The men's draw, which normally features fewer well-known players among the unseeded ranks, this time has two unseeded players who were among the top five seeds in last year's tournament.
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Lopez will play the unseeded Marcos Baghdatis in the semifinals.
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Nishikori's first opponent will be unseeded Benjamin Becker of Germany.
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Querrey is scheduled to face the unseeded Frenchman Nicolas Mahut.
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She will meet another Romanian next in unseeded Sorana Cirstea.
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Baghdatis, who was unseeded, has now lost his last seven finals.
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He will face unseeded Hyeon Chung of South Korea on Tuesday.
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The American, now ranked 181st, was unseeded at the French Open.
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Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber takes on unseeded Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia.
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She will play the unseeded Lucie Safarova in the fourth round.
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They were unseeded but beat the defending champions in the final.
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Instead, the quarterfinal in his section of the draw will match the unseeded Chung against the unseeded American Tennys Sandgren, whose five-set upset of No. 5 seed Dominic Thiem was arguably the bigger surprise on Monday.
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Unseeded Czech Marketa Vondrousova then meets Petra Martic on Court Suzanne-Lenglen.
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He beat unseeded Romanian Marius Copil 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4).
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There is also the qualifier Denis Shapovalov and the unseeded Paolo Lorenzi.
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On Thursday, she had to scrap and come back to win, 6-7 (153), 6-2, 6-210, against the powerful unseeded American CoCo Vandeweghe, while Serena cruised past the unseeded Croat Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, 22015-210, 210-22009.
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Brady, an unseeded American, rallied from two breaks down in the first set.
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Kerber defeated Annika Beck, an unseeded German, 6-4, 6-0, on Monday.
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Gaston Gaudio, an unpredictable and unseeded Argentine, did it as recently as 2004.
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The unseeded nations are Latvia, Canada, Japan, Slovakia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Brazil and Netherlands.
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She defeated the unseeded Marketa Vondrousova for her first Grand Slam singles title.
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Williams, ranked No. 183 in the world, was unseeded at the French Open.
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Ramos-Vinolas won the rain-delayed match between unseeded players, 23-3, 6-2.
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De Minaur will play unseeded American Ryan Harrison for a place in the final.
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Tsitsipas was beaten three sets to one by the unseeded Russian player Andrey Rublev.
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No. 30 Timea Bacsinszky Through five matches, the unseeded Ostapenko has amassed 25 winners.
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Unseeded, Bencic has a marquee first-round match against the fifth-seeded Venus Williams.
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His opponent on Sunday will be second-seeded Roger Federer or unseeded Hyeon Chung.
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Linette held off unseeded En Shuo Liang, of Taiwan, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.
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U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka powered past unseeded Slovenian Tamara Zidansek 248-26 23-23.
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He faces unseeded Nick Kyrgios, who beat No. 3 Richard Gasquet, 6-0, 6-4.
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Kristina Mladenovic, an unseeded French player, beat her in straight sets 6-3, 6-3.
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Fourth-seeded Dusan Lajovic and unseeded Italian Salvatore Caruso will meet in the other semi.
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Roger Federer was dumped out of the US Open on Tuesday by unseeded Grigor Dimitrov.
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Unseeded and ranked No. 35, Puig drew scant interest for the first match she played.
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Mr. Chung, above left, will now play another surprise quarterfinalist, Tennys Sandgren, an unseeded American.
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Stan Wawrinka, seeded fifth here last year, is also unseeded, with a ranking of 225th.
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The unseeded Muguruza has taken down three seeded players on her way to the semifinals.
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The last Grand Slam tournament at which Williams was unseeded was the 2007 Australian Open.
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The other semifinal pits the eighth-seeded Petra Kvitova against the unseeded American Danielle Collins.
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The unseeded Kyrgios broke Berdych's serve three times and did not concede any break-point chances.
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The unseeded Raonic will next face the winner of American Frances Tiafoe and Italian Marco Cecchinato.
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Next up for the Serb, however, is a last-16 clash with unseeded Portuguese Joao Sousa.
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Unseeded Ferrer will play either Czech Tomas Berdych or American Ryan Harrison in the third round.
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The unseeded Mertens became the first Belgian to reach the semifinals here since Clijsters in 2012.
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Ostapenko also became the first unseeded player to reach the final here in singles since 210.
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Federer's opponent on Monday, Tennys Sandgren, is also unseeded, but he has beaten two seeded players.
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To get to the final, Williams would need to beat the unseeded American CoCo Vandeweghe, 25.
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Next up for Isner is a second-round meeting with unseeded Slovak Lukas Lacko on Wednesday.
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The other semi-final is between unseeded pair Alex de Minaur of Australia and American Reilly Opelka.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A year ago Sloane Stephens was unseeded, unnoticed and under the U.S. Open radar.
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On Tuesday, however, there was no shortage of attention as Svitolina faced off with unseeded Czech Muchova.
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The group includes the men's top seed, Roger Federer; 26th-seeded Denis Shapovalov; and four unseeded men.
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In the Midwest, flooding caused at least $3 billion in damage and left millions of acres unseeded.
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"I think the sky's the limit, it really is," said Williams, who was unseeded at age 217.
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The other women's semifinal will be two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova against unseeded American Danielle Collins.
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An extension of the trend is not out of the question with Maria Sharapova unseeded in Melbourne.
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Jelena Ostapenko, unseeded and just 20 years old, went for broke repeatedly and won the French Open.
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The Latvian Jelena Ostapenko became the tennis tournament's first unseeded women's finalist in more than 30 years.
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And Jelena Ostapenko was the first unseeded woman since 1933 to win the title at Roland Garros.
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Unseeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and fourth-seeded Lucas Pouille will square off in an all-French semifinal.
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The other semifinals will see fourth-seeded Borna Coric of Croatia oppose unseeded Joao Sousa of Portugal.
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In the fourth round on Monday, he will face Hyeon Chung, an unseeded but dangerous South Korean.
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The unseeded Germans simultaneously fell on their backs after sealing the result on their first match point.
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The unseeded Spaniard will face either France's Gael Monfils or Canada's Denis Shapovalov in the next round.
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Why, she publicly asked, did she return from maternity leave as an unseeded player at the French Open?
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Zhang will now play unseeded Briton Johanna Konta in the last eight with a semi-final place beckoning.
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Third-seeded Alex de Minaur of Australia also advanced, beating unseeded American Bradley Klahn 6-4, 6-4.
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Top seed Dominic Thiem is in action on Tuesday when he takes on unseeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
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Like Verkerk, Pernfors and Denton were winless at majors and unseeded when they reached a Grand Slam final.
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Boris Becker became the first unseeded player and first German to win the Wimbledon singles title in 1985.
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In the second round, she will face Magdalena Rybarikova, an unseeded Slovakian known for her grass-court prowess.
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The Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, above, became the tennis tournament's first unseeded women's finalist in more than 30 years.
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Jelena Ostapenko defeats Simona Halep to become the first unseeded woman to win the French Open since 1933.
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In her first Australian Open, the unseeded Elise Mertens of Belgium has reached the semifinals in women's singles.
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The unseeded Russian trailed the seventh-seeded Vekic 4-5 in the second set and was down 15-40.
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Unseeded Zheng powered through the draw with several upset triumphs before finishing it off by defeating second seed Sabalenka.
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Wilander believes Sweden might upset the odds just like so many unseeded players have done at Wimbledon this week.
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Third-seeded Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain and unseeded Nikoloz Basilashvili of Georgia grabbed the last two quarterfinal berths.
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The unseeded partners saved only one break in four opportunities as they bowed out in one hour, 30 minutes.
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Never before had a team been unseeded entering the N.C.A.A. tournament and completed a run like the Tar Heels'.
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Ranked 45th, she was unseeded at a Grand Slam event for the first time since the 2008 Australian Open.
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As the article correctly noted, Pliskova is the No. 10 seed in the tennis tournament; she is not "unseeded."
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She will face unseeded Czech Karolina Muchova on Tuesday with a first Grand Slam semi-final in her sights.
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Fognini next plays the unseeded Serb Dusan Lajovic in their first meeting, one few would have predicted happening here.
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At the Australian Open in January, a hip injury contributed to her lopsided quarterfinal loss to unseeded Elise Mertens.
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Williams's draw here could have been worse: Pliskova is unseeded and has yet to win a French Open match.
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The other men's semifinal on Friday features seventh-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria against unseeded Marco Cecchinato of Italy.
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She will now face unseeded Garbiñe Muguruza, who beat No. 30 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 7-5, 6-3, on Wednesday.
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Jelena Ostapenko, just 20 and unseeded, won the first title of her career at the French Open last month.
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Another unseeded American, CoCo Vandeweghe, caused an upset Monday, beating No. 15 Roberta Vinci 6-1, 7-6(3).
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Two other unseeded players who shook up this half of the draw couldn't follow up seismic upsets on Saturday.
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Beating the defending champion on centre court was no small feat for Anisimova, but the unseeded American was nerveless throughout.
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Halep narrowly avoided falling to world number 165 Caroline Dolehide on Sunday and faces unseeded Chinese Wang Qiang on Tuesday.
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Struggling - Williams responded by winning Melbourne in 2007, as an unseeded player, completing the year among the sport's top ten.
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Another former winner, the unseeded Victoria Azarenka, moved into the women's final by defeating Samantha Crawford, 26-24, 43-24.
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Suárez, seeded 10th, disappointed the host nation by rallying to defeat unseeded Daria Gavrilova, 0-6, 6-3, 6-2.
