“It was intense, I have to say. We always have some really incredible matches and it brings out the best of my fitness when I play Sloane,” said Williams
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The American 11th seed, who triumphed here in 2017, fought off two match points but on the third was caught out of position behind the baseline.
Unseeded Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova ground down American fifth seed Sloane Stephens to reach the Australian Open quarter-finals.
She stretched every sinew in a brilliant display of defensive tennis to register the biggest win of her career.
A calm Sloane Stephens picked her shots to perfection to pull clear for a 7-5 4-6 6-1 victory over Japan’s Naomi Osaka on Monday in Singapore.
Defending US Open champion Sloane Stephens was dumped out in the quarterfinals after losing 6-2 6-3 to Latvian 19th seed Anastasija Sevastova in sweltering conditions on Tuesday.
Defending champion, Sloane Stephens, eased into the quarterfinals of the US Open with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Belgian Elise Mertens on Sunday.
Sloane Stephens will be defending her title at the US Open but all eyes will be on Serena Williams over the coming two weeks as the six-times champion attempts to win her first Grand Slam title since becoming a mother.
Top seed Simona Halep returned to sew up victory over Ajla Tomljanovic on Friday after their second round match at the Cincinnati Open had been suspended the previous day due to rain.
Romanian Halep will now meet the winner of the late semifinal between defending champion Elina Svitolina of Ukraine and US Open winner Sloane Stephens for the title on Sunday
The 25-year-old fourth seed, who played no grass warm-up tournaments after reaching the final of the French Open on clay, looked uncomfortable on the fast surface, moving awkwardly and failing to find the lines.
The top seed won 3-6 6-4 6-1 in just over two hours to hoist the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen in front of a packed centre court.
The world number 83 needed a little over an hour to beat Keys in the first all-American US Open women’s final since 2002, powering to a 6-3 6-0 victory at Flushing Meadows