In new York the last season tournament series Grand slam.
Angelique Kerber is now one step closer to the status of the first racket of the world German in the third round in only 57 minutes defeated Catherine Bellis, and for the quarter-finals of the US Open championship Kerber will compete with Czech Petra Kvitova, who did not lose three games in a single set.
The finalist of the US Open in 2015 Roberta Vinci almost ran into serious problems in the match with Karina Witthoeft, strikingly similar to the disqualified Russian Maria Sharapova. In the second set, Vinci was one ball away from a triple match ball, but completely botched the ending of the set and put the squeeze on a rival only in the final set.
In the 1/8 final broke two-time US Open finalist Caroline Wozniacki, Madison keys, and the first racket of Britain’s Johanna konta.
The results of the matches of the third round:
Monica Niculescu (Romania) – Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) – 3:6, 1:6
Robert Vinci (Italy, 7) – Karina Witthoeft (Germany) – 6:0, 5:7, 6:3
Madison keys (USA, 8) – Naomi Osaka (Japan) — 7:5, 4:6, 7:6 (3)
Johanna Konta (Britain, 13) – Belinda Bencic (Switzerland, 24) — 6:2, 6:1
Catherine Bellis (USA) – Angelique Kerber (Germany, 2) — 1:6, 1:6
