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The WTA green-clay accident kicked off April 1 with condoning spherical

The higher WTA-only conflict of the division bliss off with main-draw exercise on Monday in Charleston.

The Volvo Open, performed on blooming clay, is adulatory it is forty fifth anniversary.

“When you attending on the historical past of the tour, the bout goes aback 45 years as properly. So it runs duke in duke with the advance of the tour,” conflict administrator Bob Moran mentioned about his occasion. “We have been one of many aboriginal contest to be nationally televised and to motion $1 actor in award-winning cash.”

The acreage this yr look Madison Keys, Venus Williams, Johanna Konta, Elena Vesnina, Caroline Wozniacki and abounding extra.

Sloane Stephens received the appellation in Charleston aftermost yr, and admitting she’s nonetheless injured, she’ll acknowledgment this week—on the sidelines for Tennis Channel.