STUTTGART - GERMANY Apr 23 - Apr 29, 2018 $816,000 PREMIER

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1 MATCH NOTES STUTTGART - GERMANY Apr 23 - Apr 29, 2018 $816,000 PREMIER DARIA KASATKINA (RUS #14) vs. MAGDALENA RYBARIKOVA (SVK #18) Head to Head: First meeting DARIA KASATKINA (20) $1,196,990 $3,492,643 0 / 1 0 / / / / / WTA RANKING PORSCHE RACE TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) STUTTGART W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER CLAY W-L (MD) * MAGDALENA RYBARIKOVA (29) $262,392 $4,427,694 0 / 4 0 / / / / / / 6-4 YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * 1-0 / / 6-8 YTD / CAREER TOP 5 W-L (MD & Q) * 0-1 / / YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD & Q) * 0-1 / / YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD & Q) * 0-1 / * Updated entering 2018 Stuttgart 1r Rnd Result Duration Rnd Result Duration STUTTGART Tournament History DARIA KASATKINA 2017 R1 L - ELENA VESNINA (RUS #14) 7-6(2) 6-2 MAGDALENA RYBARIKOVA 2009 R1 L - GISELA DULKO (ARG #34) Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

2 KASATKINA: Stuttgart Making second appearance at Porsche Tennis Grand Prix; fell 1r on debut in 2017 (l. Vesnina) Faces Slovak No.1 Rybarikova today; has won all five career matches against Slovak players, most recently defeating Kuzmova at 2018 St. Petersburg Owns 18 career wins against Top 20 players. Seven of these have come in 2018: No.1 Wozniacki (St. Petersburg), No.12 Konta and No.3 Muguruza (both at Dubai), No.13 Stephens, No.2 Wozniacki, No,10 Kerber and No.8 V.Williams (all at Indian Wells) Contesting this week of 2018 Stuttgart at No.14 three spots off career-best of No.11 (March 19, 2018) and as the Russian No.1 Not including qualifiers, is one of three Russians in main draw (also Pavlyuchenkova and Sharapova). Three Russians have lifted the title here: Petrova (2006), Kuznetsova (2009) and Sharapova ( ) Season Coming off QF exit as defending champion at Charleston (l. eventual R-Up Goerges). Has now appeared in four QFs in By contrast, reached a total of five QFs in all of 2017 season Made 2r exit at Miami (after 1r bye, l. Kenin in 3s) Reached back-to-back finals at Dubai (l. Svitolina) and Indian Wells (l. Osaka). Is now 1-3 in WTA singles finals, all coming at Premier-level or above Notched her fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Top 20 wins of the season at Indian Wells (7-2 overall in 2018) over No.13 Stephens, No.2 Wozniacki, No.10 Kerber and No.8 V.Williams (also No.1 Wozniacki at St. Petersburg, and No.12 Konta and No.3 Muguruza at Dubai) Victory over Wozniacki was her fifth over a Top 2 ranked player. Only three other active players registered more wins over Top 2 players before their 21st birthday: NO. OF WINS PLAYER 18 Serena Williams 14 Venus Williams 7 Maria Sharapova 5 Daria Kasatkina Now owns wins over all four reigning Grand Slam champions in past year: d. Roland Garros champion Ostapenko at 2017 US Open, Australian Open champion Wozniacki at 2018 St Petersburg and Indian Wells, Wimbledon champion Muguruza at 2018 Dubai, and US Open champion Stephens at 2018 Indian Wells Retired in Doha 1r vs. Bellis (w/neck injury) Made SF at St. Petersburg (l. eventual R-Up Mladenovic); defeated No.1 Wozniacki in QF in straight sets to score second career win over a reigning World No.1, the other coming over Kerber at 2017 Sydney One of five players in WTA history to have multiple wins over World No.1s before their 21st birthday, others being: V.Williams (9), S. Williams (8), Sharapova (4) and Kuznetsova (2)

