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Serena Williams, of the United States, returns a shot to Ajla Tomljanovic, of Australia, during the third round of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, in New York. 10:30 p.m.Williams was eliminated in the third round by Ajla Tomljanovic 7-5, 6-7 , 6-1 on Friday.
Garcia has won 11 straight matches, including the title last month in Cincinnati. She was ranked as low as No. 79 earlier in the summer. In what could be the final tournament of her career, Williams will need to win a three-setter for the second straight match. She went the distance to eliminate No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit on Wednesday.Serena Williams has lost the first set of her third-round match against Ajla Tomljanovic.
The No. 12 seed was broken to open the match, but broke right back against the 2017 U.S. Open runner-up in a lengthy second game en route to a 4-1 lead and was never really threatened.Martina Navratilova saw a clip of Serena Williams practicing before her second match and noticed her movement appeared to be improved.“I was like, ‘Ooh, Serena is back,’” Navratilova said. “So yeah, I think sky is the limit for her now. I wouldn’t put it past her to win the whole thing.
“Tennis is a sport that it takes a long time to not be horrible so there’s really no shortcuts,” she said, “but this thing is a small shortcut, really.”Matteo Berrettini ended Andy Murray's bid to return to the fourth round of a major, beating the three-time Grand Slam champion 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 , 6-3. It's the first trip to the final 16 in Flushing Meadows for the Wimbledon runner-up, who lost in the third round each of the last three years.
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