Halep, the 2014 French Open runner-up, will be the first seeded player faced by Williams in this tournament, which she is attempting to win for the seventh time.
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Quarter-final: Kerber bt Vinci 7-5 6-0.
With so much at stake, Kerber has been looking tense all summer.
However, the 2009 US Open champion is playing well above that ranking, as evidenced by the silver medal in Rio that earned him a wild card invitation to the final Grand Slam of the year.
“Obviously, I have to say it again: I really wish Jo a quick recovery”. “I prefer the words ‘one of the greatest athletes of all time, ‘” Williams said.
“I’m trying to improve my mental side because I know I have to stay focused on my game, trying to be here in this moment and not thinking about what has happened before”.
After Williams won her next match with another strong showing to reach the quarterfinals, she was asked whether she felt any differently about things. “I’m going to just keep serving”.
Serena Williams polished off Yaroslava Shvedova 6-2, 6-3 for her 308th match victory in Grand Slam singles events.
Kerber claimed the decisive break to win the set when Vinci was called for a foot-fault on her second serve before sarcastically applauding the line judge as she walked off the court. And the man Djokovic was supposed to play in the third round, Mikhail Youzhny, quit after six games because of a strained left hamstring.
The 18-year-old, who has made it past the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time, next faces 10th-seeded Czech Karolina Pliskova, a 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/3) victor over Venus Williams.
Pliskova managed, just barely, to make it to her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at age 24. She regained the standing, for the sixth time, in February 2013. He never had won a U.S. Open match or any match that lasted five sets until last week; his 4-hour-plus win against Nadal on Sunday was his third five-setter in a row.
“This is where it all started so it s always so magical out here for me – 308 sounds pretty good”.
Her quarterfinal opponent will be fifth-seeded Simona Halep, who advanced to the quarterfinals for the second straight year with a 6-2, 7-5 victory over 11th-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro. Everyone I’m playing is playing like they’re No. 1.
Konjuh, who is 18 and ranked 92nd, had never been past the third round at a major until this tournament.
Top-seeded Serena Williams cruised into the quarterfinals at the U.S. Open on Monday, establishing another record in the process, but her sister, Venus Williams, was eliminated in a fourth-round match against Karolina Pliskova in which both players let match-point opportunities slip away in NY. They were set to meet in last year’s U.S. Open final before both getting upset in respective semifinals.
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Meanwhile, the top-seeded
