As the tussle reached its 144th minute of labor on Labor Day, and Karolina Pliskova grappled with her fifth match point in a third-set tiebreaker with Venus Williams, the partisan crowd kept trying to boost the 36-year-old American. From there to the end of a fourth-round match of superb quality and 71 winners, Pliskova would do two pertinent things. It’s irrelevant in the mighty case of Serena Williams, whose 6-2, 6-3 passage through Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan gave Williams a record 308 Grand Slam match wins. 3-ranked Agnieszka Radwanska, however, lost to 18-year-old Croatian Ana Konjuh, 6-4, 6-4. Come Monday, she found “the biggest stage what I’ve played” opposite a player in her record 72nd Grand Slam.

Source: Washington Post September 05, 2016 22:49 UTC