Like Djokovic, Serena Williams is aiming for a rebound. If Williams isn’t at full strength, Kerber is just one of the players poised to pounce.
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Top-ranked Serena Williams will meet two-time major semifinalist Ekaterina Makarova in the first round of the U.S. Open as the American seeks a record 23rd Grand Slam title.
Broady has climbed to 83rd in the world and 164 spots above Robson, who is bidding to win her first grand slam match since reaching the third round at Flushing Meadows in 2013.
It also ended his hopes of going on to complete the first calendar Grand Slam since 1969.
Williams equalled Steffi Graf’s Open era record of 22 majors with victory at Wimbledon in July.
Things haven’t been rosy since. But it was nothing linked to the wrist injury I got in Rio.
Jankovic was runner-up at the 2008 US Open, Safina made the finals of the 2008 Australian Open and 2008 and 2009 French Opens.
“I would imagine if I’m lucky I’d be playing at this level for three, four more years, max, I would think”, said 2012 champion Murray.
“You just have to make the best of every single opportunity. That’s all I can do now”.
The older McEnroe added: ” If things are going on in your personal life, for me it made it very hard to get that focus and intensity and will and all the other things you need to bring to the table – preparation, too – in order to play your best on the court.
“She’s a big fighter”, Williams said.
Top-ranked Serena Williams says she hasn’t practiced much because of her right shoulder injury. I think having that different perspective helps a lot.
“Every year Serena adds to her resume and history in the game, the NY crowds, while she’s never been beloved, I think the appreciation and realisation that the fans are looking at an athlete that comes along once in a blue moon”.
She could find fifth-seeded Romanian Simona Halep waiting in the quarters and elder sister Venus, the sixth seed, in the semis.
Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Angelique Kerber and Garbine Mugurza are some of the big names in action on the opening day of the US Open 2016.
Cilic, the surprise 2014 champion and 2009 victor Del Potro, the runner-up at the Olympics, should also not be discounted.
So, in terms of Grand Slam form, Raonic is playing his best tennis.
Reaching the final could see her overtake Williams but Muguruza said the prospect of becoming number one did not add pressure.
Djokovic said the reasons for his All England Club catastrophe were not physical but private. “The bar was higher maybe than anything I’ve ever seen as far as his consistency”, McEnroe said as quoted by DailyMail. She has a strong Polish background on both sides of her family and three years ago moved across the border from Kiel, where she grew up, to Puszczykowo, a town near Poznan. There was even a sense of incredulity that she had won.
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Victory in NY would see British No.1 Murray move closer to the top of the world rankings – a place he has never occupied in his career.
