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US Open: Radwanska ease into second round
AGENCIES | Issue Dated: January 1, 1970, New York
Tags : Agnieszka Radwanska | Angelique Kerber | Venus Williams | US Open |
Tags : Agnieszka Radwanska | Angelique Kerber | Venus Williams | US Open |
Wimbledon runner-up Agnieszka Radwanska, sixth-seeded German Angelique Kerber and two-time champion Venus Williams all took easy victories to reach the second round of the US Open tennis tournament here.
Poland's Radwanska thrashed Russian Nina Bratchikova 6-1, 6-1 in 54 minutes. The 23-year-old Polish converted on six-of-seven break-point chances against the US Open debutante Tuesday.
Radwanska will next meet Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro.
The left-handed Kerber routed Britain's Anne Keothavong 6-2, 6-0. The in-form German will next face Venus, who beat fellow American Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-3, 6-1.
Venus captured back-to-back US Open titles in 2000 and 2001 and was the runner-up in 1997 and 2002.
Former World No.1 Ana Ivanovic also advanced with a 6-3, 6-2 thrashing of Ukrainian Elina Svitolina.
Italian Roberta Vinci swept past Radwanska's younger sister Urszula 6-1, 6-1, while 30th-seeded Jelena Jankovic beat Ukrainian Kateryna Bondarenko 6-1, 6-2. Jankovic was the US Open runner-up in 2008.
Andrea Hlavackova knocked out 24th-seeded fellow Czech Klara Zakopalova 6-4, 6-4, while Japan's Ayumi Morita dismissed 26th-seeded Romanian Monica Niculescu 6-3, 6-3, and Russian Elena Vesnina upset 32nd-seeded Chinese Peng Shuai 7-6 (5), 6-1.
Also advancing at the final major of the year were Suarez Navarro, Russians Vera Dushevina and Ekaterina Makarova, Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova, Aussie Johanna Konta, Kazakhstan's Galina Voskoboeva and Yaroslava Shvedova, Swede Sofia Arvidsson, Spaniard Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino and Serb Bojana Jovanovski.
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