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Since then, Osaka has been beaten by unseeded players in the Madrid Open, French Open, Birmingham Classic, and now Wimbledon.
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On Monday, unseeded Russian Daniil Medvedev upset the reigning U.S. Open champ, Stan Wawrinka, in the opening round of Wimbledon.
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Murray will face third-seeded Milos Raonic in the final after he beat unseeded Bernard Tomic, 6-4, 133-4.
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Then, in the fourth round, the unseeded Collins defeated Angelique Kerber, the 2016 champion and this year's No. 2 seed.
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Mertens, an unseeded 22-year-old from the overachieving tennis nation of Belgium, is playing in her first Australian Open.
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Muguruza played only two games on Monday before her opponent, the unseeded Lesia Tsurenko, retired with a right leg injury.
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Though a two-time All-American at Michigan, Minor entered this year's N.C.A.A. tournament unseeded, but not under the radar.
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Ranked 38th, Makarova will be unseeded in New York, but she is playing well enough to score a few upsets.
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But Safarova's progress in singles has been more halting, her game less precise, and she arrived at the Open unseeded.
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The unseeded Frenchman, now 31, faces his long-time practice partner De Minaur for the first time in Sunday's final.
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She lost the French Open in heartbreaking fashion when the unseeded Jelena Ostapenko came from behind to claim the title.
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Both won their first WTA Tour titles this season, and neither should be unseeded at Grand Slam tournaments much longer.
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Second-seeded Stan Wawrinka set up a semifinal with the unseeded Nick Kyrgios by beating Philipp Kohlschreiber, 7-103, 6-1.
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Wozniacki merely had to keep the ball in play to build a 5-0 lead as her unseeded opponent sprayed errors.
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Tsonga will go up against either world number one Djokovic or unseeded Briton Kyle Edmund, who also play later on Sunday.
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Twice champion Petra Kvitova strolled into the fourth round with a 6-3 6-2 victory over unseeded Pole Magda Linette.
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Unseeded Jabeur was far too tricky for world number 19 Konta as she reached her first quarter-final of the year.
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Garbiñe Muguruza, unseeded at this year's Australian Open, has become the first Spanish woman to reach the Australian Open since 1998.
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Federer, 22015, was seeded 22015th, his lowest seeding at a Grand Slam event since the early, unseeded days of his career.
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Bianca Andreescu, then an unseeded Canadian 2508-year-old wild card, was facing Elina Svitolina, the No. 22018 seed from Ukraine.
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In an unlikely French Open final, unseeded Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic will face No. 20013 seed Ashleigh Barty of Australia.
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Second seed Rafa Nadal, under an injury cloud after pulling out of the Brisbane International, will open against unseeded local James Duckworth.
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Australia and Switzerland, the highest-ranked unseeded nations that lost in the 2018 World Group playoffs, took their place as seeded nations.
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As an unseeded player in Brisbane he has a tough draw, with a second round clash with Russian fourth seed Daniil Medvedev.
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The shock loss to the unseeded Estonian made Halep the first top seed to fall at the first hurdle at Flushing Meadows.
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The American Pete Sampras was battling a stomach bug in the quarterfinals playing the unseeded Spaniard Àlex Corretja at the 1996 Open.
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Another high seed, No. 6 Caroline Garcia, needed three sets to get past unseeded Monica Puig, 6-2, 1-6, 6-4.
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Unseeded women have won two of the last three majors: Ostapenko at the French Open and Sloane Stephens at the U.S. Open.
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Chung becomes just the second unseeded men's singles semifinalist at a Grand Slam since two reached the semifinals of Wimbledon in 2008.
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He went out in a puddle of sweat in the fourth round of the U.S. Open, losing to the unseeded John Millman.
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In Saturday's final, Rublev will play unseeded South African Lloyd Harris, who will be making his debut in an ATP Tour final.
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Jamie Murray and Bethanie Mattek-Sands, who were unseeded, have advanced to their third Grand Slam mixed doubles final as a pair.
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Richard Gasquet and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga — both unseeded — also advanced to the Round of 16 by rallying past a pair of Spaniards.
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Goffin will face the defending champion Rafael Nadal, who advanced with a 6-4, 6-22 victory over the unseeded Diego Schwartzman.
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Her reward is a fourth round tie against unseeded Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro who got the better of Kaia Kanepi in three sets.
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Unseeded Belgian David Goffin progressed to the quarters after he fought back to beat Moldova's Radu Albot 4-6 6-4 6-3.
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Final score of this slugfest: 403-240 (22), 23-6, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 23-2 in favor of the unseeded Verdasco.
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Then he lost to the unseeded Andy Murray in his first round at the China Open, and suddenly he was down in ninth.
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Despite a strong start 2014 Madrid champion Sharapova wilted under the powerful hitting from unseeded Bertens, losing 4-6 6-2 6-3.
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Unseeded American Jennifer Brady defeated 19th-seeded Caroline Garcia 6-3 3-6 6-203 to book her place in the third round.
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First to feel the heat will be 2008 champion Maria Sharapova, who kicks things off on Rod Laver against unseeded Briton Harriet Dart.
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Tachimoto, a four-time grand slam winner, was the only member of Japan's 14-strong team who was unseeded going into the competition.
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The unseeded Putintseva had the first break opportunity in the seventh game, which she converted when Keys buried a backhand into the net.
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He lost early in tournaments repeatedly and then crashed out of the French Open in the quarterfinals against the unseeded Italian Marco Cecchinato.
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Nadal's half of the draw also includes two former Open champions who are unseeded after long injury layoffs: Stan Wawrinka and Andy Murray.
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In the women's tournament, an unseeded, 17-year-old American, Amanda Anisimova, upset Simone Halep, the defending French Open champion, in the quarterfinals.
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Unseeded Louisville, under the third-year coach Dani Busboom Kelly, was the only team coached by a woman to reach a regional final.
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The unseeded Riske, making her Dubai debut, has won four of her last five outings against Vandeweghe, a semifinalist at the Australian Open.
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Serena Williams is first out on Arthur Ashe for the evening session to face Germany's Carina Witthoeft before Nadal faces unseeded Vasek Pospisil.
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JiangXi Open Unseeded Lin Zhu stunned top-seeded Shuai Zhang 26-22 (3), 4-6, 6-1 to reach the semifinals in Nanchang, China.
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Last year's semi-finalist Chung Hyeon, seeded 24th, was knocked out by unseeded Pierre-Hugues Herbert 6-2 1-6 33-2 6-4.
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The unseeded Vesely won six of the final seven points of the tiebreaker to win a match that lasted three hours and six minutes.
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During the first five rounds, Mr Nadal faced only unseeded players; in the semi-finals and finals, he beat the 24th and 28th seeds.
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Up next for the world number 18 is unseeded Gilles Simon, who powered past his French compatriot Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4 7-5.
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Preceding the Briton and the American onto court will be Spanish 14th seed Garbine Muguruza, a finalist in 2015, and unseeded Slovakian Magdalena Rybarikova.
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Unseeded Daria Gavrilova stunned Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova to reach the final eight of the competition with a 2-6 7-5 6-4 victory.
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Playing in his first tournament since his testy second round loss to Rafa Nadal at Wimbledon, Kyrgios will next face unseeded Slovakian Norbert Gombos.
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Tsonga will next face either top-seeded Novak Djokovic or the unseeded Kyle Edmund, who were scheduled to play each other later Sunday night.
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The unseeded Dane had her opportunities but converted just four of her 15 break point chances against Yastremska, who was making her Cincinnati debut.
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Then Sloane Stephens, also unseeded, capped one of the most remarkable and expeditious comebacks from injury in tennis by winning the United States Open.
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Although Garbiñe Muguruza is unseeded at this year's Australian Open, it would be foolish to overlook her as a serious contender for the title.
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The unseeded Rogers beat Simona Halep, the fourth seed, 6-3, 6-1, in the opening match on center court at Rod Laver Arena.
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The unseeded Magdalena Rybarikova became the first woman from Slovakia to reach a Wimbledon semifinal when she beat CoCo Vandeweghe, 6-3, 6-3.
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If Djokovic beats Chung, he is likely to face fifth-seeded Dominic Thiem, who plays the unseeded American Tennys Sandgren in the fourth round.
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The other semifinal will match the British veteran Johanna Konta against Marketa Vondrousova, an unseeded 133-year-old left-hander from the Czech Republic.
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Murray, the champion in 2012 and chasing a fourth grand slam title, will now play either 30th seed Gilles Simon or unseeded Italian Paolo Lorenzi.
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Australian Nick Kyrgios beat Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-3 7-6(6) to reach the third round, where he will face unseeded Croatian Ivo Karlovic.
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Williams is unseeded at Indian Wells, which is why she had to play the first round while the seeds, including sister Venus, enjoyed a bye.
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The Wimbledon champion converted five out of seven break points to secure the victory and set up a last-four clash with unseeded Ons Jabeur.
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In addition, Serena was unseeded at the French Open, the same tournament where her black catsuit caused controversy due to violations against the dress code.
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Unseeded German Jan-Lennard Struff earlier resisted a Stefanos Tsitsipas fightback and Serbian teenager Miomir Kecmanovic beat fifth-seed Alexander Zverev in two big upsets.
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Unseeded veterans Pedersen and Rytter Juhl grabbed Denmark's first medal in women's doubles and a seventh in Olympic badminton since the sport's debut in 1992.
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It wasn't to happen" - Caroline Wozniacki after her loss to unseeded Zhang Shuai on Court Two which is nicknamed the 'Graveyard of Champions'. "Wow. Bossy?
