That wasn’t so tough!
Sloane Stephens was super excited to play Serena Williams at the US Open to define this match as a possible epic.
Well, it was an epic, actually it was a “typical” Serena’s trash as the world no.1 conceded only 5 games to the upcoming American.
Eventually Serena scored 75 points vs. Sloane’s 49 to commit only 13 unforced errors vs. Sloane’s 29. Match Stats.
From Serena
After all the controversy after last January when Serena and Sloane didn’t really have a good “relationship” the two super stars are now in much better terms. “It’s definitely difficult playing people that you like, that you always want to see do well,” said Williams.
“But you have to go out there and kind of put that to the side and realise, I want to do well myself and take every point as it comes.”
Sloane: I want to break into the top 10 in 2013
The youngster had also very good words for her opponent to say “She’s number one in the world for a reason. She played really well.
“It didn’t go how I wanted. The second set got away from me a little bit. All in all I thought I competed well and played well. That’s all you can do really.”.
After that she added she definitely want to break into the top 10 by the end of the year.
Next vs. Suarez Navarro
Serena will play next Suarez Navarro. Serena has never conceded more than 3 game to the Spaniard and she has never dropped more than 5 games in this tournament.
Considering that head to head is 2-0 for Serena, we can’t really see an upset in this round… but you’ll never know.
