WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2018 20 Serena dominates at Cincinnati and Stan Wawrinka make winning start

AFP | Cincinnati, United States opened with a defeat of 12th seed Diego a little bit more consistency like on the Schwartzman 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. practice court and on the court.” erena Williams re-established her Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic Pouille had lost his previous three customary superiority, hammering survived a stiff test, needing nine match matches to Murray, the last at Dubai in SDaria Gavrilova 6-1, 6-2 to reach the points to outlast of the 2017. second round of the US 6-4, 7-6 (7/4). Djokovic is coming off Spanish 13th seed Pablo Car- on Monday. a third round loss at last week’s Toronto reno Busta started his week The 23-time champion tournament. with a 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 defeat of showed full recovery in her first match Murray, returning from January hip France’s , since suffering the worst defeat of her surgery, was unable to get past the French while Japan’s Kei Nishi- career two weeks ago in San Jose when 16th seed, hampering his preparations for kori put out Russian An- she was crushed 6-1, 6-0 in 51 minutes by the US Open starting on August 27 drey Rublev, 7-5, 6-3. British No. 1 . “Physically, I felt okay. It’s quick condi- Peter Gojowczyk of But the 36-year-old was all business tions here,” Murray said. “He was a little Germany defeated Joao Monday as she cleaned up on Australian bit sharper than me out there. Sousa 2-6, 6-4, 7-5 and Gavrilova, with Williams winning an 11th “I maybe wasn’t reacting as quickly to will next line up against straight match here. some shots I would have liked.” seven-time winner “I’m feeling pretty good tonight. It’s Murray last played 11 days ago in a , at sec- never easy, no matter what the scoreline Washington third-round match which ond the highest seed says,” Williams said. took him three hours to win and ended in the field after the “I definitely felt relaxed after the first at 3 a.m. withdrawal of Rafael break, but you’ve got to keep going and The 31-year-old two-time Wimbledon Nadal. try to go in for the whole thing.” winner is working his way back slowly Canadian Denis Though she has not played the tour- and felt he could not subject his body to Shapovalov beat US nament in three years, Williams lifted a quarter-final just over 12 hours later, tournament debutant back-to-back titles in 2014 and 2015 after prompting him to withdraw from that 7-6 (8/6), losing the 2013 final to . event. 3-6, 7-5 ’s injury comeback was “After Washington, I took four, five days Sam Querrey beat sidetracked as the three-time Grand Slam off the tennis court. I did a lot of training, ninth-seeded American champion lost 6-1, 1-6, 6-4 to Lucas Pouille. a lot of rehab. compatriot 6-4, But fellow injury patient Stan Wawrinka “As the year goes on, I’ll be able to get 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (7/5).

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