Serena Williams Reached Landmark Women’s Record Of 307:- The world No. 1 seeded Serena Williams has achieved another milestone when she registered a win against the Johanna Larsson by 6-2, 6-1 in the last match.
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Halep appeared poised to ease through to the round of 16 after taking the first set in just 24 minutes but Babos found her composure, claiming the second to force a decider. Hitting 11 winners and breaking serve six times, the elder Williams sister survived several long games against the German veteran – one of the longest coming as she served for the opening set.
Sixth-seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan, two years removed from his run to the final, rallied for a 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 win over Frances Nicolas Mahut.
A U.S. Open victory would give Williams 23 Grand Slam victories and break the tie she is in with Steffi Graf to give her the most in the Open era. Siegemund was only able to convert one her two break point opportunities against Venus Williams during the second frame. She will play Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan in the fourth round. She has only ever failed to make it past the first weekend of the the tournament once in her career. Third-seeded Stan Wawrinka, who saved a match point in a five-set win Saturday, faces Illya Marchenko, who’s in his first Grand Slam round of 16.
Ana Konjuh will be tested by world no. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska, her highest ranked opponent in her two-year career, in the round of sixteen.
Venus is into the fourth round for the second straight season, having gone four years without passing round three while she learned to cope with Sjogren’s syndrome, an auto-immune disease that causes chronic fatigue and muscle soreness.
Gael Monfils, the No.10 seed, became the first through to the men’s quarterfinals at this year’s US Open after a 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 victory over Marcos Baghdatis on Sunday.
Radwanska breezed into the fourth round with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Caroline Garcia. Finally, Simona Halep, the fifth seed, will face No. 11 Carla Suarez Navarro to wrap up the fourth round for the women.
Serena Williams is Tiger Woods in a tennis skirt. Shvedova is yet to beat Williams in four attempts.
Williams’ clothing and shoe sponsor is using that line as part of a marketing campaign during the US Open.
Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player who is ranked No. 1 in women’s singles tennis. That’s because 19-year-old qualifier Jared Donaldson’s run ended with a straight-set loss to 37-year-old Ivo Karlovic, the oldest man to reach the fourth round in NY since Jimmy Connors was 39 in 1991.
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Nishikori, who has dropped a set in each of his matches so far, will take on Ivo Karlovic for a quarter-final berth after the towering Croatian defeated 19-year-old American Jared Donaldson 6-4, 7-6 (7/3), 6-3. I’m enjoying waking up in the morning early to come to practice. “She’s unsafe”, Mouratoglou said about Shvedova.
