The WTA tour will arrive in Kentucky for the first time on August 10, while the Open Top Seed presented through Bluegras Orthopaedics will begin in Lexington.
The draw is expected to be led by Serena Williams and Sloane Stephens, and it is an exciting spectacle as high-level tennis returns to the United States for the first time since the Tour was stopped due to the coronavirus pandemic in March.
Here are six desirable facts about the latest player prevention in the game.
Since the Kentucky Derby is one of the most outstanding horse races in the world, it’s no wonder the state’s largest city has a strong equine connection. In fact, Lexington claims to be the “horse capital of the world.”
The city is surrounded by more than 400 equestrian farms, the local geology is ideal for breeding horses. As VisitLex’s online page explains: “Water passing through the huge limestone platform beneath our nutritious grasslands feeds the soil and grasslands that grow strong horses like nowhere else in the world. The superior mineral content of the soils of the Bluegrass region leads to more powerful bones and greater durability in horses and is helping to maintain our reputation as the horse capital of the world.
The winners of the Kentucky Derby Go for Gin, Western Dreamer and Staying Together in Kentucky Horse Park, which attracts more than a million visitors a year.
Kentucky is also noted for its bourbon, whose call derives from the French bourbon space in honor of the attendance of King Louis XVI of France to the American War of Independence. Adjacent to Lexington is Bourbon County, which is the birthplace of this variety of whiskey.
Because local distilleries used corn to make their liquor, it had a unique flavor. The barrels sent out of town with the word “Old Bourbon”, the call remained.
When the ban came into force in 1919, the industry virtually disappeared. At that time, there were 26 distilleries in the Land of the Bourbons, all closed, and it was not until 2014 that bourbon production returned to the region.
However, there are now 14 bourbon distilleries less than forty-five minutes from downtown Lexington, while vineyards for growing grapes for wine fit something common in the local landscape.
Bluegrass, which would be the secret of the region’s wonderful horses, also gives its call to local taste for music, on a circular holiday because the genre call really comes from the band Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys.
Monroe, who is the father of the style, described it as: “Scottish Cornemuse and old-era violin.” He’s a Way doctor and a saint and a Baptist. It’s blues and jazz, and it has a very lonely sound.
Taking place in early June, the Festival of Bluegrass has been held in Lexington since 1974, when it began with humble origins, with a farm cart serving as a stage. Since then, he has the largest musical celebration in Kentucky, won the International Bluegrass Music Association Event of the Year award in 2007 and is now held at Kentucky Horse Park.
George Clooney, arguably one of the greatest iconic figures in Western cinema of recent times, was born in Lexington on May 6, 1961.
Clooney has become famous in the hospital drama ER, in which he played Dr. Doug Ross from 1994 to 1999 before moving into the cinema, starring in the first place the 2000 hits The Perfect Storm, O Brother, Where Art Thou? His top-successful role came here at Ocean’s Eleven a year later.
It was followed by two Academy Awards, while winning the gong for Best Supporting Actor for Syriana and the Best Picture award for his role as a manufacturer in the 2013 hit Argo, a photograph with which he also won the BAFTA Good Fortune in the Best Picture category.
Beyond cinema, Clooney has become known for his humanitarian paintings in many other fields, adding the fight for equivalent rights and the campaign for peace in conflicts around the world.
Lexington is the proud home of the Kentucky Wildcats, the University of Kentucky’s sports program. He is appreciated for his good luck at NCAA basketball tournaments, with 8 national titles to his credit. It is also the first program to succeed in a milestone of 2,000 wins and is the luckiest program in the history of school basketball.
Although the Wildcats’ golden age took place between 1948 and 1958, by which time they won four NCAA crowns, their recent top win came here in 2012 with coach Jon Calipari.
Calipari’s taste for education focused primarily on young players, resulting in five first-round picks in the 2010 NBA Draft before six Wildcats were selected two years later.
Kentucky’s role in the American Civil War is vital as it is a border state. In fact, Abraham Lincoln said at the time, “Losing Kentucky would almost lose everything.”
Lincoln himself was born and raised in the state, 83 miles southwest of Lexington in Hodgenville. A memorial granite building houses a pioneering cabin on site, while in the city itself there is a bronze statue of Lincoln and a museum dedicated to it.