline Wozniacki from Denmark while Kim Clijsters will take the spot of the second seed. Vera Zvonareva from Russia is the third seed and Victoria Azarenka will be fourth. Fifth and sixth seeds are Maria Sharapova and Na Li from China, and Petra Kvitova and Francesca Schiavone will be the seventh and eighth seeds. Sign up now to get access to live tennis online, right from your computer or mobile device. You can start watching tennis online instantly from ATP, WTA or ITF tournaments.

 

Posted: 12th August 2010

 

The Women's Tennis Association goes to Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States for their next tournament, which is going to be held August 9th through the 15th, This is a premier level event that is officially titled the Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open, and it will features a double draw of 28 and a singles draw of 56, one of the largest WTA Tournaments on the Tour. If you want to watch WTA Tennis streams then get your membership at the banners on this page for WTA tennis live right from your computer.

 

 

The tournament features a huge prize purse of $2,000,000 for these ladies, some of which are big stars in the world of women's tennis. It takes place on hard courts outdoors, and is part of the Olympus U.S Open Series, which also have events in Atlanta, Stanford, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Toronto, Montreal, New Haven and New York. This tournament is joined by the men, and last year the top seed for the tournament was Dinara Safina. It came down to a match between her and Flavia Pennetta and Safina came out on top to win the 2009 title.

 

 

This year, here are some of the players that you'll see on the courts for this tournament. Safina will not be defending her title so the top seed this year is Jelena Jankovic from Serbia. Second is Alexandra Dulgheru and third is Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki. We also have Samantha Stosur, Alona Bondarenko, Elena Dementieva and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova from Russia. Also, last year's runner-up, Flavia Pennetta will be playing. You can watch WTA Tennis online right here, by getting your membership at the links. You'll get access to high quality video from the courts.

 

Posted: 7th August 2009

 

August 10^th starts a big tournament for the ladies of the WTA. It's the Western and Southern Financial Group Women's Open, with a big purse of $2,000,000 on hard outdoor courts. The singles draw is 56 and the doubles is 28. The tournament is in Cincinnati, Ohio and will be from August 10^th through the 16^th. Last year's tournament ended August 17^th, 2008, and the final was between Russia's Nadia Petrova and France's Nathalie Dechy. That ended with Petrova beating Dechy in two sets, 6-2, 6-1. In the last game of the doubles, Maria Kirilenko and compatriot Nadia Petrova defeated Su-Wei Hsieh and Yaraslova Shvedova 6-3, 4-6, 10-8.

 

 

This tournament is part of the Olympus U.S. Open Series, which includes the LA Tennis Open, The Indianapolis Tennis Championships in July, The Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington, DC, the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, played this month, Rogers Masters and Rogers Cup, Pilot Pen Tennis, as well as this tournament and the U.S. Open which will be held August 31^st. This tournament not only includes the Western and Southern Financial Group Women's Open, but also the Western and Southern Financial Group Masters, for the men.

 

 

Commitments to play this year make the women's field the strongest in a very long time, but the men's is looking good too. Eighteen of the world's top 20 tennis players will be playing, with Dinara Safina and Serena Williams headlining. Sister Venus will also be competing and Svetlanda Kuznetsova, Elena Dementieva and Kim Clijsters as well. For the men, Roger Federer will compete, Nadal, Andy Roddick and Andy Murray as well as 2008 finalist Novak Djokovik. Don't miss this exciting event. Get your membership at the banners on this page to watch this tournament in high quality video streams. It all happens August 10^th through the 16^th.

 

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