Victoria Azarenka battled past Madison Keys 6-4, 6-7, 6-1 in Guadalajara on Thursday, ending the American’s hopes of reaching the WTA Finals and setting up a quarterfinal showdown with Coco Gauff, who rolled past Italian Martina Trevisan 6-0, 6-3. It will be the first meeting between the 33-year-old twice major winner Azarenka and the American 15 years her junior, after …
Victoria Azarenka moved into the quarterfinals of the Italian Open in Rome on Friday when her opponent Daria Kasatkina injured her ankle and retired, but not before the Belarusian comforted her and offered words of encouragement. With the match evenly poised at 6-6 in the opening set, Kasatkina rolled her right ankle while chasing a ball in the tiebreak, with …
