NEW YORK: Serena Williams earns the nod as the favourite heading into the US Open by virtue of her Olympic and Wimbledon titles, but the field of contenders is wide open in the year’s last Grand Slam event.
The Flushing Meadows fortnight begins on Monday with Williams having had her 19-match win streak halted at Cincinnati, in her final Open tuneup, by Angelique Kerber, the German who ousted Venus Williams at the Olympics.
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