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STANFORD, Calif. - Angelique Kerber remembers fondly her time at Stanford last year, when she reached the final of the Bank of the West Classic. She drew on that experience on Aug. 5 night in beating Russia's Daria Gavrilova 6-1, 6-3 in the first round.

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