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All Williams needed was two more wins to pull off that rare feat.

“You never want to lose the game but I saw enough in that day to know we had actually got our identity back“.

Ticket prices to the U.S. Open women’s singles final quickly tumbled after Serena Williams, bidding for a Grand Slam, was defeated by unseeded Italian Roberta Vinci in their semifinal match.

(CNN)His controversial on-court behavior has been criticized by fellow tennis professionals, and he was dumped out of the U.S. Open in the first round.

England captain Eoin Morgan has some thinking to do to overcome world No 1 Australia in the ODI series.

McCullum finished by cautioning England against getting too emotional about the matter, saying he regretted the Black Caps’ gleeful celebrations upon winning a game at The Oval off the last ball, after they were left fuming over Grant Elliott’s controversial run-out.

In the men’s doubles category, sixth seeded Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea prevailed over Polish-Mexican pair of Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Santiago Gonzalez 6-3, 7-6 (4) to enter the third round on Saturday.

The 34th-ranked Mayer had given the 17-time Grand Slam champion trouble in their only previous meeting, when Federer saved five match points to win in three sets in Shanghai past year. The 28-year-old Scot faces Frenchman Adrian Mannarino in round two on Thursday.

She leaned forward, yelled and shook both fists, victory almost hers.

“It’s tiring”, he said. “I think it worked”.

What England can still hope is for their last four wickets to carry on batting until the heavens open.

Rooney went on to complete his treble in the second half, before Ander Herrera rounded off the scoring as United secured their place in Thursday’s draw for the group stages with a 7-1 aggregate success.

He said that “Michael has been a mainstay in the Australia team during a very successful period in its history”.

Or would such a problem force him to consider retirement? Consequently he was running roughshod through the majors. He suffered a first-round loss to Chardy on the Australian Open, exclusively to bounce him in Portugal 4 months later.

There was a U.S. Open meltdown on Wednesday as tennis star CoCo Vandeweghe smashed her racket to shreds after a bad start to a match. For good measure, she put up her arms to the crowd, stood and wailed the racket a fifth time against the Louis Armstrong Stadium court.