Serena Williams breaks grand slam record with Johanna Larsson win

The world number one moved ahead of Martina Navratilova for most match wins in a major by a woman, and tied Roger Federer’s mark for men with a 6-2 6-1 victory over Sweden’s Johanna Larsson. “To be up there with both men and women is something that’s super rare”. “I was really excited to (sic) 307”. I was really excited to do that. Something I didn’t even know about until Wimbledon.

“I was like, ‘Oh, I have a new goal!’ That was pretty cool for me”.

Williams will go for win number 308 on Tuesday (AEST) when she meets Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova – a 6-2, 7-5 victor over China’s Zhang Shuai – in round four.

She was surprised by the variety Williams displayed Saturday, especially with some heavy-spin, high-bouncing strokes.

Venus Williams, a seven-times grand slam singles victor and twice U.S. Open champion, has enjoyed some recent success, reaching the semi-finals at Wimbledon and the final at Stanford. She believes in herself.

“[My shoulder] definitely feels solid”. Konta, who had fainted in her match against Tsvetana Pironkova on Wednesday, shared in a press conference that she has been doing well. “I made inquiries to the heart and everything is flawless. That’s where I want to be every single time”. But I worked it out, won, got through, and I didn’t play good.

Wawrinka next faces 63rd-ranked Ukrainian Illya Marchenko, who advanced when a hurting Nick Kyrgios, hobbled by a painful right hip, retired while trailing 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.

A Williams victory would keep her at the top of the pile and see her beat Graf’s record of 186 consecutive weeks at No. 1.

Venus Williams starts the third round match with back-to-back wins for a 2-0 lead over Laura Siegemund.

Ominously for the rest of the players left in the tournament, Williams thinks she can still step up a level.

Venus Williams knows perfection is impossible, but she is constantly striving for it, her way of never being satisfied no matter how well she may be performing on the court.

Wawrinka, a two-time Grand Slam victor and twice a semi-finalist in NY, had the closest call, saving a match point in a 4-6, 6-3, 6-7 (6/8), 7-6 (10/8), 6-2 victory over Britain’s Dan Evans.

Sixth-seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan, two years removed from his run to the final, rallied for a 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 win over Frances Nicolas Mahut.

That sounds like bad news for upcoming opponents, starting with 52nd-ranked Yaroslava Shvedova, who advanced to the round of 16 in NY for the first time by beating Zhang Shuai 6-2, 7-5.

Radwanska eased into the fourth round with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over France s Caroline Garcia.

This was Williams” first daytime match of the U.S. Open, so she debuted a new outfit – a white dress accessorized with neon pink compression wraps on her arms, which she called “my “Wonder Woman’ sleeves”.

As in her second-round upset of third-seeded Garbine Muguruza, Sevastova wobbled under the pressure at first, failing to serve out the match.