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Women’s tournament
Czech tennis player Karolina Plishkova, who was number one in the US Open, did not surpass the first round of the tournament on Wednesday.
The third racket of the planet Plīškova with the result 1-6, 6-7 (2: 7) gave way to the French Caroline Garcia, who is in the 50th position.
Pliskov is a finalist in the 2016 US Open, but Garcia has never gone further than the third round in New York. The French tennis player’s best achievement in “Grand Slam” tournaments is the quarter-finals of the 2017 “French Open”, in which she acknowledged Plīškov’s superiority.
Garcia will meet in the third round with the American Jennifer Brady, who WTA takes the 41st place in the rating, but the “US Open” is placed with the 28th number.
On the other hand, the victory was celebrated by the 12th place owner and the sixth racket of the tournament Petra Kvitova, the Czech with the result 7-6 (7: 3), 6-2 beating the Ukrainian Katerina Kozlova (WTA 99).
Kvitova is a two-time winner of the Wimbledon Championship, but the Czech Czech has never advanced to the quarterfinals. In the third round, she is expected to wrestle with US tennis player Jessica Pegula (WTA 63).
Like Plishkov, another Czech tennis player, Marketa Vondroushova, who failed in 19th place and received the 12th number in the US Open, failed. With 1-6, 2-6, she acknowledged the superiority of Alaksandr Sasnovich (WTA 106) from Belarus.
The third round was also achieved by the 2016 champion and the owner of three “Grand Slam” titles Angelika Kerbere from Germany, who received the 17th number in the tournament. The 23rd place tennis player defeated his compatriot Anna Lena Friedham (WTA 109) with 6-3, 7-6 (8: 6).
In the next round, Kerbere welcomed the American Anna Lee (WTA 128), who unexpectedly defeated her compatriot Elison Rice 6-0, 6-3, who is the 20th rocket on the planet and sown with the 13th number in the tournament.
The first round of the Baltic racket Anete Kontaveita (WTA 21st) will also play in the next round. The Estonian, sown with the 14th number, played the Slovenian Kaju Juvana (WTA 113) at 6-4, 6-1, but she will fight for the eighth final against the Polish Magda Lineti (WTA 37), who was sown with the 24th number.
The tournament is also continued by 2018 champion Naomi Osaka, who ranks ninth in the ranking, but was placed in fourth place in the tournament. In the second round, Osaka defeated Italian Camilla George (WTA 74) 6-1, 6-2. In the next round, she will fight the Ukrainian Martha Kostyuk (WTA 137), who stopped Anastasia Sevastova (WTA 45), who was numbered 31st.
Petra Martiča from Croatia (WTA 15), the eighth issue of the US Open, will also compete in the third round. She played Ukraine Katerina Bondarenko (WTA 349) 6-3, 6-4.
Meanwhile, the Russian Varvara Gračova (WTA 102) made an incredible play, who defeated the Frenchman Kristīna Mladenovič (WTA 44) with 1-6, 7-6 (7: 2), 6-0. Gračova was in the second set with 1-5, but later played four match balls, won the set in Taiwan and won the next with 6-0.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, several tennis stars will not be able to be seen in the US Open Championship, including Latvia’s first racket Alona Ostapenko. Several favorites withdrew from this year’s tournament, such as last year’s champion Bianka Andresco, Simon Halep, Ashley Barthy, Kiki Bertens, Elena Switolina and other high-level tennis players.
Men’s tournament
Novak Djokovic, the planet’s first racket in men’s tennis, reached the third round of the US Open Championship on Wednesday.
In the second round, Djokovic defeated British Kail Edmund 6-7 (5: 7), 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 (ATP 44.).
Serbian tennis player has won all 25 games this season. Djokovic has won three of his 17 Grand Slam titles in the United States. Last year, he stopped in the fourth round due to an injury.
In the next round, he will be confronted by the German Jan Lenard Strauf (ATP 29th), who is sown with the 28th issue. The two tennis players met last week at the Masters tournament in New York, where the German won only four games in the quarterfinals. His and Djokovic’s paths also intersected in the first round of this year’s Australian Open, in which Struf took away one set from his titled opponent.
Aleksandrs Zverevs from Germany, who is the seventh racket on the planet, also entered the fifth round of the tournament. He defeated 19-year-old California Brandon Nashashim (ATP 223) with 7-5, 6-7 (8:10), 6-3, 6-1.
Next, Zverev will meet with the Frenchman Adrian Mannarino, who is sown with the 32nd number, but in the ranking is 39th. In the second round, the Frenchman stopped Jack Sok, who has been traumatized in recent years (ATP 389).
The Greek Stephen Cicips, who was placed in the fourth issue, also reached the next round. The sixth place owner with 7-6 (7: 2), 6-3, 6-4 played against the Americans Maxim Cress (ATP 168). Meanwhile, the tenth number in the ranking and the seventh racket of the tournament Dāvis Gofēns from Belgium won the South African tennis player George Lloyd Harris (ATP 95) with 7-6 (8: 6), 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.
The tournament is also continued by the leading Lithuanian tennis player Richard Berkanis (ATP 65), who defeated the American Steve Johnson (ATP 64) with 7-5, 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (7: 1).
Due to an injury, the experienced Swiss Roger Federer does not start in the prestigious tournament, but the Spaniard Rafael Nadal, who triumphed at the US Open last year, also withdrew.
New York was one of the worst-hit U.S. cities in March and April, when the Covid-19 epidemic took over the United States. The temporary hospital was even set up on the indoor courts of the US Tennis Center.
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