US Open: Williams Sisters could meet in third round
Tennis | August 24, 2018 9:50 ISTIf the sisters do play each other, the winner might face no. 1 ranked Simona Halep in the fourth round.
If the sisters do play each other, the winner might face no. 1 ranked Simona Halep in the fourth round.
Federer and Williams were making their first appearance at the tournament since they each won the title in 2015. Williams opened with a straight-set victory against Daria Gavrilova.
Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam winner who returned to the tour this year after the birth of her first child, needed just 65 minutes to dispatch Gavrilova.
The 36-year-old, talked about in length what she has been going through since giving birth to her daughter, Alexis Olympia, who turns one this September.
Williams had moments of brilliant shot-making to win long rallies, then would put a drop shot into the net and sigh in disappointment.
Williams has complained before at being drug-tested more than other American tennis players this year.
The Rogers Cup is a tuneup for the US Open. Williams last played it in 2014, when she reached the semifinals. She won the event three times when it was played in Toronto.
Germany's Angelique Kerber kept world No.4, after having claimed the spot a week earlier thanks to her first-ever Wimbledon title victory.
This comes after Williams lost at the Wimbledon final to Germany's Angelique Kerber.
Angelique Kerber won her first Wimbledon championship by stopping Serena Williams' bid for a record-equaling 24th Grand Slam title.
Williams will face 11th-seeded Angelique Kerber, on Saturday in a rematch of the 2016 final at Wimbledon.
Serena Williams defeated Camila Giorgi of Italy 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to march into the Wimbeldon 2018 semis.
Serena Williams faces 14th-seeded Daria Kasatkina, just two weeks after beating the Russian in a third-set tiebreaker on the grass courts of Eastbourne, tying their head-to-head record at 3-3.
Roger Federer, Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal have reached the quarter-finals of Wimbledon.
Williams reached her 13th Wimbledon quarter-final by beating Russian qualifier Evgeniya Rodina 6-4, 6-2 on Monday.
With the win, Bertens also got revenge for a narrow 5-7, 6-3, 7-5 loss to the 38-year-old veteran earlier this year in Miami.
Suddenly "Miss Williams" has become "Mrs. Williams" in the words of chair umpires.
Roger Federer and Serena Williams are making it look easy at Wimbledon — again. Caroline Wozniacki is heading home early — again.
Serena Williams has been checked five times in 2018 by June, more than other U.S. women and men in the sport.
Williams is returning to the grass-court tournament for the first time since 2016 after missing it last year while pregnant.
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