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So was his left thigh. Afterward, his back seized up when he tried to sling his equipment bag over a shoulder. Or to serve: That’s normally his most effective stroke, yet he double-faulted 15 times.

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“I’m very, very disappointed right now”, said 23-year-old Vesely. “I started getting small (cramps) where I couldn’t hold the racket”.

“It was an unfortunate time as I had my momentum going”.

She lost in the finals at Flushing Meadows in 2009 and 2014. And third-seeded Garbine Muguruza, who won the French Open, faces Anastasija Sevastova.

Angelique Kerber, of Germany, returns a shot to Polona Hercog, of Slovenia, during the first round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Monday, Aug. 29, 2016, in NY.

Djokovic sent for the trainer only five games into the defence of his title and received lengthy treatment on his upper right arm and elbow.

Nadal’s afternoon match was played with the new $150 million retractable roof open under a blue sky, while offering some extra shade on a day when the temperature reached 90 degrees. With the cover shut, the most noticeable difference was all of the crowd chatter that could be heard during points.

The pair famously played the longest women’s match of all time at the 2011 Australian Open where Schiavone saved six match points in a four hour 44-minute marathon. “We should all know how to watch the ball; if we don’t, then we’ve got a problem”.

“I stopped looking at the world rankings when I dropped out of the top 10”, said Wozniacki who next plays Romania’s Monica Niculescu. “My body didn’t let me”.

It has been a rocky summer for the world No1, who admitted last week that he had been dealing with a personal issue at Wimbledon, where he suffered his earliest defeat at a Grand Slam tournament for seven years when he lost in the third round to Sam Querrey. He had been 0-6 in second-round matches.

The 89th-ranked Allertova improved to 7-1 in first-round matches in majors, making her second main-draw appearance at the Open.

No. 1 Djokovic and No. 4 Nadal both won their first-round matches on Monday and are drawn to meet one another in the semifinals, yet both are battling left wrist injuries that could keep them from playing their best, especially across the two-week grind of a Grand Slam event. “My personality is a very fiery one”.

“To be honest, I take it day by day”.

Now he’s the highest-seeded player to exit the U.S. Open so far.

Vying to become the fourth man in the Open Era to reach all four major finals in a calendar year, Murray, too, produced a dominant service performance in a 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Czech Lukas Rosol.

“Good thing for Ryan”. The almost four hours on court that day certainly didn’t help, Vesely added.

“I didn’t create this pressure for myself or this kind of stress on myself”, Raonic acknowledged.

After Harrison hit a cross-court forehand passing victor to break for a 5-1 lead in the fourth set, Raonic looked exhausted, resting both arms on his knees behind the baseline and leaning on his racket for extra support.

Harrison next faces 44th-ranked Marcos Baghdatis, the 2006 Australian Open runner-up.

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Keys, seeded eighth, beat her fellow American 4-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-2 in two hours and 25 minutes. “That’s not really something that you can worry about or control”.

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