US Open 2017 News

American tennis player Venus Williams has become the latest celebrity victim of burglary as she was robbed of whopping 400,000 dollars in property while she was playing in the US Open.

Both are up and coming American players - Madison Keys and Sloane Stephens. Both players are playing the first Major final in their careers.

Anderson, who in the absence of world number two Andy Murray benefited from a favourable draw, will face world number one Rafael Nadal in Sunday's final.

Nadal ended the 2009 champion's ordeal with a splendid backhand passing shot on his first match point, four years after his last title at Flushing Meadows.

Earlier this year, they had made it to the French Open semi-final where they had lost to eventual champions Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova. While Hingis will be aiming for her third US Open glory in women's doubles circuit, for Chan it will be her maiden Grand Slam title.

Thrice has he come close to the title, but Nadal on hardcourts hasn't been a stat to show. Eeasing past all unseeded players so far in the tournament, Nadal now is up against the man who had defeated him at a similar stage eight years back. 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 stood the score as the then sixth-seeded Argentine crumbled down Nadal's then hope of maiden US Open glory.

Interestingly, in the women's circuit, Garbine Muguruza claimed her first World No. 1 title in the WTA Rankings which will also release this Monday. This is for the first time since 2003 that two tennis player from the same nation holds top two spots in the singles arena.

Stephens, who returned to competition at Wimbledon after nearly a year off because of a foot injury, recovered from a second-set meltdown to end ninth seed Williams's hopes of reaching a third major final this year.

Sania Mirza, who had had a rather splendid run last year that took her to all-time high World No. 1 in doubles circuit, failed to carry on the momentum this year. This will, in fact, be her best Grand Slam performance in 2017, with in the earlier three she had failed to crawl past the third round of the competition. 

Much to the speculation, Argentine tennis ace Juan Martin del Porto stunned the former US Open champion 7-5 3-6 7-6 (10-8) 6-4 in the quarter-final round to set up a semi-final clash with Nadal. As for the Spaniard, one thing is to rest assured, his World No. 1 title remains with him as he would leave New York.  

In the first semi-final, Venus Williams will take on Sloane Stephens. In the other semi-final, CoCo Vandeweghe will play Madison Keys. 

Pliskova had been the runner-up in 2016 and her failure to defend those points means that Wimbledon champion Muguruza will take the top ranking for the first time despite the Spaniard losing in the last 16 in New York.

The battle on Wednesday is famously dubbed as the battle of forehands because these two are the two best players in the world when it comes to one of the most talked about shots in the sport. 

It will be the second day of quarterfinal action as Roger Federer will play Juan Martin del Potro for a place in the last four. Both men are former champions in New York.

Carreno Busta, the first player to face four qualifiers in any Grand Slam, booked a Friday semi-final against the winner of a night match between South African 28th seed Kevin Anderson and 17th-seeded American Sam Querrey.

There is one big match and really the only showstopper match lined up for the day as Venus Williams, US two-time champion and the favourite in the women’s draw, takes on the second favourite Petra Kvitova.

The seventh-seeded pair who had bagged the Frech Open title earlier this year, took down their opponents in the first set winning 6-4, but fell in the consecutive two struggling for around an hour before succumbing down to Chan and Venus on Court 17 at the Flushing Meadows.

Roger Federer and Venus Williams may be among the oldest players on the tour but they remain favourites to scoop US Open titles this year.   

Federer, the third seed, eased into the last-eight with a 6-4, 6-2, 7-5 win over Philipp Kohlschreiber, taking his record over the German veteran to 12-0.

Nadal will now await for the winner between Andrey Rublev and David Goffin for his quarter-final clash. He is now one win away from the most anticiapated rivalary – Federer vs Nadal at the Arthur Ashe.