Her 27-year-old opponent followed up her own upset win over world No. 2 Caroline Wozniacki on Wednesday by reaching her third WTA Tour final.
At the age of just 14, she has made a brilliant start to her first junior Grand Slam, stunning 18-year-old world number seven Gabriela Dabrowski in the first round before fighting her way past 17-year-old Ksenia Kirillova the second round.
Another young American, 17-year-old Tatyana McFadden, beat her world record in the 100m.
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An 11-year-old girl who lost her father made the world cry with her on Tuesday.
Jilted by the man she loved at the altar, Miss Havisham retreats from the world, exiling herself to her old, decaying mansion, never taking off her disintegrating, yellowing bridal gown and plotting her revenge on the male sex by molding her adopted daughter into a cruel man-eater.
The 20-year-old, who is playing her first Grand Slam as world number one, will face Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova , who beat Italy's Alberta Brianti 6-1 4-6 6-2, in the next round.
Democratic mayoral candidate Christine Quinn said she visited five parades, including one in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, where she posed with her father, Larry Quinn, 86 years old, a World War II veteran.
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The 20-year-old Slovakian, ranked 58th in the world, claimed her first career title with a 6-0 7-6 victory over Chinese fourth seed Li Na.
However, Serena's serve improved gradually and having recovered from 3-1 down to take the second set tie-break, the world number one eventually overpowered her 20-year-old opponent.
Having inherited one of the most dynamic economies in the world from her political patron, 64-year-old Dilma Rousseff won her first ever election to become the first female President of Brazil.
Over in the Land Down Under, a 17-year-old girl has riled up the world of Australian football with her digital revenge.
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The 25-year-old matched her result in Croatia in May and rises to third in the world rankings.
But "change" was not how 26-year-old Lorena Ferrer saw the selection of a pope from her part of the world.
Born in Chile, but a longtime Spain representative at international level, the 31-year-old became the first skier from her country to win a women's World Cup downhill.
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Sixteen-year-old golf prodigy Michelle Wie is playing in her first professional tournament, the Samsung World Championship in Palm Desert, California.
The 18-year-old is projected to move up from her current ranking of 176 to inside the world's top 150 next week.
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It is alleged that she killed herself after receiving several cruel messages, including one purporting to be from the fictitious 16-year-old boy - named Josh Evans saying the world would be better off without her.
The South African runner's 800-meters victory as an 18-year-old at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin sparked a furore that saw her miss a year of competition while tests were undertaken to determine her true sex.
But in the summer, she would return East, where her world revolved around her three children, her seven grandchildren and 2-year-old great-granddaughter.
And she says talking about her old arts elementary school, one of the many not reopening, is like talking about a dream world.
The 34-year-old, who won world bronze in Helsinki in 2005 and silver in Paris in 2003, secured her first global title by edging out Canada's Olympic bronze medallist Priscilla Lopes-Schliep.
Her financial planner, however, does know how old she is, and regardless of whether she swims around the world or at the local sports club, she has a different financial focus than a forty year old.
The 18-year-old Cavaday, who was given a wild card for the Edgbaston event, was ecstatic after her victory over the world number 61.
The 32-year-old has been battling injury and illness over the past two years but clawed her way back to 26th in the world rankings following her 44th career title in Luxembourg.
Catherine Spencer, who led England to a fifth successive Six Nations title this season, leads the 26-strong squad, which features a variety of experience from the likes of Saracens hooker Amy Garnett - who has played in three previous World Cups - to 20-year-old Emily Scarratt, who has scored 16 tries in her 18 caps.
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