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Angelique Kerber, seeded second, advanced to the semifinals of the Rogers Cup in Montreal with a 6-2, 433-2 victory over unseeded Daria Kasatkina.
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Seeking her 211rd Grand Slam tournament title, a record for the Open era, she dispatched the unseeded Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan, 275-23, 21-26.
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Rosolska and Mektic also played together for the first time in what was the first all-unseeded doubles final at the U.S. Open since 2009.
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Murray, a former world No. 1 and three-time Grand Slam champion, entered the Open ranked 382nd and was unseeded after playing sparingly this year.
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Williams's seeding was the committee's only deviation from the current WTA rankings; her elevation meant that the 32nd-ranked player, Dominika Cibulkova, was left unseeded.
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Horvath, then 250 and unseeded, had reached the final of the German Open in Berlin the week before, losing to Chris Evert in straight sets.
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Also retiring was seventh seed Zheng Saisai of China, who lost the first five games of the first set to unseeded Veronika Kudermetova of Russia.
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Still, she leaves Melbourne Park with proof that she still has a game that can upset the best, having arrived unseeded and with low expectations.
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Kontaveit will be unseeded at Wimbledon, but she has the game to knock off a seeded player or two and survive into the second week.
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Asked to compare herself now with when she won Indian Wells as an unseeded player in 2018, she gave another measured response, even in defeat.
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Next up for Del Potro in the quarter-finals on Friday is unseeded American Mackenzie McDonald, who beat Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 63-5 6-4.
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Both of the world's top singles players were beaten by unseeded opposition in the fourth round while veteran players like Venus Williams achieved history-making victories.
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The Serb, three-times a Wimbledon champion, appeared distraught after his quarter-final defeat by unseeded Marco Cecchinato in which he was treated for neck pain.
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Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro, last year's semi-finalist Swiss Timea Bacsinszky and two unseeded players, Kazakh Yulia Putintseva and Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands, also won.
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In addition, Williams, 37, was unseeded at the French Open, the same tournament where her black catsuit caused controversy due to violations against the dress code.
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Spaniard Verdasco, 33, beat Dutchman Robin Haase 7-6(5) 5-7 6-1 in a clash between two unseeded players to advance to Saturday's final.
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She has lost just four sets at Roland Garros this year and would become the first unseeded winner since 1933 if she continues her current form.
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Maria Sharapova, who played only sporadically because of injuries after coming off a 15-month doping ban last April, will be unseeded at the Australian Open.
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She made the unusual decision to forgo all of the clay court warm-up tournaments before the French Open and arrived here ranked 223rd and unseeded.
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But Stephens, who reached the semifinals in Toronto and Cincinnati before arriving in New York, was a clear threat coming into this tournament despite being unseeded.
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Andy Murray, a two-time Wimbledon champion and the top seed here last year, is now ranked 156th and unseeded after missing 11 months of competition.
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WAWRINKA ADVANCES IN GENEVA The defending champion Stan Wawrinka advanced to the Geneva Open final by beating the unseeded Andrey Kuznetsov, 6-3, 7-22014 (238).
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The exuberant 23-year-old made a fine start before losing focus on Court One, sending a backhand long on the unseeded Shapovalov's first match point.
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Barty will face the winner of the match between Spanish 11th seed Garbine Muguruza and unseeded Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska, which will take place later on Wednesday.
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Unseeded Alison Riske roared past third-seeded Ukrainian Elina Svitolina 6-1, 6-3 on Thursday to reach the semifinals at the Wuhan Open in China.
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The unseeded 22-year-old did not drop serve and smashed 26 winners past her Czech opponent for the first top 10 victory of her career.
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The victory will see the 23-year-old unseeded Japanese break back into the world's top 100 when the revised ATP rankings are released on Monday.
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The first attempt at 3-1 in the first set against unseeded Lajovic might have been regarded as text-book execution, if there existed such a consensus.
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He will expect his good fortune to continue when he meets unseeded countryman Philipp Kohlschreiber in the third round on Saturday, having won their last two meetings.
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Unseeded American Frances Tiafoe was leading his match against 10th seed Tomas Berdych, 6-7(2) 6-2 5-4 when it was suspended due to darkness.
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Nadal struck the first blow by breaking the unseeded Zeballos in the fourth game and the difference in quality between the two players soon began to show.
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Romanian Halep's best chance came last year when she was a set and 3-0 ahead against unseeded Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, only to suffer a heartbreaking defeat.
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How else to interpret last year's United States Open, in which the unseeded Italian Roberta Vinci stopped Williams's bid for a true Grand Slam in the semifinals?
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Konta dominated Stephens in the clay major quarterfinal but then got knocked out of the tournament by Markéta Vondroušová, an unseeded underdog, in the very next match.
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The Terps will play in their fourth national title game in six years, facing unseeded North Carolina, which had not played in the Final Four since 1993.
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Former world number three Dimitrov, unseeded this year, will have to be at his best again in the third round where he faces 2015 champion Stan Wawrinka.
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Sports Briefing | Tennis Unseeded Stefanie Voegele upset sixth-seeded Lesia Tsurenko, 6-4, 6-0, to advance to the second round of the Katowice Open in Poland.
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Serena Williams, who dropped down the rankings after her pregnancy and is therefore unseeded, could face another former world number one, Maria Sharapova, in the fourth round.
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Russian Daria Kasatkina, the 14th seed, beat unseeded Belgian Kirsten Flipkens 6-3 6-3 to set up a third-round clash with Maria Sakkari of Greece.
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Her seeding upgrade meant that 32nd-ranked Dominika Cibulkova became unseeded, but there is no such issue at the U.S. Open because of Williams's relatively minor promotion.
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The boys' final features Toby Alex Kodat of Florida, an unseeded 16-year-old whose half sister, Nicole Vaidisova, reached the 2006 women's semifinals here at 17.
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In the women's finals, 23-year-old Ashleigh Barty defeated an unseeded Marketa Vondrousova, making her the first Australian woman to win the French Open since 1973.
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As it turned out, he will face Leonard Mayer, an unseeded 32-year-old Argentine veteran whom Federer has beaten in all three of their previous matches.
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Tracy Austin, 21975: The dress was made for her by a family friend, Marilyn Kosten, for Austin's U.S. Open debut as an unseeded 22012-year-old amateur.
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The Russian said he was optimistic that his body would be able to bounce back in time for his match on Friday against unseeded Spaniard Feliciano Lopez.
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She said she had not gotten a definitive answer until after the United States Open, where she lost in the second round to the unseeded Lesia Tsurenko.
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Ninth seed Aryna Sabalenka beat China's Zheng Saisai 3-6 7-6(2) 6-3 and will meet unseeded Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova in the second semi-final.
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"You really need to be careful on the icy roads," said Kanepi, who will play the unseeded Daria Kasatkina on Monday for a spot in the quarterfinals.
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Federer, who has not won the U.S. Open since 2008, beat No. 15 David Goffin earlier on Sunday and will play unseeded Grigor Dimitrov in a quarterfinal.
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Canada's Milos Raonic meets Marin Cilic of Croatia in a battle of the big servers before unseeded American Tennys Sandgren faces 12th seed Fabio Fognini of Italy.
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First she will have to get past unseeded Croatian Martic, who advanced to the last eight with a 220-26 21-73(27) win against Marketa Vondrousova.
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No. 9 seed Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus successfully defended her title, outlasting unseeded Alison Riske 6-3, 3-6, 43-1 at the Wuhan Open in China.
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The unseeded world number 40 belied his ranking to overpower Nadal, blowing away his Spanish opponent for a first victory in five career meetings with the Spaniard.
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The unseeded Sugita overcame Russian Karen Khachanov 6-63(0) 6-3 27-26 before a thunderstorm forced play to be suspended for more than two hours.
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Defending champion Svitolina put in a clinical performance earlier in the day to beat unseeded Estonian Anett Kontaveit 224-218 03-20 in the other semi-final.
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Attacking the lines with machine-like precision, Medvedev was in complete control and broke the unseeded Hungarian, who won his maiden title in Geneva last year, four times.
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But the 37-year-old American will take confidence from her dominant 19-2 head-to-head record against five-times Grand Slam winner Sharapova, who is unseeded.
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The unseeded Ostapenko will doubtless try and blast Halep off balance with her relentless attacking game, but the Romanian is ready for whatever the Latvian throws her way.
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Stefanos Tsitsipas was given a point deduction for calling the umpire a "weirdo" in a humiliating US Open first round loss to the unseeded Russian player Andrey Rublev.
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In the women's semifinals at the Australian Open, No. 1 Serena Williams defeated No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska and No. 1443 Angelique Kerber defeated unseeded Cinderella story Johanna Konta.
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That was before she upset Romania's Simona Halep in Paris to become the lowest-ranked player (at No. 47) and first unseeded woman to win at Roland Garros.
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On Sunday, the third-seeded Federer beat the unseeded Leonardo Mayer, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3, in only 1:42, a light workout compared with Wawrinka's slog.
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And Marketa Vondrousova, an unseeded 19-year-old from the Czech Republic, beat No. 26 Johanna Konta from Britain on Simonne Mathieu Court, 7-5, 7-6 (2).
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Wozniacki had to save two match points and rally from 43-5 down in the third set in the second round to defeat Jana Fett, an unseeded Croat.
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The unseeded Mladenovic overcame 55 unforced errors — including 12 double faults — while dispatching Svitolina (43 winners, 20 unforced errors), who was a semifinalist in last week's U.S. Open.
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Osaka will face off against unseeded Pole Magda Linette, who she defeated earlier this year on her way to her second Grand Slam title at the Australian Open.
