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Serena Williams' Back to The 1980s Moment

Williams led 4-1 in the third set, but was just two points from defeat on Rus the serve at 6-5. In the tiebreak that ended, the American took control to deprive Williams of what would be a significant moment after her heartbreak earlier in her career. Rus lost 17 consecutive matches between 2012 and 2013.



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Williams was in the final set for the longest time since her defeat to Virginie Razzano in 2012 at the French Open. It was the first time Williams played back-to-back tiebreaks in the third set during her career of more than 20 years.



As in the next week, there are there are no fans on site, which led Williams to reminisce about the 80s, when fewer were watching her as a young.



"At one stage, I was pumping my fist in order to say, 'Come on. I had a crowd in my head or something," Williams, who turns 39 next month, told reporters. "It was actually funny to me. I do not know why. For me, it was like there was a large crowd.



"It feels like I'm back in juniors, but at a bigger level in a strange way, as it wasn't much ... it takes you back to the '80s," she later said. "Yeah. Wow, that's quite a long time ago."



Her preparations for what could be a record-breaking 24th major continues in Tuesday's evening session against one of the sport's most promising players 13th seed Maria Sakkari.



Djokovic's injury



After defeating Ricardas Berankis, Novak Djokovic will also play on Tuesday.



He was not as close to defeat as Williams but labored to a 7-6 (2) victory that was perhaps not a shock given the layoff from official matches, his neck problem and his positive test for coronavirus following his controversial Adria Tour exhibition was cut short.



Djokovic had eight aces but seven double faults. This was due to the neck problem that forced Djokovic out of the doubles tournament.



"It has bothered" the Serb who will then meet Tennys Sandgren. "I have made many double errors, and he knew exactly the place I'm going to serve. There was not many options for me because just the situation I was in.



"But I managed to recover thanks to the ATP the physiotherapist. He did his best for me. It's what it is. I was trying to do one at one time."



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He improved to 19-0 in this campaign.



Djokovic's main rivals, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, aren't competing this week or at the US Open. Federer is still recovering from knee surgery and Nadal will not be competing because of the pandemic.



However, the other member of the 'Big Four',' Andy Murray, is playing and the Scot who had hip resurfacing surgery last year to save his career beat Alexander Zverev 6-3 3-6 7-5 to claim his first top-10 victory since the 2017 French Open.



Double faults



Zverev rallied from a break deficit in the third game to lead 5-4, but he was unable to serve the match to the end. Zverev again was plagued by double faults, hitting five double faults in his last two games of service, and 11 overall.



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Murray will next face Milos Raonic, another big-server. This match is a rematch of the 2016 Wimbledon final was won by Murray who won the previous match. Raonic managed to hit just five double faults and racket 23 aces, beating Murray's Brit opponent Dan Evans 6-3-7-5



Filip Krajinovic (Djokovic's friend) was the most shocking upset in the match, beating Dominic Thiem 62 to 61 in one hour. Thiem was beaten in five sets to Djokovic in the Australian Open final. He won only two of 34 return points. This was part of the Austrian called "horrible stats".
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