New York (AFP)
Belgian Kim Clijsters confirmed her form at the time by winning her fourth straight singles victory on Friday at World Team Tennis, a team tournament held in White Sulfur Springs (West Virginia).
The former world number 1, who returns to competition in 2020 after a seven-year absence, won 5 games to 2 against the American Sloane Stephens, winner of the US Open in 2017.
In the other games involving headliners, Sofia Kenin, winner of the 2020 Australian Open, dominated Bernarda Pera 5 games to 0. Venus Williams, alongside Marcelo Arevalo, won 5 games to 4 in mixed doubles against the pair composed of Taylor Townsend and the French Fabrice Martin. Otherwise,
The WTT, which involves nine teams each representing a city, is the first professional tennis competition organized since the suspension of the WTA female and male ATP circuits last March, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
In this competition, which takes place until August 2, each game is played in the best of five games, with a total of five games played between two teams (two singles, male and female, and three doubles, male, female and mixed ). The team with the most games wins the match.
The WTA Tour resumes with the Palermo Open, in Italy, on August 3.
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