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World No 26 Italian tennis star celebrates in her moment of triumph at the US Open. The Italian Pennetta announced her retirement from tennis minutes after defeating compatriot Roberta Vinci to win her first major silverware.

Meanwhile, Isner progressed to the fourth round after Jiri Vesely was forced to retire from the tournament.

Azarenka, a two-time Australian Open champion, has lost 17 games and will next meet 30th-seeded Belinda Bencic of Switzerland.

The match seemed all but done and dusted after Petra Kvitova wrapped up the first set in 29 minutes and solidified a break over her opponent in the second, just two holds of serve away from victory. “I don’t know how to explain it, but it’s a really big win for...

But with rackets in their hands, this has been a one-way street: Williams has won 17 of their 19 career meetings, including the past 16 in a row.

For about a week, anyway.

“It was like a 10-15 minute break. I only really feel it when I’m serving but it’s not something that’s of major concern to me”, said the Scot. “And my serve was pretty bad after that happened”.

But Russian eighth seed Ekaterina Makarova lost to Slovakian Magdalena Rybarikova, 6-2, 7-5.

However, after Seppi called for the trainer early in the third set, the Italian won five games on the spin to secure the third stanza.

Troicki neutralized the 102nd-ranked Brown’s serve-and-volley game and played better on the key points, winning 6-4, 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-3. Groth has never reached the fourth round of a grand slam in his career.

Ex- finalist Agnieszka Radwanska needed just 49 minutes to win her second-round match at Wimbledon on Thursday.

There were no reports of injuries, but firefighters were called to the scene.