World number one Serena Williams broke yet another record at the U.S. Open Saturday afternoon, storming past Sweden’s Johanna Larsson 6-2, 6-1 to claim an Open Era record 307th Grand Slam victory, surpassing Martina Navratilova’s all-time record of 306.
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“The further in the draw she is coming, the more players have also played her more often, so they know a little bit more what to expect and have probably played on the Center Court with this surface”.
Much the way Woods did en route to winning 65 tournaments (including 14 major championships) in the first 11 years of his career, your eyes glaze over at the mind-boggling numbers Williams continues to stack – one on top of another.
The six-time US Open champion, whose number one ranking is under threat, next faces Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova, a 6-2 7-5 victor over China’s Zhang Shuai.
Venus Williams has moved within two wins of a possible sisterly showdown with Serena in the semi-finals of the US Open by beating German 26th seed Laura Siegemund to reach the fourth round. “I think it’s most players’ mentality, too”.
“It definitely feels solid”, Williams said of her shoulder. Serena informed media wing that ” I am feeling good and I am doing a lot of work to keep it up.
Monday’s other fourth-round women’s matchups will be Williams’ older sister Venus vs.
Thiem blasted 47 winners, 20 in the last set, on his way to a 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 7-5 victory over 39th-ranked Pablo Carreno Busta.
From match point, the third-seeded Wawrinka fought his way back in the game despite suffering an ankle injury during the game to win 4-6, 6-3, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (8), 6-2. The third and fourth sets were comfortable.
Wawrinka next faces 63rd-ranked Ukrainian Illya Marchenko, who advanced when a hurting Nick Kyrgios, hobbled by a painful right hip, retired while trailing 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.
There’s only one American man left: Jack Sock, who faces No. 9 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on Sunday.
He previously reached the fourth round at the US Open in 2014. The Argentinian thrashed David Ferrer 7-6 (7) 6-2 6-3 to register a place in the round of 16.
Serena Williams versus Venus Williams could happen in the semifinals of the 2016 US Open in Flushing Meadows, New York.
The sixth seed, who is now 11-1 against Frenchman this year, lost the first set on the back of a lone break, but then proceeded to win 18 of the next 23 games to ease to victory.
“She’s unsafe”, Mouratoglou said. “I expected long rallies”, he said after the match.
America loves underdogs, which is what is what made it sometimes hard to root for Woods and makes it hard for us to embrace Williams – because she is bigger, stronger and more talented than pretty much everyone she plays.
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“To be up there with both men and women is something that’s super rare, and it actually feels really good”, she added. “Like a really powerful, strong character that is strong, but yet isn’t afraid to be soft at the same time”.
