A year ago, Serena beat Venus in the quarterfinals.
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The two have met eight times previously, with Williams winning six of those matches. In the end, Murray prevailed and now finds himself three wins away from becoming the fourth player to reach all four major finals in the same year.
Nishikori plays the victor of the match now underway between 21st-seeded Ivo Karlovic and 19-year-old American Jared Donaldson.
“I just have to serve well”.
Having regained the break to level the third at 3-3, Halep was unable to convert two break points in the eighth game.
Siegemund got one of the breaks back with help from a Williams forehand error. But before they can match up against each other in the semifinals, they must win first their next two matches.
Thiem, a 23-year-old Austrian, is considered one of the game’s top young players.
In the one hour it took to subdue Larsson, Williams again appeared untroubled by the shoulder injury that has slowed her since her Wimbledon triumph.
Venus will meet big-serving, 10th-seeded Czech Karolina Pliskova in the last 16. Their upcoming US Open match will be just the second ever for Venus Williams and the 2016 Western & Southern Open champion have a 1-0 record in favor of the American. Murray joins Kyle Edmund – who won Friday to set up a match against No. 1 Novak Djokovic – to give Britain two men in the round of 16 at the American Grand Slam tournament for the first time since 1966, when it was known as the U.S. Championships.
Radwanska, who can go top of the WTA standings if she makes the final and Angelique Kerber fails to reach the fourth round, benefitted from Garcia’s error-riddled performance as the Frenchwoman tallied 34 unforced errors in 70 minutes.
Williams dominated Sweden s Johanna Larsson 6-2, 6-1.
Serena and Venus Williams, the sisters with 29 grand slams and a stack of records between them, will try to maintain a collision course at the U.S. Open on Monday when they play their fourth-round matches.
Simona Halep and Carla Suarez Navarro set up a fourth-round meeting when a shaky Halep struggled past Hungary’s Timea Babos 6-1, 2-6, 6-4, and Suarez Navarro beat Russian Elena Vesnina 6-4, 6-3.
Croatian teenager Konjuh, 18, also achieved the feat.
Third seed Stan Wawrinka, sixth seed Kei Nishikori and women’s fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska are also in fourth-round action. The 21-year-old said that his hip was troubling him from the start of the tournament.
She might come wearing a cape.
Her best result was a quarterfinal run in 2013, losing to eventual champion Serena Williams.
“(Saturday) was a more straightforward win, but not ideal”, the No. 6-seeded Williams said.
Serena Williams is Tiger Woods in a tennis skirt.
Williams will push for win number 308 when she plays Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova on Tuesday.
So it was quite the reversal when he won four times in the same event at Cincinnati shortly before arriving at the U.S. Open.
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As in the majority of her victories at the majors, Williams operated with ruthless efficiency but displayed little fire as she coolly dispatched the 47th-ranked Swede in exactly one hour.
