Daily Insider: Strike A Pose
Serena Williams photographed by Annie Liebovitz for Pirelli: Looking great, Serena.
WTA 125K Roundup: Yanina Wickmayer took home the title at the inaugural Carlsbad Classic over the weekend, beating Nicole Gibbs, 6-3, 7-6(4). Wickmayer’s win capped off the WTA 125K Series season, which also crowned Caroline Garcia (Limoges), Timea Babos (Taipei), Yaroslava Shvedova (Hua Hin), Zheng Saisai (Dalian), and Jelena Jankovic (Nanchang).
Nicole Gibbs’ sobering season summary: This is some real talk:
Sam Stosur calls for patience: The Australian No.1 hopes Australia’s lack of numbers in the Top 100 is just an issue of timing.
Sania Mirza’s Olympic prospects: The World No.1 isn’t thinking about India’s mixed doubles prospects quite yet.
Maria Sharapova snags an elusive table: Sharapova spent her Thanksgiving with a behind the scenes tour at NOMA, the famous avant garde restaurant in Copenhagen, Denmark. That’s a tough ticket.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL: Andrea Petkovic nails it during a German television appearance over the weekend:
Hitting the target like ⚽ pic.twitter.com/CYQGMZYCaP
— WTA Reactions (@WTAreactions) November 28, 2015