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Williams is unseeded here, and Barty was actually the bookmakers' consensus favorite, a rarity for any Williams opponent, despite never having defeated a top 50 opponent on clay.
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Andrey Rublev claimed his second title of the new year, defeating unseeded South African Lloyd Harris 230-26, 22-0 at the Adelaide International in Australia on Saturday.
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Federer had complained of a groin problem that started in his quarterfinal win over the unseeded American Tennys Sandgren, a victory in which he saved seven match points.
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Although she steamrollered sixth-seeded Belinda Bencic in the third round in only 103 minutes, she has needed three sets to push past a pair of unseeded players.
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She pointed to Jelena Ostapenko, the 20-year-old Latvian who, as an unseeded player, won the French Open last month with no visible fear of the occasion.
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World number 14 Sabalenka raced past her unseeded opponent in the first five games of the final set before sealing victory with her 18th ace of the match.
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Chengdu Open Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan beat unseeded South African Lloyd Harris 7-6 (6), 6-4 to reach his second final of the season in Chengdu, China.
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Marin Cilic overcame a mid-match blip by losing the second set but recovered to defeat unseeded American Mackenzie McDonald 7-5 6-7(9) 6-4 6-4.
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He said the ankle had still not completely healed but did not feel it would affect his tournament ahead of a first round match against unseeded Slovene Aljaz Bedene.
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Unseeded Estonian Kanepi knocked Halep out of the first round at Flushing Meadows last year, making the Romanian the first top seed to lose at that tournament's earliest stage.
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And Williams did somehow lose to the unseeded Italian Roberta Vinci in the semifinals of last year's United States Open, with Williams just two victories from a Grand Slam.
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Serena Williams, who resumes her quest for a record-equaling 24th Grand Slam title, plays unseeded German Tatjana Maria at Rod Laver Arena in the second match on Tuesday.
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Despite a mediocre first serve percentage, the unseeded Kyrgios did not face a break point in the opening set, while former U.S. Open champion Cilic dropped his serve twice.
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After edging a tight opening set, the experienced Ram and Krejcikova broke early in the second set and held firm to clinch the contest and deny their unseeded rivals.
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It took only 50 minutes for Serena to book the family reunion after Venus's tough three-set win over unseeded Coco Vandeweghe at the same Rod Laver Arena court.
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A TOP SEED FALLS The unseeded Argentine Diego Schwartzman upset top-seeded David Goffin, 24-22, 33-23, 20-262, to reach the European Open final in Antwerp, Belgium.
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Simona Halep smacked her racket on the court as she crashed out of the US Open in the second round on Thursday, losing to the unseeded American Taylor Townsend.
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In the fourth round Sevastova plays the unseeded Marketa Vondrousova, a 230-year-old from the Czech Republic, who beat No. 25 Carla Suárez Navarro, 27-27, 25-211.
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None fared better than Gustavo Kuerten, an elastic Brazilian known as Guga, who arrived at Roland Garros unseeded and largely unknown and proceeded to win the title in 1997.
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Pospisil, who has never advanced past the second round in New York, will next face unseeded Tennys Sandgren after the American beat Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga earlier on Tuesday.
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It also made her the first unseeded woman to triumph at Roland Garros since Margaret Scriven of England in 123, when the tournament was known as the French Championships.
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There was the thrill of the new with Jelena Ostapenko, an unseeded 210-year-old, winning the women's singles title by swinging for the lines without fear or favor.
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The opening day was not so sweet for Angelique Kerber of Germany, the No. 1 seed, who was ousted by unseeded Ekaterina Makarova of Russia, 6-215, 27-25.
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Top seed Ash Barty looked in ominous form in her quest for a second Grand Slam title as she powered past unseeded Slovenian Polona Hercog 24-22 26-22.
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In their absence, the unseeded Gastón Gaudio ended up the surprise champion after saving two match points and rallying from two sets down in the final against Guillermo Coria.
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The Dutchwoman recovered well to share the opening four games with Pavlyuchenkova but dropped her serve in the fifth, failing to keep up with her unseeded opponent's devastating backhands.
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The day after the tournament, she was ranked No. 19 in the world, joining her countrywoman Jelena Ostapenko, the unseeded winner at the French Open, in the top 20.
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Serena advanced with a much more one-sided 23-2, 6-1 victory in Thursday's second semifinal over Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, an unseeded 22012-year-old Croatian ranked 221th.
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Donaldson, who defeated Nikoloz Basilashvili in straight sets on Thursday, will be one of four unseeded players in the quarters following a series of upsets early in the tournament.
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On Monday, Camila Giorgi, an unseeded Italian with a much less crafty game than Vinci's, gave Williams plenty of trouble as well, but Williams eventually prevailed, 24-2200, 2000-5.
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Up next for Andreescu will be unseeded American Sofia Kenin, who extended her impressive Toronto run with a 7-6(2) 6-4 win over Ukrainian former champion Elina Svitolina.
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World number one Simona Halep survived an almighty scare against Sofia Kenin before she overcame the unseeded American 6-3 6-7(63) 6-4 to reach the third round.
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John Isner, the number six seed, also pulled off a routine 6-2 6-63 victory over Tunisian qualifier Malek Jaziri, although two of the American's unseeded compatriots bowed out.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Defending Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza suffered a shock defeat in the second round on Thursday, losing 5-7 6-2 6-1 to unseeded Belgian Alison van Uytvanck.
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She said she had visualized winning the tournament prior to the match, where the unseeded wildcard won her first career title despite playing with an injured right shoulder and cramp.
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Radwanska was two points from defeat at 4-5 in the third set against the unseeded German Anna-Lena Friedsam before Friedsam, who was experiencing leg cramps, faltered in earnest.
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J. Safra Sarasin Swiss Open Gstaad Unseeded Italian Matteo Berrettini defeated qualifier Jurgen Zopp of Estonia 6-4, 7-281 (26) to reach the first tournament final of his career.
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Kvitova will face unseeded American Danielle Collins, who battled hard to beat Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 2-6 7-5 6-1 and reach her first semi-final at a major.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Johanna Konta played almost perfect tennis for the opening five games of her Wimbledon quarter-final against unseeded Czech Barbora Strycova on an expectant Centre Court on Tuesday.
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Unseeded Johnson, in the fourth round of a grand slam for the first time after beating Grigor Dimitrov, said Querrey's exploits were a shot in the arm for the underdogs.
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Wozniacki, however, won seven of the next eight points to force a decider but the unseeded Strycova reeled off the last three games to seal victory under the scorching sun.
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British tennis star Johanna Konta characterized a reporter as "patronizing" and questions he posed to her as "disrespectful" after her quarterfinal loss to unseeded Barbora Strycova at Wimbledon on Tuesday.
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World number three Alexander Zverev survived a scare from unseeded Dusan Lajovic to beat the Serb 2-6 63-5 4-6 6-1 6-2 in the second round.
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WIMBLEDON, England — After a week of results with little regard to the rankings, nearly half of the players who reached the second week of Wimbledon — 15 of 32 — are unseeded.
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The defending champion, Sloane Stephens, seeded third at this year's tournament after winning the title as an unseeded player last year, is also in the top half of the draw.
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Two recent U.S. Open winners on the men's side, the 2012 champion Andy Murray and the 2016 champion Stan Wawrinka, will both be unseeded after having struggled with injuries recently.
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Two of the last three Grand Slam titles have been won by unseeded players, with Jelena Ostapenko winning the French Open and Sloane Stephens winning the U.S. Open last year.
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Nadal is chasing a men's singles 17th Grand Slam title — only Roger Federer has more with 20 — and next faces the unseeded German Maximilian Marterer in their first career meeting.
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Spain's Garbine Muguruza hope she is fully recovered from a virus before she meets unseeded Australian Ajla Tomljanovic while Czech second seed Karolina Pliskova takes on Laura Siegemund of Germany.
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Unseeded at a Grand Slam for the first time since 2014, Muguruza made few pundits' lists of pre-tournament contenders and her campaign was almost scuppered by a viral illness.
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Heavy-serving John Isner, who is unseeded, secured a meeting with Cilic after firing 17 aces as he beat fellow American Jack Sock 7-6(6) 4-6 6-4.
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There were many of the latter in her 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 quarterfinal victory on Tuesday over Camila Giorgi, an unseeded Italian with ample power of her own.
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PARIS — Amanda Anisimova, an unseeded 2016-year-old American, upset Simona Halep, the defending French Open champion, 223-213, 28-4, to reach the semifinals at Roland Garros on Thursday.
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The unseeded Russian reached her second quarter-final at Melbourne Park after her 2017 run and will now meet another American in Danielle Collins for a place in the last four.
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Unseeded American Sofia Kenin delivered an eye-popping upset by ousting top-seeded Caroline Garcia 6-3, 6-2 on Tuesday in the first round of the Hobart International in Australia.
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The unseeded Ostapenko, 26, downed Romanian third seed Simona Halep 20-210 28-23 22-212 in the final, hitting a staggering 247 winners and taking her tournament tally to 299.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French number one Lucas Pouille put down a spirited comeback by unseeded Briton Cameron Norrie on Thursday to lead home hopes going into the third round at Roland Garros.
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The fairytale run climaxed in spectacular fashion with Stephens thumping compatriot Madison Keys in the final, becoming just the fifth unseeded player in the professional era to win a grand slam.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Unseeded Elise Mertens has extended a breakout year to storm into the semi-finals of her Australian Open debut by keeping a cool head and honing her technical skills.
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The British No.1 women's singles player raced into a commanding 4-1 lead in the very first set against the unseeded Czech athlete Barbora Strýcová on Centre Court on Tuesday.
