American Serena Williams dominated Swiss world number 12 Belinda Bencic in the second round of the National Bank Open in Toronto, 6-2, 6-4, on Wednesday. This may be his last lap on Canadian soil.
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The 40-year-old Canadian champion has announced that she will soon be retiring from competition. The former world number one has not folded her back before the semi-finals in Toronto since 2005. She has reached the semi-finals or better in her last six appearances.
“I love you,” she said to the cheering crowd. I’m not very good at saying goodbye, as I said in the article, but…goodbye. Good-bye!”
Williams won her first match of the year on Monday, six weeks after her failed return to Wimbledon, and is set to take place next week in Cincinnati ahead of the US Open at the end of the month, which she has won six times and appears to be. The place to say goodbye.
Last summer’s Olympic champion, Bencic makes her third appearance in Toronto.
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