Charleston predictions for 2018 – players and news: The Charleston Volvo Car Open, the only WTA tournament on green dross, basically basalt dust from the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, has started matches on the main picture today.
WTA Charleston Open
Women’s Family Circle Cup tournament in Charleston (USA) has been held since 2001, has been a Premier category since 2009. Previously, the tournament was held in Hilton Head Island since 1973. The prize fund of the tournament is 795 thousand US dollars. 56 tennis players take part in the competition.
If you take the period when the competitions were held from 2001 to 2013, the greatest success was achieved by Serena Williams, who won three times the competition, once again an American took part in the final. In 2003, she lost to Belgian Justine Henin in two sets. Henin won the tournament twice. In 2005 she defeated Elena Dementieva 7-5, 6-4.
The winners of the tournament were:
- Jennifer Capriati
- Yves Maioli
- Venus Williams
- Nadia Petrova
- Elena Jankovic
- Sabina Lisicki
- Samantha Stosur
- Caroline Wozniacki
Among Russian tennis players, Dinara Safina, Vera Zvonareva (2 times), Elena Vesnina took part in the final. The only victory of Nadezhda Petrova took place in 2006 over Petty Schnyder 6-3, 4-6, 6-1. The most persistent duel is the match between Serena Williams and Vera Zvonareva. Then Serena beat the Russian in three sets. In 2013, Serena Williams defeated Elena Jankovic 3-6, 6-0, 6-2.
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