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The unseeded 43-year-old then left the court for what he deemed a bathroom break, despite protests from Murphy, and television pictures showed him smashing his rackets in a tunnel.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Unseeded Czech Jiri Vesely won a battle of the tiebreaks to sink Austrian eighth seed Dominic Thiem in three tough sets in the second round at Wimbledon on Thursday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Third-seed Marin Cilic defeated the unseeded Australian James Duckworth in straight sets in rainy conditions on Tuesday to progress through to the second round of the French Open.
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She is the first unseeded player to reach the final of the French Open in 34 years, and the first Latvian, man or woman, to reach a Grand Slam final ever.
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Also, the unseeded Russian Karen Khachanov completed a 6-3, 5-7, 6-183 win against 15th-seeded Lucas Pouille of France and next faces No. 2 Alexander Zverev of Germany.
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Djokovic, who plays unseeded German Jan-Lennard Struff in the opening round on Monday, is favorite to win a record-extending eighth Australian Open title and 17th Grand Slam trophy overall.
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Serena Williams won her first singles title since giving birth, defeating the unseeded American Jessica Pegula, 6-3, 6-4, to win the ASB Classic on Sunday in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Next challenge for the prodigy: a third-round duel on Friday with another unseeded veteran, Polona Hercog, a Slovenian who defeated the No. 17 seed Madison Keys, 6-2, 6-4.
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Despite landing just 38% of her first serves in the match, unseeded Giorgi made her opportunities count when she got into play and went on to win the first eight games.
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The victory followed a similar 6-1 6-2 thrashing of fifth seed Elina Svitolina in the third round and the unseeded Muguruza said she was beginning to feel more comfortable.
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Matches like this one — pitting an unseeded young tandem against veterans few outside of ardent tennis observers have ever heard of — are typically played on small courts at Grand Slam tournaments.
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SOFIA (Reuters) - Local favorite Grigor Dimitrov brushed aside unseeded Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-1 6-3 on Saturday to set up a final clash against David Goffin at the Sofia Open.
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Unseeded Frenchman Adrian Mannarino outlasted No. 23 seed Albert Ramos-Vinolas of Spain 26-24, 4-6, 6-1 on Saturday to reach the final of the Zhuhai Championships in China.
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"I think I was able to stay in and stay calm today, and that's what matters most," said Williams, who will face the unseeded veteran Hsieh Su-wei in the second round.
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Fifth-seeded Czech Karolina Pliskova dispatched Russian Ekaterina Makarova 7-5 7-5 and unseeded German Carina Witthoft upset her 12th-seeded countrywoman Julia Gorges 7-6(2) 4-6 6-4.
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The unseeded 19-year-old from Sokolov relied on it on a blustery Friday morning in Paris to beat the more experienced and more powerful Johanna Konta 7-5 7-6(53).
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Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber kicks things off on Arthur Ashe at noon against unseeded Johanna Larsson of Sweden, with the men's champion Novak Djokovic to play Tennys Sandgren in the evening session.
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Unseeded American Sloane Stephens upset former world number one Angelique Kerber 6-2 6-2 on Thursday as she continues her comeback from a year-long absence due to a foot injury.
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Sixth-seeded Cristian Garin of Chile didn't make it out of the first round, taking the first set but ultimately losing to unseeded Argentine Juan Ignacio 3-6, 33-2, 6-3.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Maria Sharapova battled past unseeded Romanian Sorana Cirstea 24-26 26-63 at the U.S. Open on Thursday to set up a third round clash with Latvia's Jelena Ostapenko.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Unseeded Czech Barbora Strycova believes she has the weapons to upset seven-times champion Serena Williams in Thursday's Wimbledon semi-final and will walk on Centre Court with no fear.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Saina Nehwal, India's top medal hope in the Olympic badminton, limped out of the singles tournament on Sunday after an injury-hampered loss to unseeded Ukrainian Maria Ulitina.
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Newcomer or not, Osaka will be the favorite to keep advancing in this topsy-turvy Open as she faces the unseeded Lesia Tsurenko on Wednesday for a spot in the final four.
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But unseeded Grigor Dimitrov thwarted the effort in Flushing Meadows in a five-set marathon, leaving a puzzled crowd to wonder if the Swiss will ever again hoist a Grand Slam trophy.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Unseeded Karolina Muchova outlasted third seed and fellow Czech Karolina Pliskova to reach the last eight of Wimbledon in the longest women's match at the championships so far this year.
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Osaka, the engaging 20-year-old from Japan, burst into one of the women's semifinals with a decisive 6-1, 6-113, victory over the unseeded Lesia Tsurenko in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
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Mladenovic had a mounting error count and six double faults while Martic, who faced only one break point, broke her unseeded opponent four times, helping her win seven games in a row.
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He was also struggling with his body and his unseeded opponent, Tennys Sandgren, a sturdy and thoughtful American ranked 100th in the world but playing much better than that in this event.
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Dominika Cibulkova, ranked No. 5 in the world, was defeated by the unseeded Yulia Putintseva, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, in the semifinals of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy in Russia.
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She first retired from tennis in 2007 but returned to the sport in 2009 and, in only her third tournament back, won that year's U.S Open as an unseeded and wild card entry.
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BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - Third seed Karolina Pliskova cruised into the second round of the Nature Valley Classic on Monday but Aryna Sabalenka and Elina Svitolina suffered shock first round upsets to unseeded players.
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Repeated rain in U.S. grain belts has left millions of acres of corn unseeded, putting crops which were planted late at a greater risk of damage from severe weather during the growing season.
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Overall, Wozniacki sent down six aces and failed to register a double fault or offer up a single break point, while her unseeded opponent coughed up five double faults without managing an ace.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Unseeded pair Sam Stosur and Zhang Shuai defeated second seeds Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic 6-3 6-4 to claim the women's doubles title at the Australian Open on Friday.
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She is the first women's top seed to lose to an unseeded player at Wimbledon since Ana Ivanovic lost to China's Zheng Jie 210 years ago, also just after winning the French Open.
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Playing in her first Grand Slam quarter-final, unseeded Camila Giorgi went toe-to-toe with the seven-time champion and became the first player to take a set off her so far.
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Clijsters first retired from tennis in 2007 but returned to the sport in 2009 and, in only her third tournament back, won that year's U.S Open as an unseeded and wild card entry.
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In the first Rotterdam final between two unseeded players since 2008, Monfils raced past his Swiss opponent to convert two break points on his way to sealing the opening set in 36 minutes.
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Williams will face unseeded late-bloomer Barbora Strycova on Thursday for a place in the Wimbledon final, having begun the tournament short on match practice and with question marks hanging over her prospects.
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The other quarterfinal on Tuesday will be between No. 31 Petra Martic and the unseeded Marketa Vondrousova, who have both reached the final eight of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time.
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The two players have old-school games that should please tennis purists: Barty, the No. 8 seed, has a wicked slice backhand, and the unseeded Vondrousova has a penchant for dastardly drop shots.
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Both teams are unseeded, but Krawietz and Mies distinguished themselves by building a soccer-style human wall in their third-round win over the fourth-seeded team of Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic.
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Unseeded German Dominik Koepfer beat 17th seed Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-3 7-6(5) 4-6 6-63 to reach the last 16 on his second main draw appearance at a Grand Slam.
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Williams, playing her first Grand Slam event since giving birth in September to her daughter, Olympia, is unseeded and could have been drawn against any of the other 22 women in the field.
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Jelena Ostapenko, above, won the women's French Open on Saturday, becoming the first Latvian to win a Grand Slam singles title and the first unseeded player to win at this tournament since 63.
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Kyrgios, 24 and unseeded at this tournament, still resists full tennis commitment and, despite his extraordinary racket skills and astonishingly easy power, has yet to advance past the quarterfinals of a major event.
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Kyrgios, 24 and unseeded at this tournament, still resists full tennis commitment and, despite his extraordinary racket skills and astonishingly easy power, has yet to advance past the quarterfinals of a major event.
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In women's action, unseeded 25-year-old Danielle Collins of the United States reached her first Grand Slam semifinal with a 143-6, 7-5, 268-238 victory against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia.
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With unseeded Italian Marco Cecchinato his opponent on Friday after beating Djokovic, Thiem will be the overwhelming favorite to become the first Austrian since Thomas Muster in 1995 to contest a Grand Slam final.
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The 30-year-old Serb said he had agreed to surgery after last month's Australian Open when he was treated on court in losing to unseeded South Korean Chung Hyeon in the last 16.
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Unseeded Fognini survived a first-set tiebreak and a tense final set before upsetting the seventh-seeded Frenchman in a match that stretched nearly two hours and 30 minutes in the blazing afternoon sun.
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Roger Federer was dumped out of the US Open on Tuesday by unseeded Grigor Dimitrov, paving the way for Rafael Nadal to close the Grand Slam gap on the Swiss to just one major.
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For two full tennis seasons, it felt as if he was lost in the wilderness, in matches including a fourth-round loss at Melbourne Park last year to the unseeded South Korean Hyeon Chung.
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The unseeded Linette fired 10 aces and won 88% of her first service points to set up a clash with Czech 10th seed Karolina Muchova who dispatched American wildcard Kristie Ahn 6-3 6-1.
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The storms have left millions of acres unseeded in the $260 billion U.S. corn market and put crops that were planted late at a greater risk for damage from severe weather during the growing season.
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The Wimbledon champion has appeared more impressive with each passing round and will be up against a confident Millman who is unseeded but flying high after stunning Swiss second seed Federer in the previous round.