3 Reached 2r at Australian Open (l. Linette) Began 2018 season with back-to-back 1r exits at Brisbane (l. Kanepi) and Sydney (l. Strycova) Since start of 2017 record vs. Top 5 stands at 6-4, with wins over No.1 Kerber (2017 Sydney), No.2 Kerber (2017 Doha) No.2 Halep (2017 Wuhan), No.1 Wozniacki (2018 St Petersburg), No.3 Muguruza (2018 Dubai) and No.2 Wozniacki (2018 Indian Wells) Career Ended 2017 at career-best No.24, up from No.27 in season was highlighted by capturing first WTA singles title in debut final at Charleston, defeating fellow teenager Ostapenko in final the first all-teenage final on tour since 2009 Linz (Wickmayer d. Kvitova) Reached second tour-level final at Moscow in 2017 (l. Goerges in F). Also finished R-Up in two WTA doubles finals in 2017 at Tokyo [PPO] and Moscow (both w/gavrilova) 2016 highlights included reaching second WTA SF at St Petersburg (l. eventual R-Up Bencic) and QF stage at Indian Wells (l. Ka.Pliskova), Charleston (l. eventual champion Stephens having held mps), Montréal (l. Kerber), Rio Olympics (l. Keys) and Moscow (l. Goerges) Reached first WTA SF at 2015 Moscow (l. Pavlyuchenkova, having recorded first Top 20 win over No.14 Suárez Navarro in QF) QF run at 2015 Bad Gastein (as qualifier) was first time reaching last eight at WTA-level tournament Lifted maiden WTA doubles title at 2015 Moscow (w/vesnina) Won five singles titles on ITF Circuit in 2015, taking total to seven Made WTA qualifying debut at 2013 Moscow; made main draw debut as WC also at Moscow in 2014 (l. Riske 1r) Grand Slam History 2018 Australian Open marked 10th main draw appearance at a Grand Slam Achieved her best result at the majors at the US Open by making R16 in 2017 (l. Kanepi) Reached 3r on her main draw debuts at all of the majors 2015 US Open (l. Mladenovic), 2016 Australian Open (l. eventual champion S.Williams), 2016 Roland Garros (l. Bertens) and 2016 Wimbledon (l. V.Williams) In Juniors, lifted the 2014 Roland Garros singles trophy Other Information Born and resides in Togliatty, Russia. Mother is Tatiana Timkovskaya and father is Sergey Kasatkin Began playing tennis at age six when older brother, Alexsandr Timkovskii, introduced her to the game; he is now her fitness trainer and travels with her Currently attending Sport College in Samara, Russia; three years into a five-year degree Loves football; favorite team is Barcelona FC Philippe Dehaes is new coach, formerly coached by Vladimir Platenik since October 2014

4 RYBARIKOVA: Stuttgart Making second Stuttgart appearance; fell 1r on debut in 2009 (l. Dulko in straight sets) Faces No.14 Kasatkina today; owns 21 wins over Top 20 players, most recently against No.10 Mladenovic at 2017 Zhuhai Owns 1-1 record against Russians in 2018: d. Kalinskaya (Fed Cup), l. Zhuk (Indian Wells) Ranked No.18 entering tournament; by contrast, this time last year was ranked No.384 Last year, only clay court matches came during 2r showing at Roland Garros (d. No.20 Vandeweghe, l. Duque-Mariño) Season Coming off QF run at Monterrey (l. Vickery) Suffered opening match defeats at Indian Wells (after 1r bye, l. Zhuk) and Miami (after 1r bye, l. Niculescu) Made 2r at Doha (ret. vs. Niculescu w/left hip injury) Helped Slovakia record its first victory over Russia in Fed Cup winning 3-1 in their World Group II first round tie in Bratislava (d. Kalinskaya in only rubber contested) Produced career-best R16 showing at Australian Open (l. eventual champion Wozniacki), surpassing three 2r efforts ( ). Seeded (No.19) at a Grand Slam for just the second time in career; was No.31 seed at 2017 US Open Opened 2018 season with 1r exit at Sydney (l. Bellis) Career Posted first Top 20 season in 2017, at No.20, up from No.156 at end of Has registered eight Top 100 seasons On October 23, 2017 overtook Cibulkova as the Slovak No.1 Was seeded No.1 at a WTA tournament for the first time, at 2017 Linz (l. Strycova in F) Qualified for WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai in 2017, going 1-1 in group stage Finished with 18-1 record on grass in 2017; in addition to SF at Wimbledon, clinched two ITF singles titles at $100k ITF/Surbiton-GBR (d. Watson in F) and $100k ITF/Ilkley-GBR (d. Van Uytvanck in F), and made SF run at Nottingham (l. eventual R-Up Konta) Has won four career singles titles: 2009 Birmingham (d. Li Na in F), 2011 Memphis (d. Marino in F via ret.), 2012 Washington, DC (d. Pavlyuchenkova) and 2013 Washington, DC (d. Petkovic in F); also a three-time runner-up, at 2011 Guangzhou (l. Scheepers), 2014 New Haven (l. Kvitova) and 2017 Linz (l. Strycova in F) Prior to Roland Garros, played exclusively on ITF Circuit in 2017, clinching back-to-back titles at $80k ITF/Gifu-JPN (d. Zhu in F) and $60k ITF/Fukuoka-JPN (d. Jang in F) In March 2017, ranking fell as low as No.453 before reaching SF at $25k ITF/Istanbul 2-TUR (l. Tomova) Missed second half of 2016 due to wrist and knee surgery. Left wrist injury was a long-standing problem; hyperextended knee during match at $100k ITF/Trnava-SVK in May 2016

