And she will be formidable, especially since Keys had a hard third-round match.
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Vinci is now ranked No. 8.
Sevastova was out of the game for 20 months until the start of past year, having announced her retirement in May 2013 after a series of injuries. “I think that’s very nice of her to say”, Keys said, with a laugh.
“I was trying. I felt like that I really made the chances but I just didn’t take them unfortunately”.
“But let’s see what happens here in the next few days”. “I love playing in this incredible stadium”.
Monfils had lost six consecutive major quarterfinals since reaching his only previous semifinal, 8½ years ago at the French Open.
Pouille, meanwhile, ran out of steam. There are four matches on Sunday, four on Monday.
Sevastova twisted her right ankle on the first point of the second game and was unable to move properly the rest of the way against Wozniacki, a former No. 1 who is now ranked only 74th and hadn’t won a grand slam match in 2016 until last week. 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.
Her run at Flushing Meadows followed injury withdrawals from Montreal and Washington and a first-round exit at New Haven, so she was pleased to emerge from the US Open feeling fit.
Touted by the U.S. Tennis Association as the “future home of American tennis”, the USTA National Campus will open in Florida in January. Moving nimbly at the net and employing a two-handed backhand behind the baseline, Wozniacki chased down balls and challenged Sevastova to find angles past her.
The Italian aimed sarcastic applause and a thumbs-up at the impassive line judge, but the veteran never regained her composure as she garnered just 10 points in a 24-minute second set. But Mouratoglou insisted that if Williams had been “20 percent less injured, she would have won in two sets”. Injuries haven’t allowed her to play the kind of tennis that enabled her to reach the top of the rankings.
For another past U.S. Open finalist, this tournament is also a rush of positive thoughts. She’s a hard worker, ‘ said the Dane.
Sevastova broke the service of Konta – an Australian Open semifinalist – seven times during the match.
Williams was who Wozniacki lost to in the 2014 U.S. Open final, the last time the Dane made it this far or further at a major.
The remaining four last-16 matches take place on Monday when world number one and six-time victor Serena Williams tackles Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan. But she returned to competitive tennis two years later and outlasted the Great Britain native in straight sets.
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Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark reacts after losing a point against Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia during their 2016 US Open Women’s Singles match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in NY on September 6, 2016.
