Serena Williams is in the hunt for a 24th Grand Slam title.© AFP
Serena Williams booked a spot inside 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 6-3, 6-7 (6/8), 6-Three inside an empty Arthur Ashe Stadium at Flushing Meadows. Williams, the match’s third seed, will play each Bulgaria’s Tsvetana Pironkova or France’s Alize Cornet, every of whom are unseeded, for a spot inside the semi-finals.
Williams is in the hunt for a 24th Slam that may equal Margaret Courtroom’s doc for in all probability essentially the most women’s Grand Slam singles titles.
It has been better than three years since Williams acquired 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 four predominant finals solely to return away empty handed.
A match victory on the weekend would moreover see her break away from Chris Evert, on six titles, as in all probability essentially the most embellished US Open champion of the women’s recreation inside the modern interval.
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