She finished with 11 aces, she won on her first serve 73 percent of the time, and she took points from Kontaveit on 31 percent of her opponent's first serves. The 40-year-old Williams looked to be in top form. Kontaveit got it to 4-2 before Williams won the final two games. Kontaveit earned a break to make it 2-1, but Williams broke Kontaveit again to move to 3-1. She won the opening game and then broke Kontaveit to open up a 2-0 lead. While Williams later added a win on one of her service games, Kontaveit easily finished the set to even the match. Kontaveit bounced back strongly in the second set, winning the first three games before Williams notched one. Kontaveit broke back and the two again traded wins before going to a tiebreak. Williams and Kontaveit traded wins in the first set until Williams broke to go up 5-4. MORE: Watch Serena Williams at the 2022 US Open live with fuboTV (free trial)

'It's no rush here (to leave),' Williams said after the match. The 7-6(4), 2-6, 6-2 triumph sent her into the third round of the 2022 US Open. Instead, Williams took the first set in a dramatic tiebreaker, dropped the second set and then stormed back to win the third. 2 Anett Kontaveit a heavy underdog many expected that the final singles match of her tennis career would come Wednesday night at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Djokovic is going for a calendar year Grand Slam after Zverev thwarted his bid for a Golden Slam.She came into her match against world No. Germany's Zverev upset Novak Djokovic in the Olympics and looks to do the same at Flushing Meadows, barring some sort of dramatic upset by Denmark's Holger Rune of Djokovic on Tuesday night. 4 Zverev defeated American Sam Querrey in three sets, hitting 18 aces, in just 1 hour, 40 minutes. In one of the biggest matches on Tuesday, Olympic gold medalist Alexander Zverev moved into the second round, extending his current win streak to 12 matches. 7 Denis Shapovalov def. Federico Delbonis 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 6 Matteo Berrettini def. Jérémy Chardy 7-6, 7-6, 6-3 ET, and top seed Novak Djokovic taking on Holger Rune at Arthur Ashe Stadium. 6 Bianca Andreescu and Viktorija Golubic, which gets underway at 9 p.m. Tuesday evening is headlined by the women's match between No. We'll break down the stats and results of Tuesday's top singles matchups. Korda had skipped the Tokyo Games to prepare for the U.S. Korda had stomach issues, per his agent and according to the New York Times. Open Tuesday, namely as American Sebastian Korda was forced to retire because of illness in his match against Nikoloz Basilashvili. There were also upsetting scenes at the U.S.

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