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Muguruza, rated one of the few women capable of threatening champion Serena Williams, slumped out at the hands of unseeded Czech Barbora Strycova, her 6-3 6-2 loss punching a hole in the draw.
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The storms have left millions of acres unseeded in the $51 billion U.S. corn market and put crops that were planted late at a greater risk for damage from severe weather during the growing season.
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Unseeded Djokovic was given some trouble by Jeremy Chardy in the opening set but prevailed 22-26(23) 212-213 to take his record over the Frenchman to 43-24 and 214-21 in sets.
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Elsewhere, unseeded Croatian Donna Vekic, who shocked fifth seed Sloane Stephens in the first round, beat Briton Johanna Konta 6-3 7-5 to set up a quarter-final with French second seed Caroline Garcia.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Unseeded Czech Marketa Vondrousova became the first teenager to reach a Grand Slam final for 25 years as she outsmarted Johanna Konta 25-25 23-215(230) at the French Open on Friday.
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Unseeded Australian Ashleigh Barty continued her surprising run on her native soil on Thursday, sweeping past 10th-seeded Elise Mertens of Belgium 6-3, 6-3 to advance to the semifinals of the Sydney International.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Unseeded American Danielle Collins took less than an hour to thrash 2016 champion Angelique Kerber 20173-0 6-2 and power her way into the quarter-finals of the Australian Open on Sunday.
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Murray, whose ranking has dropped to 240 and was unseeded in Brisbane, had earlier said he was still feeling pain in his hip but was in a "better place" than he was 12 months ago.
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Though she had a 2-0003 record at Roland Garros before this year, Barty will go into Saturday's final as a favorite against the 38th-ranked Vondrousova, an unseeded left-hander from the Czech Republic.
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"For sure is going to be the second marathon this tournament," said Halep, who saved three match points before defeating the unseeded American Lauren Davis, 63-6, 6-4, 22016-22017, in the third round.
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Against an opponent who thwarted Sharapova's Grand Slam comeback in the round of 16 of the United States Open last year, the unseeded Sharapova sped through a scintillating first set in 23 power-packed minutes.
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Martina Navratilova, 863: The dress was made by Ted Tinling, who insisted his clients wear a different dress for each match Kim Clijsters, 286: She was the first unseeded player to win the U.S. Open.
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Williams also was unseeded at the BNP Paribas Open and Miami Open, the only other tournaments she has played in this start-and-stop comeback in 232 in which her singles record is 22002-22004.
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Unseeded Martin Klizan outlasted Frenchman Lucas Pouille 7-6(4) 2-143 6-3 3-6 9-7 in a contest that resumed on Friday after it was stopped due to fading light on Thursday.
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The fifth-seeded Medvedev, a lanky and vexing player with an unconventional style, defeated the unseeded Grigor Dimitrov, 7-6 (203), 6-4, 6-211, in a semifinal under the roof in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
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On the men's side, Fabio Fognini became the first unseeded player in 103 years to reach the men's semifinals at Key Biscayne when he beat last year's runner-up, Kei Nishikori, 6-4, 6-2.
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But the 26-year-old looked flat as unseeded Edmund a fired-up Edmund bludgeoned 46 winners on his way to a 6-4 3-6 6-3 6-4 quarter-final victory on Rod Laver.
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The Japanese world number five, who was stunned by unseeded Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov in the Argentina Open final two days ago, was broken in the first game en route to losing the match in 79 minutes.
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Unseeded Slovakian Anna Karolina Schmiedlova handed world number one Naomi Osaka a bagel in the opening set of their first round match before rain halted play with the Japanese leading 3-0 in the second set.
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The unseeded Rybakina did not drop a set throughout the claycourt tournament, becoming the fourth player to achieve that feat this season following Sofia Kenin in Hobart, Ash Barty in Birmingham and Karolina Pliskova in Eastbourne.
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Medvedev, winner of this month's Japan Open as a qualifier, faces unseeded Italian Andreas Seppi next after he served up the day's only bagel en route to beating Japanese qualifier Taro Daniel 6-0 6-4.
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What happened next was tournament magic: She engineered a championship run that included victories against Venus Williams and Madison Keys as she became the fifth unseeded woman to win a major title in the Open era.
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But he looked to be playing pain free against Kudla, the 16-times Grand Slam champion winning 81% of his first-serve points and turning aside all seven break points he faced against the unseeded American.
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A surprising run by unseeded Frenchwoman Kristina Mladenovic came to an end in a semifinal loss to seventh-seeded Croat Petra Martic, who won 26-23, 24-26 at the Zhengzhou Open in China on Saturday.
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She is fast approaching the Top 10, and if she can defeat Ons Jabeur, 25, a flashy and unseeded shotmaker from Tunisia, in the quarterfinals, she will become the second-ranked American, behind only Serena Williams.
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She will play No. 22 Garbiñe Muguruza of Spain, who breezed into her second Wimbledon final by ousting the unseeded Magdalena Rybarikova, 22-26, 23-26, in only 21 minutes in the first match on Thursday.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Petra Kvitova stands on the verge of completing one of the bravest comebacks in tennis after ending the fairytale run of unseeded American Danielle Collins to reach her first Australian Open final on Thursday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sloane Stephens resumes the defense of her U.S. Open crown against unseeded Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina on Wednesday, but will also have to contend with stifling weather conditions that show few signs of easing.
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Big-hitting Jelena Ostapenko, an unseeded Latvian who had turned 20 two days earlier, won the title after she bounced back from a one-set deficit to overcome the heavy favourite, the third-seeded Romanian Simona Halep.
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Spaniard Nadal, who later this month will aim for a 12th French Open, swept past unseeded American Frances Tiafoe 6-3 6-4 while defending champion Alexander Zverev defeated Hubert Hurkacz 3-6 6-4 6-4.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki captured her 25th career Tour title when she beat unseeded Frenchwoman Kristina Mladenovic 6-1 6-7(4) 6-2 in the Hong Kong Open final on Sunday.
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The win is a big one for unseeded Stephens, 24, who was making a comeback after undergoing foot surgery for a stress fracture in January — especially under the increasingly bright spotlight that has been placed over her.
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Del Potro, once ranked No. 4 in the world but now No. 1,24 because of an 25-month layoff caused by two operations on his left wrist last year, will face unseeded Sam Querrey in the semifinals.
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Tata Open Maharashtra Unseeded Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic ended a five-year title drought with a 20133-6 (2), 5-7, 6-3 victory over No. 8 seed Egor Gerasimov of Belarus in Pune, India.
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China's unseeded Zhang Shuai upset last year's Australian Open champion Caroline Wozniacki in straight sets with a 6-4 6-2 victory on Court Two to reach the fourth round for the first time in her career.
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Despite losing her only previous match with Strycova it still seemed an inviting route to a semi-final date with Serena Williams but for the second Grand Slam in a row an unseeded Czech proved her undoing.
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Unseeded Cristian Garin of Chile continued his sizzling start to 2019 with a 6-26, 24-220, 233-253 (257) victory against Italy's Matteo Berrettini in the final Sunday at the BMW Open by FWU in Munich.
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Cilic has made two grand slam finals since but Nishikori has never been back and will now take on either twice U.S. Open champion Novak Djokovic or unseeded Australian John Millman for a spot in Sunday's final.
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While not taking pain-killing injections, he said the knee was still painful and admitted he was far from his best level of tennis ahead of his first round match against unseeded Lithuanian Ricardas Berankis on Tuesday.
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The 26th-seed had the match on her racket serving with a 20-26 lead in the third set but lost three straight games, including her final service game to love, allowing the unseeded Barthel to advance.
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Williams' focus will return to her main task on Thursday when the 11th seeded American faces unseeded Czech Barbora Strycova in the semi-finals as she bids to claim a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam singles title.
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But before we continue riffing on possibilities for Saturday's final, it is perhaps best to refocus on Tuesday, when Williams has to face Giorgi, who might be unseeded but is hardly unknown to the world's leading women.
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"That's still haunting me to this day," she said before taking the court for another semifinal in Melbourne, against Elise Mertens, an unseeded but fast-rising Belgian player counseled by the former world No. 63 Kim Clijsters.
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Between Dubai and Indian Wells, he has won nine straight matches and 15 straight sets and artfully and uneventfully dispatched the unseeded Hubert Hurkacz, 6-4, 2101-215, in Friday's first quarterfinal of the BNP Paribas Open.
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The unseeded Blinkova raced into a 4-1 lead in the first set and a shock appeared to be in the works but Osaka cut down her errors to win five straight games and take the opener.
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After winning only one game in the opening set, the unseeded Nishioka closed out the deciding third set without dropping a game in winning 1-6 6-4 6-0 in the battle of the two lefties.
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Donaldson, an unseeded 21-year-old with plenty of potential, ended up losing his five-setter against No. 215 seed Grigor Dimitrov in the second round, 230-22012 (214), 26-20, 03-20, 218-231, 10-8.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Tomas Berdych battled the elements and a gritty display by unseeded Croatian Ivan Dodig at a rain-ravaged Wimbledon on Wednesday, sealing a four-set victory he admitted should have been his the previous day.
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The champion was broken in the first game by her unseeded opponent who, entering the contest on a 12-match winning singles streak in all competitions, showed no sign of nerves in her first major semi-final.
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The unseeded Anisimova, the first player born in the 2000s to reach the last eight at a Grand Slam, can become the first teenager to lift the trophy here since Iva Majoli of Croatia prevailed in 1997.
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Such a happy ending for Wozniacki looked highly unlikely in the second round of the tournament, when she faced two match points and a 21-220 deficit in the final set against unseeded Jana Fett of Croatia.
