{"id":2341,"date":"2016-09-04T15:50:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T15:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2016-09-04T15:50:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T15:50:33","slug":"serema-williams-feels-even-better-serena-williams-shoulder-feels-solid-looks-even-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2016\/09\/04\/serema-williams-feels-even-better-serena-williams-shoulder-feels-solid-looks-even-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Serema Williams feels even better Serena Williams\u2019 shoulder \u2018feels solid,\u2019 looks even better"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York (AP\/UNB) \u2014 So about that inflamed right shoulder that was supposed to hinder Serena Williams at the U.S. Open as she seeks a record 23rd major title: It sure seems to be just fine.
\n\u201cDefinitely feels solid,\u201d Williams said.
\nNot sure? There\u2019s plenty of evidence. No need to take her word \u2014 or her coach\u2019s \u2014 for it.<\/span>Look at the way Williams beat 47th-ranked Johanna Larsson 6-1, 6-1 on Saturday to reach the fourth round at Flushing Meadows and collect the 307th Grand Slam match victory of her career, surpassing Martina Navratilova for most by a woman in the Open era and equaling Roger Federer for most by anyone since 1968.
\nWilliams reached 121 mph on a serve. She had a half-dozen aces, bringing her total this week to 31. She faced only one break point \u2014 her first of the tournament \u2014 and saved it. She smacked seven return winners. She compiled a 24-5 total edge in winners.
\n\u201cTennis-wise, I think it was very satisfying in all aspects. It\u2019s not perfect, of course,\u201d said her coach, Patrick Mouratoglou. \u201cBut for someone who didn\u2019t play much matches in the last two months, I think she\u2019s competitive.\u201d
\nNow there\u2019s an understatement.
\n\u201cThere is no pain. Maybe she feels a little. I don\u2019t know; I\u2019m not in her shoulder. But I see she plays normal. She serves normal. At practice, she serves the quantity that we usually do, full power,\u201d Mouratoglou said. \u201cSo I don\u2019t see any problem. And she doesn\u2019t even talk about it. I know it\u2019s under control now.\u201d
\nThat sounds like bad news for upcoming opponents, starting with 52nd-ranked Yaroslava Shvedova, who advanced to the round of 16 in New York for the first time by beating Zhang Shuai 6-2, 7-5.
\nMonday\u2019s other fourth-round women\u2019s matchups will be Williams\u2019 older sister Venus vs. No. 10 Karolina Pliskova, No. 5 Simona Halep vs. No. 11 Carla Suarez Navarro, and No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska vs. Ana Konjuh. Venus Williams advanced comfortably Saturday night by beating No. 26 Laura Siegemund 6-1, 6-2. In that half of the draw, only the players with the last name Williams have won a Grand Slam title; the sisters could meet in the semifinals a year after Serena eliminated Venus in the quarters.
\nTwo past men\u2019s champions, Andy Murray and Juan Martin del Potro, moved into the fourth round.
\nMurray, who won the 2012 U.S. Open, had trouble in each of the first two sets, but eventually became more patient during baseline exchanges and took control for a 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-2, 6-3 victory over Paolo Lorenzi. Murray faces No. 22 Grigor Dimitrov in the round of 16. Murray joins Kyle Edmund \u2014 who won Friday to set up a match against No. 1 Novak Djokovic \u2014 to give Britain two men in the round of 16 at the American Grand Slam tournament for the first time since 1966, when it was known as the U.S. Championships.
\nA third British man, Dan Evans, came within a point of also making the fourth round but failed to complete what would have been a significant upset, fading in a 4-6, 6-3, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (8), 6-2 loss to No. 3 Stan Wawrinka. Evans held a match point at 6-5 in the fourth-set tiebreaker, but Wawrinka erased it, then took that set and raced to a 4-0 lead in the fifth.
\nWawrinka next faces No. 14 Nick Kyrgios or Illya Marchenko, who were playing in the night\u2019s last match in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
\nDel Potro\u2019s resurgence continued with a 7-6 (3), 6-2, 6-3 victory over No. 11 David Ferrer. The 2009 champion in New York missed 2 1\/2 years\u2019 worth of major tournaments because of three operations on his left wrist, and he\u2019s ranked only 142nd, which is why he needed a wild-card invitation to get into the field.
\nWilliams is 4-0 against Shvedova, who is best known for the first \u201cgolden set\u201d in the Open era, which began in 1968: She won all 24 points of the first set against Sara Errani at Wimbledon in 2012.
\n\u201cShe\u2019s dangerous,\u201d Mouratoglou said. \u201cBut I think Serena is even more dangerous.\u201d
\nLarsson would probably agree.
\n\u201cYou\u2019re out there, you\u2019re trying to find ways to win,\u201d Larsson said, \u201cbut sometimes, it\u2019s just not happening.\u201d
\nMouratoglou said Williams\u2019 shoulder began bothering her a day or two after Wimbledon, where she teamed with Venus to win doubles and tied Steffi Graf\u2019s Open-era record with Grand Slam singles title No. 22.
\nThis was Williams\u2019 first daytime match of the U.S. Open, so she debuted a new outfit \u2014 a white dress accessorized with neon pink compression wraps on her arms, which she called \u201cmy \u2018Wonder Woman\u2019 sleeves.\u201d
\n\u201cI feel this design, in particular, really is kind of like a superhero design,\u201d Williams said. \u201cLike a really powerful, strong character that is strong, but yet isn\u2019t afraid to be soft at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York (AP\/UNB) — So about that inflamed right shoulder that was supposed to hinder Serena Williams at the U.S. Open as she seeks a record 23rd major title: It sure seems to be just fine. “Definitely feels solid,” Williams said. Not sure? There’s plenty of evidence. No need to take her word — or her coach’s — for it.Look at the way Williams beat 47th-ranked Johanna Larsson 6-1, 6-1 on Saturday to reach the fourth round at Flushing Meadows and collect the 307th Grand Slam match victory of her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions\/2343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}