US Open 2015: Novak Djokovic, Rafa Nadal and Serena Williams all in action
Sunday 6 September 2015 14:25, UK
Novak Djokovic joins two-time champion Rafa Nadal in action at the US Open on Wednesday, while Serena Williams will look to move one step closer to completing a calendar sweep of the four Grand Slams.
Top seed and world No 1 Djokovic will cap the night session when he battles unseeded Austrian Andreas Haider-Maurer under the lights - live on Sky Sports 1 from 4pm.
Serbian Djokovic dropped only three games in a first-round canter, but might get a tougher contest from world No 52 Haider-Maurer, who downed Canadian Vasek Pospisil in five sets on Monday.
Eighth seed Nadal, who survived a dangerous first-round opponent in Croatian teenager Borna Coric, will be up against unseeded Argentine Diego Schwartzman in a daytime match in the Louis Armstrong Stadium.
Defending men's champion Marin Cilic, the ninth seed, will also be in action as he faces Russian world No 139 Evgeny Donskoy.
The imperious Williams meets unseeded Kiki Bertens for a spot in the third round at Flushing Meadows.
Top seed Williams, seeking to become the first woman since Steffi Graf in 1988 to complete a rare calendar Grand Slam, will face the tall, big-hitting Bertens in the third match of the day at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
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A well-rested Williams, who needed only 30 minutes to win her first-round match when her opponent retired with a knee injury, will start an overwhelming favourite against her 110th-ranked opponent from the Netherlands.
It will be the first career match-up between Williams and Bertens.
Also in action, Canadian 10th seed Milos Raonic takes on left-hander Fernando Verdasco from Spain while Verdasco's compatriot Marcel Granollers faces hard-hitting Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
Ana Ivanovic's conqueror Australian Open runner-up Dominika Cibulkova will tackle the daughter of Buffalo Bills and Sabres' owner American Jessica Pegula.
The 21-year-old Pegula is ranked No 260 and won in her Grand Slam debut Monday, upsetting French Open quarter-finalist Alison Van Uytvanck in straight sets.
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