Daily Insider: Super Serena

Daily Insider: Super Serena

  • Posted: Dec 08, 2015

– Serena the Superhero: espnW and Marvel Comics collaborated on this project to turn 25 women into superheroes. Serena Williams is included as Super Galactic Slam.

– Han Xiyun wins the Australian Open wildcard: Han defeated Wang Yafan 6-1, 6-0, on Sunday to win the Asia-Pacific wildcard playoff, earning a main draw wildcard at the Australian Open in January.

– Drama defined the 2015 WTA Season: Christopher Clarey for The New York Times takes a closer look at how the 2015 season played out for the women.

“I just thought it was a really good year for women’s tennis,” said Pam Shriver, a former star who is now an ESPN analyst. “A lot of it had to do with Serena, but there were also some other really interesting runs. In a lot of the big events, I thought the women matched the men’s story lines or even bettered them for the first time in many years.”

– Caroline Wozniacki goes Ballin’: First Eugenie Bouchard, now Caroline Wozniacki. Ballers is really picking up the tennis cameos:

– The evolution of on-court coaching: Pat Cash talks to Darren Cahill (Simona Halep), Sam Sumyk (Garbiñe Muguruza) and Rob Steckley (Lucie Safarova) about on-court coaching and how its best optimized for the players.

– Cross-training with Kvitova: Petra Kvitova is doing a little bit of everything to get ready for the 2016 season:

– Calling all Arrested Development fans: Will Arnett will team up with Maria Sharapova at the Maria Sharapova and Friends event this weekend.

– Get them shiny, Nick Kyrgios: Belinda Bencic gets the treatment before a recent IPTL match for the Singapore Slammers.

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