“It’s not easy to do that”.
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I hope I’m still playing like this when I’m 38 years old. but it’s pretty unlikely.
Williams said she wanted to prepare more for the Open, “but there is nothing you can do about it and I am going to try to make the best of every single opportunity that I have to play”.
“I think a lot of it has to do with her shoulder because that serve is the big key for her to win matches”.
Murray has played in all of the first three finals of the majors in 2016, losing to world number one Djokovic in Melbourne and Paris before defeating Milos Raonic in straight sets in the Wimbledon final.
His most recent left wrist problem forced a withdrawal midway through the French Open, kept him out of Wimbledon and prevented even practicing for two and a half months.
The 2010 and 2013 champion here won the doubles gold at Rio but lost the singles bronze medal play-off to Kei Nishikori. I have actually gotten along fine with him apart from that day, and he is a tough opponent, a Big, strong guy who goes for his shots and takes a lot of risks.´.
“That’s something that I have learned as I got older; whereas before when I was younger it was different”. “I have not played a lot and practiced a lot”.
With Roger Federer absent from Flushing Meadows while he recovers from a back problem and Nadal still suffering from a wrist injury of his own, the year’s final major tournament suddenly appears there for Murray’s taking.
It’s been two years since neither reached the men’s final at a Grand Slam – that occurred at the 2014 U.S. Open.
“But Murray’s playing the best tennis of his life”.
The British No 1 has been handed an opening match against Czech opponent Lukas Rosol at the NY tournament, which starts on Monday. As she enters the US Open, Williams is the hot favourite and thus poised to make history by going one up on Graf’s Open Era record.
Serena Williams enters the US Open with a chance to surpass Steffi Graf for the record of most Grand Slam titles.
But that hasn’t dented his confidence that he can claim a second US Open, four years after his breakthrough in NY saw him become the first British man in 76 years to win a Grand Slam title.
Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal may both be heading into the US Open with niggling injuries but Andy Murray will not be lured into a false sense of security.
She then withdrew from her WTA title defence in Cincinnati, still struggling with painful shoulder inflammation. “She’s just a unsafe first-round player so that’s interesting”.
The German defeated Williams in the Australian Open final in January. She could face Williams in the semifinals, though she has never beaten Williams in head-to-head action.
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Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska and Romanian Simona Halep, the fourth and fifth seeds respectively, are also safely through.
