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From the start of the tournament, when the seeds were scattered to the winds, we wondered what surprises would New York throw at us.
Victoria Azarenka coasted through once more into the quarter-finals of the US Open, as she ended USA’s Varvara Lepchenko’s hopes in a challenge of the fist-pumping ‘c’monnnnns’.
The crowds on the impressive Ashe Stadium had a bit of a treat. No… a lot of a treat, with the existing men’s champion continuing his defence, before Williams major and minor took to the court… ah ah ah, but not together!
We said it could be Williams’ toughest test, under the lights on Ashe – and we were right. Mattek-Sands wasted no time in announcing her intention, running out three games on the trot as Williams once again had a sluggish start.
The lack of preparation and niggling injuries as we approach the last few months of the season yet again takes its toll, as Caroline Wozniacki was bundled out of the tournament.
Can I take a moment just to say what a relief it is to have the first round done and dusted in two days?
Starting off Day 3 was Madison Keys, playing on Arthur Ashe for the first time. Fair to say there were no nerves as she dominated Tereza Smitkova in the first set.
Madison Keys kicks off the day’s action on Ashe and buoyed by her first round win, we think she should handle Tereza Smitkova.
Talk about if you blinked, you’d miss it. It took just eight games, count them… EIGHT, for Serena Williams to start her journey to carve another notch in history’s bedpost!
Cometh the starting hour, cometh the shocks, so it is written…. somewhere, I’m sure. Ana Ivanovic was the first big shock of the day, as her opener on Ashe ended in a nightmare at the hands of last year’s Australian Open finalist Dominika Cibulkova
After a bunch of scattered seeds, we feel like a veritable plough, raking over the rest of the Round 1 matches.
The summer of discontent in the US continues for the World No. 3 Maria Sharapova after she was forced to withdraw from the US Open for just the second time in her career.
Will Serena achieve a Grand Slam, winning all four majors in the same year, or will WTA Rising Star Belinda Bencic, or Maria Sharapova trip her at the final hurdle?
World No. 1 Serena Williams cemented her position as the top seed for the US Open where she is chasing a career slam, after she successfully defended her title at the Western and Southern Open as the annual lottery looms on Thursday.
It is fair to say it has been an up and down tournament for Williams, rarely looking happy with her performance, and at times on Sunday looking like she was in pain as Simona Halep showed us once more what she can do.
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