WTA STARS HEAD TO BAHAMAS FOR CHARITY Lindsay Davenport, Sabine Lisicki and Anna-Lena Groenefeld were among the WTA stars in the Bahamas over the weekend for the Mark Knowles Celebrity Tennis Invitational.
After a cocktail reception on Thursday, sponsors teamed up with the stars in the popular Pro-Am on Friday. The players, event organizers and sponsors reunited in the evening for a special dinner at the Ripples Deck, featuring a gourmet buffet and live and silent auctions - the items on offer included signed racquets from Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, a dual photograph signed by Roger Federer and Jack Nicklaus and the dress Serena Williams wore when she won this year's US Open final. The highest-selling item was a US Open poster signed by number of top players, which sold for $6,000.
The tennis exhibition on Saturday saw fans treated to three sets of tennis using the World TeamTennis format. Play opened with a mixed doubles match between Lisicki and Knowles against Davenport and Donald Johnson, and was followed by a men's singles encounter - Sam Querrey versus Xavier Malisse. In the final match-up, Knowles and Malisse took on Querrey and Alex Kuznetsov.
