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After Peng Shuai and Andrea Sestini Hlavakova won the doubles final at the 2014 Beijing Open, they went to karaoke to celebrate. The fifth-seeded duo had just beaten India's Sania Mirza and Zimbabwe's Cara Black, who had never lost a match in the Asia-Pacific region.

She was at the beginning of her comeback and I was happy to be there to play with her," Hlavakova recalls, on the phone from Rome. Their victory called for a night out so they went to a big Beijing nightclub. She was singing a lot of Chinese songs."