Cincinnati

There was a lot of hype and expectation leading up to Serena Williams' first match at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati.

If I were a guy, I wouldn’t be writing this because I’d be out there playing and winning while my wife was doing the physical labor of expanding our family.” “I think she expects herself to still play like she did. And yeah, it was a true honor to share the court with her.” I’m just so pleased that I was able to keep my composure.” John McEnroe and Rafael Nadal have already paid tribute to Williams, “The atmosphere tonight was amazing,” Raducanu said. “I don’t think it’s fair. “To be honest, I was nervous from the first point to the last point because I know what a champion she is. [she announced her impending retirement](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamzagoria/2022/08/09/serena-williams-announces-her-upcoming-retirement-from-tennis/) last week, fans had been looking forward to a first-round matchup between Williams and defending U.S. 402 in the world. When the match finally came, the 19-year-old Raducanu was the better, quicker and stronger player, dispatching the 23-time Grand Slam champion, 6-4, 6-0 in 65 minutes in their first meeting. “I’m so grateful for the experience of being able to play her and for our careers to have crossed over and everything that she has achieved is so inspirational.

Emma Raducanu beat Williams in straight sets in the first round at the Western and Southern Open. Williams's next tournament, and quite possibly her last, ...

Raducanu, and Williams took the court after warming up in front of a large and supportive crowd earlier in the day on Court 16, with fans peering down from nearby show courts for a chance to catch a glimpse of Williams in person, perhaps for the last time. It was another poignant day for the Williams sisters and another short stay at a tournament where they used to settle in for longer. Coco Gauff, the 18-year-old American who reached the French Open final earlier this year, rolled an ankle late in the first set of her opening-round match with Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic and retired trailing, 5-7, 0-1. And though Williams had long feasted on second serves like Raducanu’s, the 19-year-old British star won 75 percent of the points on her second serve as Williams struggled to find her timing and sometimes her footing. Open champion, made frightfully quick work of Williams with a victory, 6-4, 6-0, on Tuesday night, the sold-out center court at the Western and Southern Open was often as quiet as a practice court as the nearly 12,000 fans on hand rarely had the chance to cheer the icon they had come to honor. — all for it,” Raducanu said to the crowd. Open but like so many of her generation, Raducanu grew up with Williams dominating the landscape. She has struggled to follow up on that bravura performance, failing to reach a final in any other tour event. Everything she has achieved is so inspirational, and yeah, it was a true honor to share this court with her.” “I’m so grateful for the experience to be able to play her and for our careers to cross over. Stories like this are possible because of our deep commitment to original reporting, produced by a global staff of over 1,700 journalists who have all dedicated themselves to helping you understand the world. Williams’s next tournament, and quite possibly her last, will be the U.S.

In what proved to be her final tune-up match before the U.S. Open, Serena Williams lost in straight sets on Tuesday night to Emma Raducanu in the first ...

She is a six-time champion at the event, and reached the semifinals in her last appearance in 2020. "I think that the crowd was pretty electric," Raducanu said in her postmatch news conference. In addition to her family, including four-year-old daughter Olympia, in the crowd, four-time major champion A microphone that had been set up on the opposite side of the net from Raducanu's interview was then removed from the court. It was a true honor to share the court with her." "We all should honor Serena and her amazing career," said Raducanu, the 2021 US Open champion.

The Jacksons – consisting of original members Jermaine Jackson, Tito Jackson, Jackie Jackson and Marlon Jackson – bring their famous dance moves and mega-hits ...

With Giovannie & the Hired Guns. 30: WEBN Night of the Rocking Dead: Rival Sons, Bogart's. Oct. Four-night art and music experience Blink returns to Cincinnati in October, and in conjunction with it is the UnderWorld Black Arts Festival, featuring Jarobi White, founding member of legendary hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest. With Jarobi is special guest Vince Fraser "The Artivist," who brings his AfroFuturist projections from London, England. Brady Music Center, and Robert Fripp, founding member of British prog rock band King Crimson, comes to the Madison Theater along with his manager and producer David Singleton. Jarobi famously disappeared from the band a few years back to pursue a career in cooking, which led him to work in some of the finest kitchens in New York City. The Jacksons – consisting of original members Jermaine Jackson, Tito Jackson, Jackie Jackson and Marlon Jackson – bring their famous dance moves and mega-hits to the Hard Rock Casino Ballroom in November. Eight-time Grammy Award-winning guitarist and double Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Jeff Beck will play Andrew J. One of the most recognizable families in music history embarks on a tour this year, and luckily for us, Cincinnati is one of the cities they'll be playing. Fripp and Singleton's tour is a "speaking tour," where the pair will field questions from the audience. The Motown super group and Rock & Roll Hall of Famers have five No.

A first-round loss against Emma Raducanu only gives Serena more time to heal up—and to fine-tune her game in time for the U.S. Open.

She’s been on a farewell tour, if an abbreviated one (before Cincinnati, she won her first-round match in Toronto before going out in the second), and seems to be nursing a sore leg; had she kept winning, she would have had to play again on every single day of the tournament. But while the first set of this first match between the two was mostly competitive, with Serena leaning into her booming serve and punishing groundstrokes, the second set was all Raducanu, who committed exactly zero unforced errors in that set (and only one in the first). [Serena](https://www.vogue.com/article/serena-williams-retirement-in-her-own-words), a global sports legend and 23 times a Grand Slam champion; on the other Raducanu, a virtual unknown before storming through both the qualifying rounds and the main draw to take home the trophy at last year’s U.S.

Mika Adams-Woods is a Bishop Ludden product who has been playing college ball at Cincinnati.

Throughout my years being a point guard at Ludden and New Hampton, I think it’s really prepared me being at Cincinnati," Adams-Woods said. It’s been a good transition for me, because I always had that aspect, and it helped me at the next level," Adams-Woods said. It’s a great feeling," Adams-Woods said.

Serena Williams bowed out of the WTA/ATP Cincinnati Masters at the first hurdle on Tuesday, losing in straight sets to US Open champion Emma Raducanu as the ...

"Serena is dangerous and can come back from any situation. "I was nervous from the first point to the last," Raducanu said. Raducanu broke Williams at the start of both sets to claim victory in what was her first and likely last meeting with the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion.