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Daily Bagel: Vicky Duval is cancer free, the WTA stars explore China

The Daily Bagel is your dose of the interesting reporting, writing and quipping from around the Internet.

• Overnight results: At the Wuhan Open, Caroline Garcia followed up her first-round win over Venus Williams with a 3-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (7) upset win over No. 5-seed Agnieszka Radwanska on Monday, while No. 4-seeded Maria Sharapova beat fellow Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 in a second-round night match that lasted more than two hours. Ana Ivanovic retired with a thigh problem against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and No. 12 and Australian Open finalist Dominika Cibulkova retired with a left ankle problem at the start of the third against Madison Keys. Others advancing at the Wuhan Open include Alize Cornet of France, Casey Dellacqua of Australia, Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain and American Coco Vandeweghe.​ Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay opened the Malaysian Open with a 6-4, 7-6 (1) victory over Jurgen Melzer of Austria on Monday, and at the Shenzhen Open, ​Juan Monaco got one step closer to his 300th career win on the ATP Tour with a victory over Federico Delbonis. 

• After being diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in July, Vicky Duval announced that she is cancer free on her Instagram:

• Sabine Lisicki celebrated her birthday in Wuhan, China, with a song from the crowd.

• From The New York Times wedding section, "A Matter of Game, Set, Perfect Match."

• Serena Williams enjoys "magic" toilets:

• WTA player Gala Leon was named Spain's first female Davis Cup captain.

• A neat infographic from the WTA showing Simona Halep's statistics en route to qualifying for the Finals in Singapore. 

• The USTA is facing a lawsuit for refusing to reschedule an upcoming tournament so the Orthodox Jewish participants could avoid having to play on the Sabbath.