5 2016 campaign was highlighted by reaching QF at Indian Wells (l. eventual champion Azarenka) marked best result at WTA Premier Mandatory level Wins at Indian Wells were first back-to-back WTA main draw victories since July 2015 (at Istanbul) and first time winning four matches in a row since reaching 2014 New Haven final (l. Kvitova) Owns 8-24 lifetime record vs. Top 10 opponents, with wins over No.9 Kerber (2013 Washington), No.8 Bartoli (2013 Toronto), No.2 Halep (2014 New Haven), No.8 Makarova (2015 Wimbledon), No.8 Bencic (2016 Indian Wells), No.10 Vinci (2016 Indian Wells), No.2 Ka.Pliskova (2017 Wimbledon) and No.10 Mladenovic (2017 Zhuhai) Owns one WTA doubles title 2012 Budapest (w/husarova); achieved a career-high doubles ranking of No.50 (6 June, 2011) Slovak Fed Cup Team, , 2018 Made WTA main draw debut as a WC at 2006 Prague Owns nine singles titles and one doubles title on ITF Circuit Grand Slam History 2018 Australian Open marked 38th main draw appearance at a Grand Slam In 2017, became first Slovak woman to reach SF at Wimbledon; previous best results were QF runs by Cibulkova (2011, 2016) and Hantuchova (2002) Became the 24th unseeded player to advance to a Grand Slam semifinal since 2001 Wimbledon (first Grand Slam with 32 seeds), and the sixth at Wimbledon, after Zheng Jie (2008) Petra Kvitova (2010), Tsvetana Pironkova (2010), Sabine Lisicki (2011) and Elena Vesnina (2016) Best Australian Open showing was 2018 s R16 run (l. eventual champion Wozniacki) Produced career-best R16 showing at 2018 Australian Open (l. eventual champion Wozniacki), surpassing three 2r efforts ( ). Was seeded (No.19) at a Grand Slam for just the second time in career at Melbourne Park (also No.31 seed at 2017 US Open) Prior to 2017 Wimbledon, had never been beyond 3r at any major In addition to reaching 3r at All England Club in 2015, has also reached that stage at US Open in 2008, 2009 and 2017 Yet to pass 2r at Roland Garros, most recently falling at this hurdle in 2017 Other Information Born in Piestany, Slovakia and began playing tennis at age 8; moved to Bratislava at 15 to train at national tennis center Coached by Peter Huber Admires Roger Federer and Martina Hingis Lucky charm is a toy duck

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CONNECTICUT OPEN FINAL MATCH NOTES: CONNECTICUT OPEN PRESENTED BY UNITED TECHNOLOGIES NEW HAVEN, CT, USA AUGUST 20-26, 2017 USD $776,000 PREMIER WTA Website: www.wtatennis.com @WTA facebook.com/wta Tournament Website: www.ctopen.org