She said some days she didn't enjoy tennis and didn't even want to get out of bed. Sakkari reached two Grand Slam semifinals last year, but she has had a difficult time backing up her success in 2022, acknowledging this week that she struggled to handle a higher profile that came with her rise to No.
on Thursday.Īndreescu, a 22-year-old Canadian, used to be ranked as high as fourth, but she is now 48th and so is unseeded in New York. 15 seed Beatriz Haddad Maia 6-2, 6-4 in a match that began after 11:30 ET on Wednesday night and finished after 1 a.m. That left Bianca Andreescu, who beat Williams in the 2019 final, as the most recent US Open women's champion still in the field.Īndreescu moved into the third round by defeating No. Raducanu and two-time winner Naomi Osaka were eliminated Tuesday night in the first round.
'A little left in me': Serena advances at US Open. "It's hard to get to the highest level, but it's so easy to get back down, and that's what happening right now," Fernandez said. She would have played Williams if both reached the fourth round but knew that would be difficult, estimating her game was only about 30 percent. 14 Leylah Fernandez was knocked off 6-3, 7-6 (3) by Liudmila Samsonova, a year after the Canadian lost to Emma Raducanu in the final.įernandez only recently returned to action after missing much of the summer with a stress fracture in her right foot. Then, minutes after Williams' victory, No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit, third-seeded Maria Sakkari was ousted 3-6, 7-5, 7-5 by Wang Xiyu of China in the second round. Top players are falling fast in Flushing Meadows, and Serena Williams took care of another one Wednesday night. NEW YORK - The past two women's champions were already out of the US Open, and now the 2021 runner-up and another semifinalist are gone.
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