Singapore (SportsNetwork.
Custom Bucks Jersey .com) - World No. 1 superstar Serena Williams and French Open runner-up Simona Halep were a pair of
round-robin winners at the season-ending $6.5 million WTA Finals in Singapore.
The U.S. Open champion Williams won the Day 1 nightcap by handling seventh-
seeded former No. 1 Ana Ivanovic 6-4, 6-4 on the hardcourts at Singapore Indoor
Stadium. Williams has captured this prestigious eight-player event four times,
including the last two years in Istanbul. The American great, who beat Li Na in
last years final, is also a two-time Finals runner-up. Im really excited with
how I played tonight, Williams said. To see all my fans over there was really
exciting -- thank you so much! Ive been working hard and am glad to be here.
Today I was really fighting all the way. Ana played so well, I was just trying
to fight as hard as I could. I was even losing my voice from shouting come on so
much! The resurgent Ivanovic is making her first WTA Finals appearance in six
years. Im definitely very disappointed that both sets I made few easy errors in
the last service game, Ivanovic said. Especially in the first set, you know. I
had a break point in 4-all, which I didnt take and kind of got down a little bit
on myself. Then I rushed a little bit in the next service game, so that was a
little bit disappointing. I felt I created lots of chances, especially off the
ground. The fourth-seeded Halep opened the event Monday with a 6-2, 6-3 victory
over fifth-seeded Wimbledon runner-up Eugenie Bouchard. Both Halep and Bouchard
are making their WTA Finals debuts this week. I played really well and am really
happy to have found my game again, Halep said. I played aggressive at the right
times and hit some winners. She [Bouchard] is a great player and is very young
and will definitely be at the top for a long time. Tuesdays matches will pit
second-seeded French Open champion Maria Sharapova against eighth-seeded U.S.
Open runner-up Caroline Wozniacki and third-seeded Wimbledon champ Petra Kvitova
versus sixth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska. Sharapova captured this tournament in
2004 and is a two-time runner-up, while Kvitova was the WTA Finals champ in 2011
and Wozniacki was a finalist in 2010. Williams (1-0) leads this weeks
four-player Red Group, which also features Halep (1-0), Bouchard (0-1) and
Ivanovic (0-1). Sharapova (0-0) heads up the four-woman White Group, which also
features Kvitova (0-0), Radwanska (0-0) and Wozniacki (0-0).
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Championship. BEREA, Ohio -- Johnny Manziels No. 2 jersey has double meaning.
Hes behind Brian Hoyer. Browns coach Mike Pettine said Hoyer is "securely ahead"
in the competition to be Clevelands starting quarterback this season, but his
lead over Manziel isnt "insurmountable." After the Browns ended their three-day
mandatory minicamp Thursday, Pettine sized up the battle as a friendly fight
that will heat up when the team opens training camp late in July. Pettine said
Hoyer, who is recovering from knee surgery and has been limited during
practices, still has a grip on the starting job -- for now. "Its been hard to
evaluate because Brian hasnt been able to take the 11-on-11 reps, but when we
put the depth chart together, Brian will be No. 1," he said. Pettine agrees with
Browns general manager Ray Farmers evaluation that Manziel, the wildly popular
2012 Heisman Trophy winner and first-round draft pick from Texas A&M, has
some catching up to do. Manziel is trailing Hoyer, but maybe not by much. "I
dont think its insurmountable," Pettine said. "Brian is securely ahead of him
right now, but we will compete and we will decide. The issue for us as a staff
is finding the right time to name a starter. If you wait too late, then nobodys
ready for the opener, if you do it too soon, then it wasnt a true competition.
"That will be part of our discussions as well as far as OK, heres the plan,
heres a date that we want to go ahead and name him." During recent workouts open
to the media, Manziel has shown some of the flashes that earned him the Johnny
Football nickname in college. But there have also been moments where he looked
like another lost rookie. Pettine made it clear the Browns have not made any
decisions and the competition is still in its infancy. "We havent really been in
the mode of thinking, Hes this far ahead today. How much was the gap closed?"
Pettine said. "Theyre still learning the bbasics of the offence.
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point, we really werent keeping score. " Pettine kept Hoyer and Manziel off
limits to reporters this week, hoping to contain a story thats expected to only
grow. In the next few weeks, Pettine and his staff will decide how to best
divide the snaps between Hoyer and Manziel. Pettine said its safe to assume the
duties will be shared. "I dont know how even well get it, but there will
definitely be times when Johnny will be with the ones (starters)," Pettine said.
"It would be hard to evaluate if we didnt that. If there wasnt a competition,
then it would just be strictly ones and ones, twos and twos. We havent met to go
over that." Pettine also plans to play Manziel with Clevelands starting offence
in exhibition games. "If a guy has a chance to be a starter, I would think that
youd want to expose him to a starting defence if he was going to be the guy
opening day," said Pettine. Manziel has made some headlines with his
off-the-field antics in recent weeks. He partied poolside in Las Vegas with
Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski and was filmed spraying champagne on patrons
in a nightclub. Last weekend, he was in Austin, Texas, where he was photographed
lying on an inflatable swan raft in a pool, drinking champagne. Pettine wont
micromanage Manziel or any of his players as long as theyre not involved in
anything thats criminal or affects their jobs. But with a long break coming up,
hes hoping all the Browns steer clear of danger. "Its nervous any time your
entire team is dismissed," he said. "As a coach, you hear your phone ring and
you kind of look at it with one eye, hoping its not an issue coming up. We
talked to them about it. We wanted to make sure that they handled themselves
well. The advice was: Learn the system, stay in shape, stay out of trouble."
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