Novak Djokovic is through to the third round of the US Open after Jiri Vesely was unable to face the number one in the second round due to injury.
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Nadal, who said his injured wrist is improving daily, beat Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan 6-1, 6-4, 6-2, in his firstround match on Monday.
“It was hard to put on a show after Phil Collins”, said the Serb.
On his arm injury, Djokovic added: “It’s never easy to play at this level throughout the year”.
“Playing Novak you have to be 100-percent ready”, Vesely said.
The top-ranked Djokovic faced a potentially tricky second-round matchup Wednesday against Jiri Vesely, who defeated him in their only meeting last spring. But since winning the French Open, Djokovic lost in the third round of Wimbledon and in the first round at the Olympics, bothered by the left wrist.
You are reading news and information on LongIsland.com, Long Island’s Most Popular Website, Since 1996. Injuries are part of the career. Just gained the consistency, I think, over the last couple of years.
Ana Ivanovic is out of the U.S. Open in the first round for the second straight year after a 7-6 (4), 6-1 loss to Denisa Allertova of the Czech Republic.
After the match, Djokovic continued to deflect questions after reporters had previously questioned him about getting treatment the day before his opening appearance at the U.S. Open.
During the match, the world no. 1 had called for the trainer but mentioned that he’d done so forjust prevention and that it was all good in hispost-match press conference.
Kerber, a semi-finalist in 2011, next faces Mirjana Lucic-Baroni of Croatia.
Muguruza carved out a gritty 2-6, 6-0, 6-3 win over Belgian qualifier Elise Mertens, ranked at 137. Vinci needed just 22 minutes to win the first set.
The consultation certainly worked as she reeled off the next seven games to lay the foundation for her win. Muguruza will now face Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia for a place in the last 32.
However, another Frenchman, Richard Gasquet, a semi-finalist in 2013 and quarter-finalist previous year, became the tournament’s first major seeded casualty when he was stunned in straight sets by Great Britain’s Kyle Edmund. He went down to 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 to British Kyle Edmund. The Frenchman, seeded 10th, won 6-4 6-2 7-6 (7-5).
The seventh-seeded Italian beat American Christina McHale 6-1, 6-3 on Wednesday.
Monfils nearly suffered a freak accident when a giant courtside clock fell towards him as he collided with the back wall, chasing down a Muller shot.
The Flushing Meadows complex has been radically and expensively remodelled for this year.
The Japanese sixth seed, who fell to Marin Cilic in the 2014 final, quashed German Benjamin Becker’s rally attempt, emerging with a 6-1, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 victory on the new Grandstand court in two hours 10 minutes. Rogers was a surprise quarterfinalist at the French Open this year. They had a brief confrontation during a 2015 match in Munich when Rosol and Murray bumped into each other as they changed ends.
Later under the lights, the tournament’s new, $150 million retractable roof above Arthur Ashe Stadium was closed during a match for the first time, when there was rain during the second set of Rafael Nadal’s 6-0, 7-5, 6-1 victory against Andreas Seppi. I’m glad that I’m experiencing that.
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Nike is dressing their players in bright yellow at the US Open which could cause problems trying to spot the ball which is also – yellow.
