After about 1+ years away, during which she studied accounting and marketing in Austria, Sevastova chose to give the sport another go.
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Wozniacki will face either eighth-seeded American Madison Keys or Japan’s Naomi Osaka in the last 16 and said she needed to continue to play aggressive tennis. Once I was able to get a little bit of momentum I felt like I found my game a bit more.
The final four games of the set would be more competitive with Sevastova holding serve in her final two service games to get on the board, but Wozniacki would serve the match out on her first chance for another straight-set victory.
“Yeah, I get it now. Today was a tough match and I was tight in the end and right now I’m in the quarterfinals and a year ago the final, so what do I have to say?”
World number one Djokovic claimed a laboured win over Poland s Jerzy Janowicz in his opening match in which he required treatment on his right upper arm. “When it’s on, I just pray that it’s going to stay on for a while”.
Victory for Kerber would take her to a season-leading 50 wins for 2016.
“I still believe and feel that I am one of the top players”.
And she did it the old fashioned way. She’s a hard worker. “I think that’s kind of recharged my batteries”.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It’s a court I love”.
Kerber’s previous semi-final appearance at the US Open was in 2011, when she lost to Australian Samantha Stosur. “I have the Asian swing to look forward to, so that’s really what I’m thinking about next”.
A foot fault on set point in the opening set appeared to trip up Vinci and sent her tumbling out of the year’s final grand slam, with the second set lasting just 24 minutes.
German second seed and Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber closes the night session against American 17-year-old CiCi Bellis, the youngest player left in the women s draw. “It’s not going to be an easy one, but I’m excited just to have another shot”.
Perhaps buoyed by sleeping in her own bed and eating her mom’s cooking, Wozniacki is feeling good about her play after a poor year that featured a right ankle injury in April. “But it just feels so good to me to be out on the big court and somewhere where I feel so comfortable and familiar”, concluded a smiling Wozniacki.
And that’s her secret this year.
“It’s always tough to play Roberta”. She skips the lines there, per the adminstrators’ allowance to her, but she maintains that her goal is more games played on Ashe.
“When I was a kid, I was always dreaming to being the number one”, Kerber told the BBC.
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“I came into this tournament ranked 74 in the world and probably people ruled me out, but it’s nice to prove people wrong once again”. She was ranked 74 coming into NY. Now it’s time to finish the job. Puig, the star of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro when she won her country’s first ever gold medal, was a huge disappointment at Flushing Meadows. The match truly looks even-handed as Keys has been tested in NY while Wozniacki’s ranking doesn’t reflect her level of play at the moment.
