Top seed Serena Williams outclassed Sloane
Stephens to reach the quarter-finals of the US
Open in an all-American clash on the Arthur
Ashe Stadium.
Stephens Congratulates Williams at the Net.
The defending champion scaled through her
20-year-old opponent 6-4, 6-1 and will face
Spanish 18th seed Carla Suarez Navarro in the
next round. “The quality was great,” said Williams.
Sloane’s a great player. “It was a fourth round match, but it definitely
had feelings more of a quarter-final or a semi-
final match.” Sloane, who won Williams at the US Open in
January, found it difficult to withstand an early
pressure from the four-time champion. There were occasional signs of nerves from
Williams as the French Open winner double
faulted three times in game seven and failed
to convert another break point, pegged down
to 4-4. Two set points came and went before the
16th seed yielded, sending a forehand flying
out to give up the first set with her 21st
unforced error of the afternoon. Williams escaped and early break point in the
second, with a forehand, and Stephens’
double fault at 2-1 placed the world number
one in the ascendancy. A fourth break of serve followed as Williams
powered through to the quarter-finals after
one hour and 27 minutes. “It’s definitely difficult playing people that you
like, that you always want to see do well,” said
Williams. “But you have to go out there and kind of put
that to the side and realise, I want to do well
myself and take every point as it comes.”
Stephens to reach the quarter-finals of the US
Open in an all-American clash on the Arthur
Ashe Stadium.
Stephens Congratulates Williams at the Net.
The defending champion scaled through her
20-year-old opponent 6-4, 6-1 and will face
Spanish 18th seed Carla Suarez Navarro in the
next round. “The quality was great,” said Williams.
Sloane’s a great player. “It was a fourth round match, but it definitely
had feelings more of a quarter-final or a semi-
final match.” Sloane, who won Williams at the US Open in
January, found it difficult to withstand an early
pressure from the four-time champion. There were occasional signs of nerves from
Williams as the French Open winner double
faulted three times in game seven and failed
to convert another break point, pegged down
to 4-4. Two set points came and went before the
16th seed yielded, sending a forehand flying
out to give up the first set with her 21st
unforced error of the afternoon. Williams escaped and early break point in the
second, with a forehand, and Stephens’
double fault at 2-1 placed the world number
one in the ascendancy. A fourth break of serve followed as Williams
powered through to the quarter-finals after
one hour and 27 minutes. “It’s definitely difficult playing people that you
like, that you always want to see do well,” said
Williams. “But you have to go out there and kind of put
that to the side and realise, I want to do well
myself and take every point as it comes.”
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