Serena Williams booked a spot within the quarter-finals of the US Open on Monday with a hard-fought, three-set win over 15th seed Maria Sakkari. Williams required 2hr 28min to defeat the 25-year-old Greek participant 6-Three, 6-7 (6/eight), 6-Three inside an empty Arthur Ashe Stadium at Flushing Meadows. Williams, the event’s third seed, will play both Bulgaria’s Tsvetana Pironkova or France’s Alize Cornet, each of whom are unseeded, for a spot within the semi-finals.
Williams is looking for a 24th Slam that might equal Margaret Court docket’s report for probably the most girls’s Grand Slam singles titles.
It has been greater than three years since Williams gained her 23rd Grand Slam title on the 2017 Australian Open — when she was already pregnant with daughter Olympia.
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The 38-year-old has come shut since, reaching 4 main finals solely to come back away empty handed.
A event victory on the weekend would additionally see her break free from Chris Evert, on six titles, as probably the most embellished US Open champion of the ladies’s sport within the trendy period.
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