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Serena Williams came back from a set down to blast Flavia Pennetta

Reports indicated that McIlroy broke up with Wozniacki over the phone and that when he first started to tell her, she thought it was a joke. “You don’t want to see her in your draw”.

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“It’s definitely been a tough time”, Bouchard said Friday. “Hopefully, people will be cheering me on to, like, push me over the edge, give me that extra strength I need to go for this historic moment”.

As the partisan crowd cheered Bouchard’s every move, it looked like she had nothing in the tank when she was blanked in the first set.

Serena Williams hits a return to Flavia Pennetta, of Italy, during second round play at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament in Toronto, Tuesday, August 11, 2015.

“It was tough holding serve today for me”, said world number one Williams, adding that she could not recall a match where she had been broken four times in a single set.

“It was a big fight”, Bencic said immediately after the match.

“That was my first real love but then I was like, Listen”. “She’s actually a really great player”.

On being diagnosed with mono last month: “My doctor said I have permission to play”.

The 33-year-old American dominates tennis like few ever have and is on the brink of completing one of her sport’s rarest feats – a calendar year grand slam. “So I’m pleased with my performance”. “So I’m proud of that”. In the meantime, she’s focused on staying undefeated and healthy between now and the Rogers Cup final on Sunday. “I just felt like I had to make a change”. I’m never too comfortable because that’s when I think you’re susceptible to losing. In an interview with New York Magazine several years ago, Williams confessed that she hadn’t even gotten around to furnishing it yet.

Richmond Hill’s Carol Zhao played American Madison Brengle in the afternoon, while Montreal’s Francoise Abanda will play 16th-seeded Andrea Petkovic of Germany after Bouchard’s match. It was good to have this long match and get ready for the rest of this week, ‘ Williams said.

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