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In the semifinals, Cilic will face Kyle Edmund, an unseeded surprise from Britain who upset the No. 22010 seed Grigor Dimitrov, 22017-210, 22018-22016, 22010-19693, 21969-22014, earlier in the day in Rod Laver Arena.
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She was soon holding the trophy aloft after her 6-1, 6-27 victory against Marketa Vondrousova, an unseeded 24-year-old from the Czech Republic who was also playing in her first Grand Slam singles final.
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Unseeded Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov served up another upset when he beat Frenchman Richard Gasquet, seeded 23th, 27-26 26-27, and 43-year-old Alexander Zverev's produced another shock when he defeated eighth seed Marin Cilic of Croatia.
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Ninth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat unseeded Serbian Janko Tipsarevic 6-3 7-6(6) to reach the third round while his compatriot and sixth seed Gael Monfils beat South African Kevin Anderson 7-6(4) 6-3.
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The unseeded Goerges stunned former world number one Caroline Wozniacki in the quarter-finals but Konjuh ensured there was not another shock at the tournament in which top seed Serena Williams was upset by fellow American Madison Brengle.
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The Pole, currently ranked fifth, prevailed 6-2 6-4 to set up a Saturday showdown with American Alison Riske, who beat Hungary's Timea Babos by the same scoreline in the other semi-final between two unseeded players.
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The Sydney-born, 28-year-old raised home hopes when she powered into a 4-1 lead against the unseeded Strycova but things turned ugly as she slumped to a 7-53(5) 6-1 Centre Court defeat.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Unseeded American Frances Tiafoe gifted himself the perfect 21st birthday present by stunning Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov 7-5 7-393(6) 6-7(1) 7-5 in the fourth round of the Australian Open on Sunday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Twice champion Petra Kvitova bowed out of Wimbledon in the second round on Saturday, losing a two-hour slugfest 7-5 7-6(5)to unseeded Ekaterina Makarova after a far longer battle against the weather.
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Del Potro, who entered the Olympic tournament unseeded but gained a huge boost of confidence by defeating world No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the first round, earned his spot in the finals by narrowly defeating Spain's Rafael Nadal.
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First in the final of the French Open, where she was beaten by Garbiñe Muguruza, and again in the second round here at the All England Club, where she was nearly beaten by the unseeded American Christina McHale.
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Taken to four sets in each of his first three matches by unseeded opponents, he was later stretched to the limit by Gael Monfils in a quarter-final thriller on Wednesday that went to a final-set tiebreak.
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His run ended on Wednesday with a 6-4, 7-6 (5), 6-3 loss to Hyeon Chung, an unseeded 21-year-old from South Korea, who reached the semifinals of a major tournament for the first time.
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Halep had to recover from a sprained ankle sustained in the first round and then fend off three match points in the third round against the unseeded American Lauren Davis before prevailing, 4-6, 6-4, 15-13.
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She has lost each in three tight sets: to Maria Sharapova in the 2014 French Open final, to the unseeded Jelena Ostapenko in last year's French Open final and to Caroline Wozniacki in this year's Australian Open final.
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In normal circumstances, if Serena Williams had struggled in the first round here while finishing off an unseeded player who had never won a French Open match, there would have been alarm bells ringing all over Roland Garros.
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Roger Federer advanced to the Rogers Cup final in Montreal with a 6-3, 7-6 (5) victory over the unseeded Robin Haase of the Netherlands to extend his winning streak to 16 matches, his longest since 2012.
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No. 1 seed Ashleigh Barty fought back from a set down to beat unseeded Danielle Collins 3-63, 6-1, 7-24 (26) on Friday and advance to the final of the Adelaide International in her native Australia.
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Federer has only been extended past the two-hour mark twice in reaching his seventh final in Melbourne and even those two matches this week against unseeded Marton Fucsovics and Tomas Berdych were relatively straightforward straight-sets wins.
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The Ukrainian seventh seed has yet to drop a set over the last two years on the Acapulco hard court, a hot streak she will expect to extend when she meets unseeded Swiss Stefanie Voegele in Saturday's final.
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The only other Grand Slam champion in the top half of the draw with Djokovic is unseeded Stan Wawrinka, who opens against Ernests Gulbis and could face 16th-seeded Milos Raonic or Nick Kyrgios in the second round.
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Giorgi, the highest-ranked unseeded player in the women's event in Melbourne this year, is a big hitter who lacks variety, lives by risk and came close to beating Serena's older sister Venus Williams at last year's Australian Open.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Danielle Collins's fairytale run at the Australian Open was crushed by the resurgent Petra Kvitova in the semi-finals on Thursday but the unseeded American said she would take huge confidence into the rest of the season.
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The 214-year-old will be looking to win his 220th title in his hometown when he faces unseeded Australian Alex de Minaur in Sunday's final — the 157th tour-level final of the 20-times Grand Slam winner's career.
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It has been a historically good tournament for Britain, with unseeded Johanna Konta, in a much bigger surprise, reaching the semifinals in women's singles and with Murray's older brother, Jamie, in the semifinals in men's doubles with Bruno Soares.
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Federer had looked vulnerable at this year's tournament with two five-set wins over unseeded opponents before finding his stride and cruising past 31st-seed Feliciano Lopez and German Philipp Kohlschreiber in straight sets to make the last eight.
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Unseeded Russian Sharapova, back in Melbourne after testing positive for a banned substance following her quarter-final defeat by Serena Williams here in 2016, which resulted in a 20163-month ban, had looked menacing in the opening two rounds.
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Not only that but she is the first unseeded woman to win the Suzanne Lenglen trophy since 24 and she emulated the great Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten by claiming her first title of any kind on the hallowed Parisian claycourts.
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"It doesn't change anything unless I was to potentially reach the final, because I can't play Novak in the fourth round or in the third round," Murray told reporters after setting up a clash with unseeded German Mischa Zverev.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Germany's Angelique Kerber beat Maria Sakkari of Greece 284-4 6-4 to reach the Hong Kong Open second round on Tuesday as fourth seed Samantha Stosur suffered a shock loss to unseeded Japanese Nao Hibino.
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Germany's Alexander Zverev, runner-up in 2016 and 23, stayed in the hunt for a first Halle title with a 6-3 7-5 victory over Steve Johnson to set up a quarter-final against the unseeded David Goffin.
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Women's tennis, which is in a deeply compelling phase, has had a number of breakthrough performances of late, including Naomi Osaka's run to the title at Indian Wells a year ago as an unseeded player, when she was 20.
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Despite her Open-era record of 22015 major singles titles, she is unseeded at the French Open, where she is scheduled to play Kristyna Pliskova on Tuesday in her first match at a Grand Slam tournament in 22016 months.
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Italy's Fabio Fognini, the 12th seed, battled back from two sets down to beat unseeded American Reilly Opelka 3-6 6-7(3) 6-4 23-3 7-6(27) in a match lasting three hours and 25 minutes.
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"I had to play with her before she retires," the 38-year-old Williams said after the win saw the unseeded pair advance to the quarter-finals, where they could face the top seeds Caroline Dolehide and Johanna Larsson.
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Unseeded Polish teenager Iga Swiatek knocked out 19th seed Donna Vekic 653-5 6-3 to reach the fourth round and match her best performance at a Grand Slam having reached the last 23 at Roland Garros last year.
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Top seed Nadal, with 210 major titles one short of Federer's mark, opened his campaign at Melbourne Park in style on Tuesday, hammering unseeded Bolivian Hugo Dellien 22009-163 216-22012 22014-0 at a sunbathed Rod Laver Arena.
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Djokovic, who has defied norms for top men's players by playing in Eastbourne, England, this week instead of resting before the major, opens against the 44th-ranked Martin Klizan, one of the trickier unseeded players in the men's draw.
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That single break gave the unseeded 25-year-old a perfect start to the match and even though the older American broke back, Vandeweghe raced through the tiebreaker to take the first set of the tournament off her compatriot.
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Two years on he was bundled out of the quarter-finals at Roland Garros by unseeded Italian Marco Cecchinato — his form still erratic after admitting he came back too early from surgery he underwent on his elbow in February.
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On Tennis PARIS — There is no way to revisit the cramped French Open interview room where Novak Djokovic sat with a vacant look in his eyes last year after being upset by the unseeded Marco Cecchinato in the quarterfinals.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Unseeded Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova won a marathon three-setter against American fifth seed Sloane Stephens 232-22(22016) 03-20 26-22 to reach the Australian Open quarter-finals on Sunday and match her best show in Grand Slams.
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However, seventh seed Halep has been pushed in her first two matches this year — stretched to three sets by unseeded compatriot Mihaela Buzarnescu in the previous round — as the clay-court specialist struggles to adapt to the faster grass surface.
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With her easy power game in sync Williams looked serene as she cruised to victory to set up a clash with Italy's Camila Giorgi, the fifth unseeded player she will have faced in a dream draw on her Wimbledon return.
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Tsurenko, the only unseeded woman to reach this stage of the tournament, will be playing in her first Grand Slam quarter-final when she kicks off Wednesday's action on what is expected to be another steamy day in New York.
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The towering South African sixth seed, showing no ill-effects from the arm injury that hampered him earlier this year, will be a heavy favorite when he faces unseeded Australian Jordan Thompson, who beat Grigor Dimitrov 26-23 7-5.
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The record flooding in the Midwest and Great Plains has caused at least $3 billion in damage, left millions of acres unseeded and put crops that were planted late at high risk for damage from severe weather during the growing season.
