I can play three match in five sets in a row.
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Williams reached 121 miles per hour on a serve.
From there, the two men took turns winning sets, forcing the match into a fifth and decisive one. But she returned to the sport at the start of last season, and her ranking has steadily climbed to 48th.
“I had to serve very consistently because he’s a pretty good returner”.
“I was injured and not having fun and I was kind of depressed, but now I’m back”.
“Is true that I don’t have a lot of matches on my shoulders for the last three, four months, but even like this, I lost an opportunity”.
“There is no pain”. Maybe she feels a little. “I wanted to move him around the court”. I am ready to keep playing. “I have good feelings on the court, so we’ll see”. I know what I have to do.
Kerber’s next opponent will be 2015 US Open runner-up Roberta Vinci of Italy, who beat Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine 7-6, 6-2. No. 11 Carla Suarez Navarro, and No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska vs. Ana Konjuh.
“During the practice it was 6-1 6-3 for him”.
Since losing in last year’s French Open quarterfinals, Nadal has failed to make it beyond the fourth round at a major.
Monday sees the Williams sisters, Serena and Venus, compete in their fourth round matches, with Andy Murray and Juan Martin del Potro looking to book their spots in the quarter-finals of the men’s draw.
Edmund, playing in a Grand Slam fourth round for the first time, barely got a look-in during the first two sets against the world number one and defending champion, who booked a last-eight meeting with ninth-seeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, a 6-3, 6-3, 6-7 (7/9), 6-2 victor over American Jack Sock.
Nadal saved three match points in a pulsating final-set tie-break, but could not avert the fourth as Pouille triumphed 6-1 2-6 6-4 3-6 7-6 (8/6).
“Sometimes”, Pouille said of the raucous crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium, “I couldn’t even hear myself when I was saying, ‘Allez!”
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (9), France, def. Jack Sock (26), United States, 6-3, 6-3, 6-7 (7), 6-2.
NEW YORK (AP) – Novak Djokovic was not interested in discussing in any detail why he needed a trainer to work on his right elbow during an otherwise matter-of-fact 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 victory over Kyle Edmund on Sunday night that put the defending champion in the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the 10th consecutive year. Karlovic plays No. 6 Kei Nishikori next. When you have 4-3, 30-Love, when you are there, is 50%.
But then it was over, with Pouille claiming a 6-1, 2-6, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (8-6) victory to ensure his yearlong coming out party will continue into the Open’s second week.
“She’s unsafe”, Mouratoglou said. “I need something more that was not there today”.
“You’re out there, you’re trying to find ways to win”, Larsson said, “but sometimes, it’s just not happening”. As he rose with eyes wide open – and tongue still wagging – the last man from France to win any Grand Slam singles title, 1983 French Open champion Yannick Noah, whose son Joakim recently joined the New York Knicks, spread around high-fives in the stands.
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This was Williams” first daytime match of the U.S. Open, so she debuted a new outfit – a white dress accessorized with neon pink compression wraps on her arms, which she called “my “Wonder Woman’ sleeves”. Now if I say, yeah, of course it’s going to change my career and in one year I am [ranked] 50 I will be wrong.
