Serena charms Flushing Meadows followers – Muricas News

In a festive ambiance worthy of her triumphant profession, veteran American Serena Williams reached the second spherical of the Flushing Meadows Championship, the final of the 4 main tennis tournaments, by defeating Montenegrin Danka Kovinic 6-3 6-3, whereas Greek fourth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas bid farewell early by his sudden fall in entrance of Colombian participant obscure.

And the American, who received 23 titles and is looking for to equal the report within the huge titles recorded within the title of Australian Margaret Courtroom, faces a tough check within the subsequent spherical, the place he meets the Estonian Annette Kontaveit, ranked second on this planet.

Serena, 40, whose participation in Flushing Meadows will doubtless be the final in her victorious profession, obtained unparalleled public assist, and a crowd of sports activities and movie stars watched her match, offered by boxer Mike Tyson, tennis legend Martina Navratilova, and the well-known American director Spike Lee.

“I all the time do my greatest,” Serena mentioned. And right here I really feel comfy, the gang was nice and helped me lots.”

When requested about her statements she made in early August about her everlasting retirement from enjoying and her future tasks, Serena answered within the press convention that adopted the match, “You remained imprecise relating to this situation, proper? I need to keep that approach as a result of we will’t predict something.”

Tunisian Anas Jaber, ranked fifth on this planet, reached the second spherical by defeating American Madison Pringle 7-5, 6-2 regardless of dropping her serve 4 occasions throughout the match.

Romania’s Simona Halep, ranked seventh on this planet, went out within the first spherical, dropping to Ukraine’s Daria Snigor (seeded 124) 2-6, 6-0, 4-6. Within the males’s, the unknown Colombian and qualifier Daniel Elahi Galan of Greece, fourth-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas, defeated him 6-0, 6-1, 3-6, 7-5 within the first spherical.

The defending champion and world primary, Russian Daniil Medvedev, certified simply to the second spherical by defeating American Stefan Kozlov (111) 6-2, 6-4, 6-0.

However, Scottish Andy Murray beat Argentine Francisco Cerondolo 7-5, 6-3, 6-3.