Bethanie Mattek-Sands defeated Alize Cornet 7-6 (9-7) 7-5 for her first singles win in the women's teams tournament, while Melanie Oudin beat debutant Pauline Parmentier 6-4 6-4 in the second rubber.
Steffi Graf won the women's singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Gabriela Sabatini 6-4, 3-6, 8-6.
The two-day world championship event concludes Saturday evening with women's singles followed by the team relay.
In the women's singles event, Akiko Morigami of Japan defeated Paraguay's Rossana Neffa-De Los Rios 6-4 6-2.
The Wimbledon women's singles seedings reflect the current WTA Tour rankings, with world number one Sharapova selected top.
Victoria Azarenka, who won Saturday's women's singles final over Li Na, was also there with her boyfriend rapper Redfoo.
In the women's singles, seventh seed Jennifer Capriati continued her solid form, beating France's Nathalie Dechy, seeded 25, 7-5 6-1.
The first strokes in anger will be played next Monday with first round action in both the men's and women's singles.
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Or the epic women's singles final in 1986 when Chris Evert won a record seventh title, beating her old foe Martina Navratilova.
Chouquet eventually became a professional umpire, and he officiated the women's singles final at Roland Garros in 1994, among other high-profile matches.
Meanwhile, Japan's Akiko Morigami has pulled out of the women's singles with an injured knee and is replaced by the Czech Republic's Renata Voracova.
Navratilova won the Wimbledon women's singles title a record nine times.
China, where millions play table tennis across the country, have never lost the women's singles crown since the sport was introduced at the 1988 Olympics.
Djokovic's latest Australian title marked the first time since Wimbledon in 1997 that the top seeds in men's and women's singles and doubles claimed their titles.
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In addition, Hais and Winograd note, there are other constituencies women, particularly singles as well as those with graduate degrees broke strongly for the President.
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In the women's singles second round, former world number one Maria Sharapova continued her poor run with a 7-6 6-2 defeat by unseeded Russian compatriot Elena Vesnina.
The win hands Zhang her fourth gold medal over two Olympics, after success in the women's singles and doubles in Athens and team and singles competition in Beijing, equally the great Deng Yaping's gold medal haul.
Wang also won the women's singles title in Sydney, bringing her career tally to three Olympic gold and cementing her status as one of the best players in China's seemingly endless production-line of elite table tennis players.
Elsewhere on day 15 of the Games, China's world number one Zhang Yining won back-to-back table tennis golds, after defeating team-mate Wang Nan to hand the hosts a clean sweep of the medals in the women's singles.
Add in consistent Russians Safina and Elena Dementieva, not to mention the return to near her best of their compatriot and 2008 champion Maria Sharapova and the depth of competition in the women's singles almost stands comparison with the men's draw.
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In December, the USTA said it would move the 2013 women's singles final to Sunday and the men's final to Monday, building in a day of rest ahead of each title match and moving from a 14-day tournament to 15 days.
In the women's singles Svetlana Kuznetsova is the defending champion but faces stiff competition in the face of the Williams sisters, as well as four-time French Open champion Justine Henin, who is competing for the first time since coming out of retirement.
In December, the USTA said it would move the women's singles final to Sunday and the men's final to Monday in 2013, building in a day of rest ahead of each title match and moving from a 14-day tournament to 15 days.
Singapore may field three badminton players at the Commonwealth Games who have come from Indonesia, and Hong Kong could have one, in addition to their former world women's singles quarter-finalist Wang Chen, who crossed the border from China to the former British colony.
In December, the USTA said it would move the women's singles final to Sunday and the men's final to Monday in 2013, building in a day of rest ahead of each title match for the first time and moving from a 14-day tournament to 15 days.
The Barnsley player, who won gold in Manchester in 2002, is keen to defend her women's wheelchair singles title in Melbourne next year.
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The result leaves Britain with two women remaining in the singles, Elena Baltacha and Katie O'Brien, both of whom have similarly testing first-round matches.
Wiliams is the only player left in the women's 2012 singles draw not to have dropped a set, matching the record of men's defending champion Novak Djokovic.
The men's and women's lightweight singles titles went to Helen Casey and world champion Zac Purchase in 7:47.34 and 6:56.19 respectively, while Alison Knowles and Natasha Howard won the women's pair in 7:15.54.
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Navratilova won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, a record 31 Grand Slam women's doubles titles and 10 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles.
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