Stanford's Taube Family Tennis Center hosted the Bank of the West Classic, a WTA tournament. It featured six of the top ten ranked players in the world and numerous other notables, such as Maria Sharapova returning from an injury. I took a few pictures before and during a first round evening session that matched up Serena Williams (#2) against Na Li (#17) and a qualifier, Melanie Oudin (#70), against a Stanford junior, Hilary Barte. The first match was quite competitive and Serena Williams prevailed in a second set tiebreak after a hard hitting contest.
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| Maria Sharapova | Maria Sharapova | Ping and Albert | |||
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| Canon versus Nikon | Na Li | ||||
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| Future #1 player? | |||||
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| Ping and Paolo | Hilary Barte | Melanie Oudin | |||
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