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NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local):
Serena
Williams is gone from the U.S. Open, but the show must go on.
The third
round is scheduled to wrap up Saturday at Flushing Meadows, with Grand Slam
champions such as Rafael Nadal and Iga Swiatek in action at night.
Two other
owners of multiple major titles will get things started in the morning in Louis
Armstrong Stadium when Garbiñe Muguruza faces Petra Kvitova.
On Friday
night, Williams — by far the biggest star of Week 1 at the year’s last Grand
Slam tournament — lost what is expected to be the last match of her career.
Ajla Tomljanovic beat her 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-1 in front of a loud sellout crowd in
Arthur Ashe Stadium.
The first
match in Ashe on Saturday is due to begin at noon EDT, with No. 8 seed Jessica
Pegula of the U.S. up against Yuan Yue of China.
They’ll be
followed by No. 3 seed Carlos Alcaraz, who is 19, against unseeded American
Jenson Brooksby, who is 21.
At night,
Nadal takes a 17-0 head-to-head record into his matchup against Richard Gasquet
in Ashe, while the top-ranked Swiatek meets American Lauren Davis in Armstrong.
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