Top seeds Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams face tricky first round

Muguruza has the next best chance, though her way forward isn’t as simple as Kerber’s.

“One thing I learned about previous year is to enjoy the moment, ” Williams said.

Williams said she wanted to prepare more for the Open, “but there is nothing you can do about it and I am going to try to make the best of every single opportunity that I have to play”.

A serious knee injury has limited Janowicz to just six matches all year and seen his world ranking collapse to 228.

“But I thought she’d win Wimbledon and she did”.

Earlier in the tournament, Williams could run into opponents who have eliminated her at past majors.

In the three-and-a-half years since, the 34-year-old from MI via Florida has comprehensively rewritten the history books, amassing sums equivalent to the GDP of a small European country.

“(It’s) Serena and the rest of the field”, she said, laughing. “I didn’t think she’d win the Australian because of having a four-month layoff going into that”. You do have to get your timing right. “Seventy-five percent of the time in the match, you are not hitting a ball”.

“The shoulder is still not 100 per cent but it’s very close and she will find a way”.

Her older sister Lauren graduated from North Carolina, where she played tennis for the Tar Heels. She’s coached by Jorge Todero, who has guided her the last five years.

“However, he has not won as many grand slams as he would have liked since 2013”.

“He’s gotten me to use my forehand more”, McHale said of the Argentine.

The stakes and atmosphere were rather different from her previous two appearances in the tournament’s main arena, which now features a retractable roof that provides extra shade even while open, as it was Monday, with the sky blue and the temperature at 90 degrees.

Federer, who won five of his mens record 17 Grand Slam titles in NY, will be sitting out the U.S. Open for the first time since 1999 as he takes the rest of the season off to let his left knee heal.

Her serve, so often problematic in her career, was far more consistent against Maria, delivering 65 per cent at the first attempt and producing only four double faults.

After Wimbledon, McHale upset eighth-seeded Monica Niculescu at the Citi Open in Washington in mid-July.

Those sorts of thoughts helped Vinci when she got into a bit of a second-set rut against Friedsam, who eliminated her at this year’s Australian Open.

The injury caused her to withdraw from the Rogers Cup as well as the Western & Southern Open. Rafael Nadal, of Spain, speaks during a media availability for the U.S. Open at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, in NY. Next up is Barthel, who she beat in matchups in Seoul in 2014 and Madrid in 2015.

“She has been pain-free for a few days now”, Mouratoglou told ESPN.

But after seeing a frustrating year go by between her 21st Grand Slam win and No. 22, Williams said she’d learned to let history take care of itself.