She was visibly shy and nervous, and I learned that this was not only her first real tour, but also her first-ever live on-air session.
The dates are part of her first world tour since the Girlie Show in 1993.
She won her first two tour titles at Estoril in May and Linz last month, earning her a spot in this week's season-ending champions event in Bali.
Ivanovic, who has slumped to 58th in the rankings since winning the French Open in 2008, was seeking to reach her first WTA Tour final since March 2009.
Barrios was playing in her first WTA Tour final but was not overawed against her famous opponent, having the better of the early proceedings to lead 5-3 in the first set.
Teenage sensation Lydia Ko, who was born in South Korea but is a New Zealand national, stormed to her first LPGA Tour title last month, with much expected of the 15-year-old at Hoylake.
She may never have progressed past the second round of any grand slam singles event, but she did break into the top 30 for the first time and reached her first WTA Tour final at the UNICEF Open in the Netherlands.
"Overall I fought hard, and I'm pretty proud of the way I played this week and I think it's a good week leading up to a major, so I'm just excited to get over there and play well, " said Wie, who is still looking for her first LPGA Tour win in the United States.
Vandeweghe defeated Italy's Tathiana Garbin 6-4 6-4 for her first victory in a WTA Tour main-draw match.
But in a see-saw deciding set, the American finally broke in the seventh game, going on to win her first match since returning to the tour after a knee injury.
The Pole's reward for a 6-7 (10-12) 6-4 6-2 success is a match with Argentine qualifier Paula Ormaechea, who claimed the first WTA Tour level match win of her career by beating 50th-ranked Romanian Simona Halep 6-1 3-6 7-5.
She pulled out of a comeback tour last month after a disastrous appearance at her first gig.
Her comments came on the first full day of a two-day tour of northwest England.
In 1935, a 10-month world tour of a honeymoon took Ms. Duke and her first husband, James Cromwell, to the Middle East and India.
At the Amgen Tour of California women's time trial Friday, Stevens won her first race since coming back.
She also won a Grammy in 1999 for her first live album, Live at Carnegie Hall: The 50th Anniversary Concert, and continued to tour until her death.
Armstrong will give his first television interview since being stripped of his Tour de France titles to Oprah Winfrey, her network announced Tuesday.
Wie is bidding to become the first woman to make the cut on the PGA Tour for 61 years and remained upbeat despite her troubled round on Thursday.
The 23-year-old won her first grand slam title in Melbourne last January before going on to top the rankings and become the WTA Tour's leading prize money winner for 2012.
Clijsters, who made history in September as the first unseeded player to win the U.S. Open in her third event back on the WTA Tour following her own short-lived retirement, took control as she won eight straight games.
That's why it's no surprise that the first question at a Television Critics Association press tour panel in Los Angeles was about the rumors of her impending departure from the third-place newscast.
The Russian looked rust in the first set and her serve was broken twice by Jovanovski, one of the brightest prospects on the women's tour.
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