As for Pliskova, the elder Williams said: “We play kind of a similar game”.
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It is an appropriate image for one of the greatest tennis players of all time, a player seemingly without peer as she topples one record after another. The way the 34-year-old American is playing, she is more than likely to break Federer’s record in her next match.
There was little question of who she had in mind, although she acknowledged, with a satisfied nod: “It is me”.
Another win, another milestone for Serena Williams who rolled into the US Open last 16 on Sunday (AEST) by crushing Sweden’s Johanna Larsson 6-2, 6-1 to collect grand slam victory number 307 – the most by a woman in the Open era.
World number one and defending champion Serena, trying to break the record of 22 grand slam titles she shares with Steffi Graf, plays number 52 Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan.
And, if you want to hear something that should frighten Williams’ upcoming opponents next week, this is how she described her first week at the U.S. Open when asked if she could give herself a grade: “I feel OK. To be up there with both men and women is something that’s super rare”.
Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player who is ranked No. 1 in women’s singles tennis.
Venus Williams, victor of the US Open in 2000 and 2001, is also through as she defeated Germany’s Laura Siegemund 6-1, 6-2 to set up a meeting with Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in round four.
“It definitely feels solid”, she said of the shoulder, which didn t appear to trouble her in the one hour she needed to subdue Larsson. Evans held a match point at 6-5 in the fourth-set tiebreaker, but Wawrinka erased it, then took that set and raced to a 4-0 lead in the fifth.
Suarez celebrated her 28th birthday with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Russian Elena Vesnina.
The 40th-ranked Lorenzi put up a gritty fight in spite of coming off a gruelling five-set, five-hour win over French 30th seed Gilles Simon in his second-round tilt. “I’m doing a lot of work on it so I can keep it in this position”.
“(Saturday) was a more straightforward win, but not ideal”, the No. 6-seeded Williams said.
Illya Marchenko of the Ukraine awaits in the fourth round for the Swiss.
Women’s fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska advanced easily, dispatching France’s Caroline Garcia 6-2, 6-3 to set up a meeting with Croatian Ana Konjuh, a 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 victor over American Varvara Lepchenko.
Despite an error-strewn performance, Andy Murray downed Paolo Lorenzi 7-6 (7), 5-7, 6-2, 6-3 to book a fourth-round meeting with Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov.
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As cool as the breeze blowing through the open roof at Arthur Ashe Stadium on a comfortable Saturday evening at the U.S. Open, the perfectionist easily advanced into the fourth round of the U.S. Open by knocking off No. 26 seed Laura Siegemund in straight sets, 6-1, 6-2. The hard-hitting Czech, who shocked Angelique Kerber in the final of the US Open tune-up in Cincinnati, defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-2, 6-4.
