Garcia knocks not here 2019 champ Andreescu | US Open updates
NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis competition (all times local):
9:50 p.m.
Caroline Garcia has knocked 2019 champion Bianca Andreescu not here of the U.S. Open.
The No. 17 seed from France continued her strong summer surge accompanied by a 6-3, 6-2 victory that moved her into the fourth round.
Garcia has won 11 unswerving matches, including the title last month inside Cincinnati. She was ranked while low while No. 79 earlier inside the summer.
Andreescu's mislaying left-hand Serena Williams while the most recent U.S. Open women's champion inside the field. She won the last of trio unswerving inside 2014.
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9:35 p.m.
Serena Williams has pushed her third-round match to a third set.
Williams needed a tiebreaker that she eventually won 7-4 on her fifth place point. She with every one other accompanied by Ajla Tomljanovic will start the decisive place having played additional than 2 hours, 15 minutes.
Williams bounced spine from her disappointing extremity to the earliest set, winning the earliest quartet games of the following with every one other accompanied by racing to a 5-2 lead. But Tomljanovic erased that, fair while she erased a 5-3 shortfall inside the earliest set, which she won 7-5.
In what could exist the final competition of her career, Williams will need to come first in a three-setter for the following unswerving match. She went the distance to remove No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit on Wednesday.
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8:10 p.m.
Serena Williams has lost the earliest place of her third-round match opposed to Ajla Tomljanovic.
Williams had a 5-3 lead with every one other accompanied by was serving to come first in the set. But Tomljanovic broke her work for to start a sprint of quartet unswerving games that allowed the Australian to lay clasp of it 7-5.
Williams had to go trio sets to hit No. 1 Anett Kontaveit inside the following round.
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7:20 p.m.
Serena Williams has begun her provide to become the oldest woman to stretch not here the fourth circular of a Grand Slam competition inside the professional era.
It's the third darkness match of the week for the 23-time Grand Slam champion, who is preparing to extremity her tennis career.
With a come first in over Australian Ajla Tomljanovic, Williams will retain it going until at least Sunday.
Williams will turn 41 subsequent this month. Three women since 1968 were older when they reached the third circular of a major, nevertheless none advanced.
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5:50 p.m.
Coco Gauff rolled into and not here of her match opposed to fellow American Madison Keys, winning 6-2, 6-3 to stretch not here the fourth round.
The No. 12 seed was broken to not shut the match, nevertheless broke just spine opposed to the 2017 U.S. Open runner-up inside a lengthy following game en way to a 4-1 lead with every one other accompanied by was never really threatened.
The 18-year-old state-of-the-art to face China's Zhang Shuai.
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5:25 p.m.
Martina Navratilova saw a clip of Serena Williams practicing earlier to her following match with every one other accompanied by noticed her movement appeared to exist improved.
The Hall of Famer straight away had one thought.
"I was like, 'Ooh, Serena is back,'" Navratilova said. "So yeah, I believe sky is the boundary for her now. I wouldn't place it past her to come first in the whole thing."
Williams plays her third-round match Friday darkness opposed to Ajla Tomljanovic.
Footwork is one of the areas Navratilova says tin exist improved into and not here of Sense Arena's virtual the real world tennis training program that launches following month. It allows players to do drills such while returning work for with every one other accompanied by volleying, while swinging a racket that gives a similar be in touch of a real one, lacking the chance of wound from repeatedly hitting balls or running on firm courts.
Sense Arena has a hockey program used by five NHL with every one other accompanied by nine NCAA Division teams. CEO Bob Tetiva said having mastered the sway technology used inside hockey made it natural to add tennis. The company, based inside the Czech Republic, added Navratilova to its tennis advisory board.
The 59-time Grand Slam champion said she "whiffed" accompanied by her earliest few swings, nevertheless fast got good with every one other accompanied by saw the benefits of actuality intelligent to practice indoors or accompanied by an wound that limits the ability to run.
"Tennis is a (competitive) game(s) that it takes a lengthy hour dated to not exist horrible so there's really no indeed shortcuts," she said, "but this thing is a small shortcut, really."
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4:15 p.m.
Matteo Berrettini ended Andy Murray's provide to return to the fourth circular of a major, beating the three-time Grand Slam champion 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (1), 6-3.
Murray, who won his earliest greatest at the U.S. Open inside 2012, hasn't reached the circular of 16 inside one of tennis' quartet biggest tournaments since Wimbledon inside 2017, when he was ranked No. 1. He subsequent required set of two hip surgeries that led to absences from the tour.
Berrettini, the No. 13 seed who was a U.S. Open semifinalist inside 2019, will face Alejandro Davidovich Fokina on Sunday.
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1:50 p.m.
Ons Jabeur made sure there will exist at least one top-five woman inside the fourth round.
The No. 5 seed rallied to hit No. 31 Shelby Rogers 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, avoiding the sort of upset that has filled the earliest week of amuse oneself at the U.S. Open.
It's the earliest trip to the final 16 inside Flushing Meadows for the Wimbledon runner-up, who lost inside the third circular every one of the last trio years.
Top-ranked Iga Swiatek is the only other top-five player who got not here of the following round. Serena Williams ousted No. 2 Anett Kontaveit, with every one other accompanied by No. 3 Maria Sakkari with every one other accompanied by No. 4 Paula Badosa too lost their following match.
Swiatek plays her third-round match Saturday.
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11:20 a.m.
Andy Murray leads off amuse oneself inside Arthur Ashe Stadium on Day 5 of the U.S. Open, trying to stretch not here the fourth circular of a Grand Slam for the earliest hour dated inside five years.
Serena Williams too has her eyes on a spot inside the last 16 when she continues what could exist her final competition Friday darkness opposed to Ajla Tomljanovic.
Murray was to face No. 13 Matteo Berrettini, accompanied by a victory sending the three-time Grand Slam champion into the fourth circular for the earliest hour dated since 2017 at Wimbledon. The 2012 U.S. Open winner will have to obtain by a past Grand Slam finalist inside Berrettini, who too got to the semifinals inside Flushing Meadows inside 2019.
Americans Coco Gauff with every one other accompanied by Madison Keys were place to go nearer behind them accompanied by a third-round match.
Top-ranked Daniil Medvedev plays at darkness opposed to Wu Yibing, who is trying to become the earliest Chinese male to stretch not here the fourth circular of a Grand Slam event since Kho Sin-Khie at Wimbledon inside 1938.
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