Observer.com | by Irina Aleksander | Fri, Aug 22
Fri, Aug 22
And of course Nike invited some of its old friends, including tennis stars Roger Federer, Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova, to help open the doors.
We wondered what the Russian tennis beauty thought about the U.S. Open draws that took place just yesterday.
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