Venus Williams edges Petra Kvitova for first US Open semifinal since 2010
September 06, 2017 12:03 ISTVenus Williams defeated two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (2) on Tuesday night at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Venus Williams defeated two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (2) on Tuesday night at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Rohan Bopanna and his Canadian partner Gabriela Dabrowski lost 6-4, 3-6, 8-10 to New Zealand-Chinese pair of Hao-Ching Chan and Michael Venus.
Del Potro worked his way all the way back on the strength of powerful serves and thunderous forehands to edge Thiem 1-6, 2-6, 6-1, 7-6 (1), 6-4 and set up a quarterfinal showdown against Roger Federer.
Roger Federer will face Juan Martin del Potro in the US Open 2017 quarter-finals.
Nadal will face the winner of the Round of 16 match between David Goffin and Andrey Rublev.
Paes and Raja, who joined forces recently, were knocked out of the men's doubles following a close 4-6 6-7(7) defeat.
Maria Sharapova lost in the fourth round of the U.S. Open to 16th-seeded Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia 5-7, 6-4, 6-2.
The 12-time Grand Slam champion has skipped the US Open and has opted to sit out the rest of the 2017 season because of an elbow injury.
Rafael Nadal will look to reach the quarter-finals in New York for the first time since 2013 when he faces Alexandr Dolgopolov.
Roger Federer recorded a 6-3, 6-3, 7-5 victory over 31st-seeded Feliciano Lopez in the third round at US Open.
The 18-year old Canadian became the youngest man to reach the U.S. Open's fourth round since Michael Chang in 1989.
Fognini, known as a volatile player, was fined $27,500 by Wimbledon in 2014 for his outbursts during a first-round victory.
The duo treated the crowd at the Arthur Ashe Stadium with an intruging battle, with Kenin rebounding strongly from a 1-4 deficit to keep within reach of causing the upset in the first set.
Veteran Paes and Raja thrashed Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic and Viktor Troicki 6-1, 6-3 at the Flushing Meadows.
The 23-time Grand Slam winner said last month she was planning to return to tennis for the Australian Open in January.
The Indo-Chinese pair of Sania Mirza and Shuai Peng will next face Slovakia's Jana Cepelova and Magdalena Rybarikova in the second round of US Open.
Maria Sharapova required a wild card to get into the tournament because of her low ranking and the U.S. Tennis Association was happy to provide it.
It is the first time Roger Federer has played five-setters in both the first and second rounds at a major tournament.
Alexander Zverev is the highest-ranked man to exit Flushing Meadows so far and what bothered him so much was not merely that he didn't play well but that there was a real opportunity for him to have a true Grand Slam breakthrough.
Nick Kyrgios called the series of health issues that have hampered him all year "diabolical."
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