After ending his decade-long run in the successful band alt-country band The Jayhawks, opener Mark Olson moved to the country with then-wife Victoria Williams.
In his first match in New York since losing in the 2011 U.S. Open final, Nadal returns Monday to face Juan Martin del Potro in the annual BNP Paribas Showdown, with Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka as the undercard.
Serena Williams takes on Victoria Azarenka in the earlier match.
Venus Williams, Caroline Wozniacki and Victoria Azarenka are also participating in the event in Hong Kong.
Defending champion Victoria Azarenka and third-ranked Serena Williams will be among Sharapova's main opposition as she seeks to win her fifth grand slam title, having completed the set at last year's French Open.
But Sharapova insists the women's game is on an upward curve, with players like Victoria Azarenka, Petra Kvitova and Serena Williams battling it out for major honors, and a new generation of talented youngsters snapping at their heels.
The previous year Williams also picked up the Liverpool Victoria UK Championship and the Regal Welsh Open on his home turf to place him at the top of the snooker tree.
Vika appeared to be such a glossier prime-time match women's No. 1 Serena Williams would square off with promising nemesis Victoria Azarenka.
"I think Victoria is the player to beat, " said Williams.
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Williams will now face world number six Victoria Azarenka of the Belarus, who came back from 2-4 down in the second set to complete a 6-3 6-4 win over Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland.
In the women's draw defending champion and world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka, from Belarus, could face nemesis Serena Williams in the semifinals.
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Both players had reached the quarterfinals of the previous tournament in Qatar, where Kvitova lost to new world No. 1 Serena Williams and Errani was beaten by her predecessor Victoria Azarenka.
World number four Williams has beaten Sharapova, current world number one Victoria Azarenka and two other former world number ones in Caroline Wozniacki and Jelena Jankovic on her way to the title, dropping only 17 games in six matches.
Elsewhere, Serena Williams set up a semifinal showdown with world number one Victoria Azarenka.
Third seed Williams had a free run w hen World No.1 Victoria Azarenka pulled out of their semifinal rather than risk a toe injury ahead of Melbourne, while second-ranked Sharapova also withdrew before the start of the tournament with a collarbone injury.
Williams lost just 14 total games in five matches in Rome, and trounced Victoria Azarenka, the world's No. 3 player, 6-1, 6-3 in the final.
And it is the way that Magadonga Mahlangu and Jenni Williams and the women and men who take to the streets of Harare and Bulawayo and Victoria Falls because they love their country and love their children and know that something better is possible.
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