NEW YORK - Angelique Kerber is more than ready to face whatever challenges her new status as world number one and double Grand Slam champion bring. "I was always dreaming of one day being number one and to be in the Grand Slams," she said. Kerber, first introduced to tennis at the age of three, said she wasn't sorry her breakthrough to the most elite ranks has come so late. While Li, who was 29 when she won the 2011 French Open, bowed out in a 2014 season that saw her win the Australian Open, Kerber indicated she is just getting started. "Being number one of course now everybody will try to beat me and have nothing to lose.

Source: Bangkok Post September 11, 2016 01:41 UTC