May I have the honour to write something about this tournament - Carolines second homeground
Tournament Info
Tier: Premier, Prize Money: $710,000.00, Surface: Hard, Director: Anne Worcester
After being held in various cities since its inception in 1988, what is now known as the Connecticut Open presented by United Technologies settled in its current home of the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale in 1998. The event is the last WTA stop on the Emirates Airline US Open Series leading up to the year's final Grand Slam.
With her triumph in 2011, Caroline Wozniacki became the first player to win the same tournament four consecutive years since 2002. That also happened to be in New Haven, with Venus Williams victorious from 1999 to 2002. Other winners include another four-time champion, Steffi Graf, as well as Jennifer Capriati, Lindsay Davenport, Justine Henin, Martina Navratilova, Monica Seles and Petra Kvitova.
The tournament starts today with the qualification matches and the main draw begind Sunday.
Here is a picture of the main stadium:
An impressive players acceptance list:
Simona Halep No. 3 Romania - has withdrawn
Kvitova,_Petra No. 4 Czech Republic
Wozniacki,_Caroline No. 5 Denmark
Safarova Lucie Safarova* No. 6 Czech Republic
Pliskova Karolina Pliskova No. 12 Czech Republic
Bacsinszky ,Timea No. 14 Switzerland
Radwanska,Agnieszka No. 15 Poland
Svitolina, Elina No. 17 Ukraine
Keys, Madison No. 18 United States
Errani, Sara No. 20 Italy
Bencic, Belinda No. 21 Switzerland - has withdrawn
Bouchard, Eugenie No. 26 Canada
Pannetta, Flavia No. 27 Italy
Cornet, Alize No. 28 France
Begu, Irina-Camelia No. 30 Romania
Giorgi, Camila No. 31 Italy
Vandeweghe, CoCo No. 32 United States
Diyas, Zarina No. 33 Kazakhstan
Mladenovic, Kristina No. 35 France
Garcia, Caroline No. 36 France
Riske, Alison 51 United States
Cibulkova, Dominika No. 56 Slovakia
Tournament Info
Tier: Premier, Prize Money: $710,000.00, Surface: Hard, Director: Anne Worcester
After being held in various cities since its inception in 1988, what is now known as the Connecticut Open presented by United Technologies settled in its current home of the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale in 1998. The event is the last WTA stop on the Emirates Airline US Open Series leading up to the year's final Grand Slam.
With her triumph in 2011, Caroline Wozniacki became the first player to win the same tournament four consecutive years since 2002. That also happened to be in New Haven, with Venus Williams victorious from 1999 to 2002. Other winners include another four-time champion, Steffi Graf, as well as Jennifer Capriati, Lindsay Davenport, Justine Henin, Martina Navratilova, Monica Seles and Petra Kvitova.
The tournament starts today with the qualification matches and the main draw begind Sunday.
Here is a picture of the main stadium:
An impressive players acceptance list:
Simona Halep No. 3 Romania - has withdrawn
Kvitova,_Petra No. 4 Czech Republic
Wozniacki,_Caroline No. 5 Denmark
Safarova Lucie Safarova* No. 6 Czech Republic
Pliskova Karolina Pliskova No. 12 Czech Republic
Bacsinszky ,Timea No. 14 Switzerland
Radwanska,Agnieszka No. 15 Poland
Svitolina, Elina No. 17 Ukraine
Keys, Madison No. 18 United States
Errani, Sara No. 20 Italy
Bencic, Belinda No. 21 Switzerland - has withdrawn
Bouchard, Eugenie No. 26 Canada
Pannetta, Flavia No. 27 Italy
Cornet, Alize No. 28 France
Begu, Irina-Camelia No. 30 Romania
Giorgi, Camila No. 31 Italy
Vandeweghe, CoCo No. 32 United States
Diyas, Zarina No. 33 Kazakhstan
Mladenovic, Kristina No. 35 France
Garcia, Caroline No. 36 France
Riske, Alison 51 United States
Cibulkova, Dominika No. 56 Slovakia
