Pliskova Stuns Serena In IPTL

Pliskova Stuns Serena In IPTL

  • Posted: Dec 03, 2015

World No.1 Serena Williams made her 2015 debut in the International Premier Tennis League, but wasn’t able to turn the tide towards the Philippine Mavericks, who dropped a 26-24 decision to the OUE Singapore Slammers.

The Slammers won their first match of the season, led by Karolina Pliskova, who defeated Williams 6-4 in women’s singles, and Belinda Bencic, who partnered French Open men’s doubles champion Marcelo Melo to defeat Jarmila Gajdosova and Edouard Roger-Vasselin in mixed doubles by the same score.

Kristina Mladenovic and Ana Ivanovic kept up their 1-2 punch for the OBI UAE Royals, helping their team to a second straight victory, this time a 30-15 shutout of the Legendari Japan Warriors, which featured former No.1 Maria Sharapova.

Sharapova played both mixed doubles and women’s singles, suffering a 6-0 loss in the former to Mladenovic and Daniel Nestor – despite pairing former men’s doubles No.1 Leander Paes – and couldn’t get the best of Ivanovic, who won their match-up, 6-4.

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