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HIGHLIGHTS-Tennis-Day eight at the U.S. Open
Sept 5 (Reuters) - Latest news from the eighth day of the U.S. Open tennis championships on Monday (all times GMT):
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Pliskova ends hopes of Williams sisters' showdown
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Karolina Pliskova ruined any chance of another Flushing Meadows sister showdown as she claimed a dramatic 4-6 6-4 7-6(3) win over sixth-seeded Venus Williams on Monday to reach the U.S. Open quarter-finals.
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Tennis-Serena storms into quarters in record-smashing style
NEW YORK, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Serena Williams stormed into the quarter-finals of the U.S. Open in record-smashing style on Monday, easing past Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova 6-2 6-3 to claim grand slam win number 308.
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Tennis-U.S. Open order of play on Tuesday
NEW YORK, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Order of play on the main showcourts at the U.S. Open on Tuesday (prefix numbers denote seeding):
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UPDATE 2-Tennis-U.S. Open women's singles round 4 results
Sept 5 (Gracenote) - Results from the U.S. Open Women's Singles Round 4 matches on Monday
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Tennis-Wawrinka sets up quarter-final clash with del Potro
NEW YORK, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Double grand slam winner Stan Wawrinka set up a marquee quarter-final showdown with 2009 champion Juan Martin del Potro with a 6-4 6-1 6-7(5) 6-3 victory over Illya Marchenko of Ukraine at Flushing Meadows on Monday.
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Shorten men's matches, says former Player Council head
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tennis must consider shortening matches in a bid to engage with a younger fanbase and avoid losing television viewers, according to former ATP Player Council president and doubles specialist Eric Butorac.
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Halep tops rival Suarez Navarro to reach quarters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fifth-seeded Simona Halep beat 11th-seeded Spanish rival Carla Suarez Navarro 6-2 7-5 on Monday to reach the quarter-finals of the U.S. Open on Monday.
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Del Potro into U.S. Open quarters after Thiem retires
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Juan Martin del Potro's summer renaissance continued on Monday as the unseeded Argentine advanced into the U.S. Open quarter-finals when Austrian eighth seed Dominic Thiem quit their match with an injury.
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Djokovic shakes off rust, shrugs off Edmund at U.S. Open
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top seed Novak Djokovic has been starved of competitive action at the U.S. Open but on Sunday the world number one feasted on unseeded Briton Kyle Edmund in a 6-2 6-1 6-4 romp that put him into the quarter-finals.
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