(Reuters) – Highlights of the eighth day at the U.S. Open at Flushing Meadows on Sunday (times GMT): 0130 SABALENKA CRUSHES BUCSA, DJOKOVIC SETS UP FRITZ CLASH Belarusian top seed Aryna Sabalenka continued her title defence with a dominant 6-1 6-4 victory over Spain’s Cristina Bucsa. On the men’s side, four-times champion Novak Djokovic also […]
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(Reuters) – Highlights of the eighth day at the U.S. Open at Flushing Meadows on Sunday (times GMT):
0130 SABALENKA CRUSHES BUCSA, DJOKOVIC SETS UP FRITZ CLASH
Belarusian top seed Aryna Sabalenka continued her title defence with a dominant 6-1 6-4 victory over Spain’s Cristina Bucsa.
On the men’s side, four-times champion Novak Djokovic also produced a comprehensive 6-3 6-3 6-2 win over German Jan-Lennard Struff. Next up for the Serbian seventh seed is last year’s runner-up Taylor Fritz, who knocked out Czech Tomas Machac.
1956 ALCARAZ DEFEATS RINDERKNECH
Spanish second seed Carlos Alcaraz defeated Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech 7-6(3) 6-3 6-4 and will meet Czech 20th seed Jiri Lehecka in the quarter-finals.
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1830 LEHECKA BEATS MANNARINO
Czech 20th seed Jiri Lehecka beat Frenchman Adrian Mannarino 7-6(4) 6-4 2-6 6-2 to reach the U.S. Open last eight for the first time in his career.
1635 PEGULA EASES INTO QUARTER-FINALS
Last year’s runner-up Jessica Pegula brushed aside American compatriot Ann Li 6-1 6-2 to reach the U.S. Open singles quarter-finals for the third time in her career.
1505 PLAY UNDER WAY
Play began under partly cloudy skies in New York, with the temperature around 23 degrees Celsius (73 degrees Fahrenheit).
U.S. OPEN ORDER OF PLAY ON SUNDAY (prefix number denotes seeding)
ARTHUR ASHE STADIUM (1530 GMT/1130 AM ET)
4-Jessica Pegula (U.S.) v Ann Li (U.S.)
Arthur Rinderknech (France) v 2-Carlos Alcaraz (Spain)
7-Novak Djokovic (Serbia) v Jan-Lennard Struff (Germany)
9-Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) v Marketa Vondrousova (Czech Republic)
LOUIS ARMSTRONG STADIUM (1500 GMT/11 AM ET)
Adrian Mannarino (France) v 20-Jiri Lehecka (Czech Republic)
Barbora Krejcikova (Czech Republic) v Taylor Townsend (U.S.)
21-Tomas Machac (Czech Republic) v 4-Taylor Fritz (U.S.)
1-Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) v Cristina Bucsa (Spain)
(Reporting by Chiranjit Ojha and Pearl Josephine Nazare in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)