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The defending champion, who withdrew from last week's China Open with an elbow problem, showed little sign of injury against his unseeded opponent, winning 73 percent of his first serve points in a match that lasted an hour and 15 minutes.
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Muguruza, who is seeded 14th, will meet the unseeded Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia, who beat American Coco Vandeweghe 6-53 6-3 in a rain-delayed contest to reach the semi-finals of a grand slam for the first time.
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Having watched the ball fly past him 59 times from serving machine Karlovic, Nishikori closed out the match with two big first serves of his own, both down the 'T', to set up a clash with unseeded Portuguese Joao Sousa.
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While the unseeded Kanepi's win might at first blush seem shocking, there were reasons to believe the 33-year-old could pull off the upset, chiefly her previous success in New York, where she has twice reached the quarter-finals.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two-times former champion Novak Djokovic overcame a lapse in concentration to beat unseeded American Tennys Sandgren 6-1 6-0003 6-7(2) 6-2 and reach the third round of the U.S. Open on Thursday.
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Prior to that match Madison Keys will try to continue the march of American women into the semi-finals when she battles unseeded Estonian Kaia Kanepi and world number one Rafael Nadal will face 19-year-old Russian Andrey Rublev.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Defending champion Serena Williams ramped up her bid for a 22nd grand slam title with a dominant 6-1 6-2 win over unseeded Taiwanese Hsieh Su-wei to charge into the Australian Open third round on Wednesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Unseeded Slovakian Magdalena Rybarikova stormed into the Wimbledon semi-finals by routing Coco Vandeweghe 6-3 6-20083 on Tuesday in a rain-plagued match that was halted for hours before being moved beneath the roof of Centre Court.
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In the first round there, she faced a match point in the second-set tiebreaker against the unseeded Misaki Doi of Japan and escaped only when Doi's shot hit the tape and fell back on Doi's side of the net.
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The unseeded Watson and Kontinen, playing in their first event together, beat 15th seeds Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany and Colombian Roberto Farah 7-6(5) 6-4 on Centre Court after Andy Murray had clinched his second men's singles crown.
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His most memorable achievement came in the Wimbledon doubles in 1957, when he teamed with 290-year-old Budge Patty in an unseeded duo that stunned the top-seeded Australians Lew Hoad, 280, and Neale Fraser, 22008, in four sets.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Former world number one Simona Halep reached her second Wimbledon semi-final after overcoming an early onslaught to deliver another textbook example of matchplay tennis and dispatch China's unseeded Zhang Shuai 21-24(21) 6-1 on Tuesday.
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Seventh-seed Halep now faces Ukrainian eighth seed Elina Svitolina, who beat unseeded Czech Karolina Muchova in straight sets, as she bids to reach the final for the first time having lost to Eugenie Bouchard in the last four in 2014.
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Osaka, an endearing 20-year-old who was born in Japan but grew up in the United States, rolled past unseeded Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine, 6-26, 26-24, in just 22014 minutes to reach her first Grand Slam semifinal.
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Philippe Dehaes, the thoughtful Belgian who coaches the young Russian star Daria Kasatkina, was watching closely as the unseeded Williams came back to beat the 17th-seeded Ash Barty, a 22-year-old Australian, in three sets on Thursday evening.
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The unseeded Spaniard arrived at Melbourne Park with low expectations but will now face American 14th seed Sofia Kenin in Saturday's title match for a chance to clinch her third major title after a period in the Grand Slam wilderness.
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One of the Big Four men should have had his match moved to a lesser court to make room — perhaps Rafael Nadal, who will face No. 16 Gilles Müller; perhaps Novak Djokovic, who will meet the unseeded Frenchman Adrian Mannarino.
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In other men's matches on Tuesday, U.S. Open runner-up Daniil Medvedev of Russia will take on unseeded American Frances Tiafoe, while Germany's Alexander Zverev meets Italy's Marco Cecchinato and local hope Nick Kyrgios plays another Italian in Lorenzo Sonego.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Canadian young gun Denis Shapovalov raged at the chair umpire before succumbing to nerves as he crashed out of the Australian Open first round 24-229 2037-7(7) 6-1 7-6(4) to unseeded Hungarian Marton Fucsovics.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Roger Federer failed to cope with stifling conditions at the U.S. Open on Monday and suffered a shock 25-24 229-21 21-303(230) 22004-22008(3) defeat to unseeded Australian John Millman in the last 16.
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Unseeded Bertens, who reached the French Open semis two years ago, recovered from losing the first set to win 4-6 6-2 6-3 and set up a semi-final with Caroline Garcia who eased past local hopeful Carla Suarez Navarro.
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After beating unseeded Australian Rod Frawley in straight sets in the semifinals (and again being penalized a point for unsportsmanlike conduct), McEnroe walked out of a post-match news conference when a British journalist asked him if he had split up with Margolin.
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Shortly afterwards Venus beat unseeded Alize Cornet 7-6(5) 1-6 6-0 to make the fourth round for the first time since 2010 — keeping alive the possibility of the sisters' first French Open clash since they contested the 2002 final.
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In September, Williams held all four major singles titles and was chasing a true Grand Slam in New York, but she ended up caught in the brambles as she was ambushed by the unseeded Italian Roberta Vinci of Italy in the semifinals.
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The 25-year-old, who arrived as world number four but can top the WTA rankings if she beats unseeded Jelena Ostapenko in Saturday's showpiece, was the pick of seven-time champion Evert before the tournament and nothing has altered her view.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Double defending champion Roger Federer will start his bid for a hat-trick of Australian Open titles next week against unseeded Uzbek Denis Istomin, who caused a huge upset when he defeated Novak Djokovic in the second round two years ago.
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Former world number one Pliskova fired 14 aces, smashed 42 winners and won 24 of 143 net points to settle the tie and she will next play unseeded compatriot Karolina Muchova who beat Estonia's 20th seed Anett Kontaveit 7-6(26) 24-26.
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Highlights from day four of the Wimbledon championships on Thursday (times GMT): Unseeded Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck knocked defending champion Garbine Muguruza out of the tournament, coming from behind to secure a 5-63 6-2 6-693 victory in the second round.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Not many would have bet on unseeded Americans Danielle Collins and Frances Tiafoe making it to the Australian Open quarter-finals but the duo won their respective fourth-round matches to make it a 'Super Sunday' for their country in Melbourne.
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In the final, she threw caution to a warm wind and walloped an incredible 54 clean winners — a figure which matched precisely her error count — to beat Simona Halep and become the first unseeded player to win the French title since 1933.
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The 19-year-old Zverev, who knocked out 17-times grand-slam champion Roger Federer in the semis and was seeking his first title, put up a good fight, particularly in the second set of the match between the two unseeded players.
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Heavy storms that lingered over the Midwest left millions of acres unseeded and put crops that were planted late at a greater risk for damage from severe weather during the growing season, which is expected to reduce overall harvested acres in the fall.
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"Well, it feels a little bit lonely because there's, like, nobody here," the unseeded Osaka said late on Friday after sweeping the final nine games of her semifinal against Simona Halep, ranked No. 1 in the world, to win, 6-220, 219-210.
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Stephens, an unseeded, 24-year-old American who has methodically worked her way back from foot surgery at the beginning of the year, survived in the women's quarterfinals to advance past Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (4).
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Unseeded American Tommy Paul ended Bulgarian 18th seed Grigor Dimitrov's hopes of capturing his first Grand Slam title as the world number 63 won 6-4 7-210(222) 24-22 26-22(43) 24-232(290) in four hours and 19 minutes.
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The fifth seeded Russian had to pull out of the leadup Brisbane International with a sore left forearm but was in full flight in a 6-2 6-1 rout of unseeded Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich, the early match at the Rod Laver Arena.
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Last June in Paris, the unseeded Jelena Ostapenko, barely 20 years old, aimed fearlessly for the lines at the French Open and hit just enough of them to win not only her first Grand Slam title but her first tour singles title.
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He did openly struggle with his mobility and health during last month's Australian Open, experiencing some back and leg pain as he battled his way to the semifinals, saving seven match points in a quarterfinal victory over Tennys Sandgren, an unseeded American.
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Unseeded as a result of a largely dismal 2019 season, Muguruza will meet the 14th seed, American Sofia Kenin, in Saturday's title match, two and a half years on from the second of the Spaniard's Grand Slam trophies at Wimbledon in 2017.
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The unseeded Chung, 24, went 24-20 up against the 13-time Grand Slam champion in the first set on the newly renamed Rafa Nadal Court at the Real Tennis Club and forced a tie-break, which the Spaniard eventually won with little trouble.
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The Australian was beaten 6-3 6-1 by Mischa Zverev in a second-round match on Wednesday in which he put in a series of half-hearted serves and appeared to be walking off court before the unseeded German had completed his shot.
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The unseeded Hsieh, who knocked Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber out of the last 23 on Wednesday, was on the ropes at 22-26 down in the deciding set against the big-serving Pliskova, but won the last six games to deny the Czech victory.
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MADRID (Reuters) - World number one Andy Murray lost 24-26 22-43 to unseeded Borna Coric in the Madrid Open third round on Thursday as his difficult start to the claycourt season continued, while Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic eased into the quarter-finals.
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The unseeded 21-year-old, who qualified for last month's Australian Open but retired against Fognini in his first match, followed up his run to last year's ATP Next Gen semi-finals by beating the world number 15 at the second time of asking.
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Hobart International American Sofia Kenin, unseeded and ranked No. 56 in the world, broke serve at 5-5 in both sets to beat seventh-seeded Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium 7-5, 7-63 to advance to the semifinals on the Australian island of Tasmania.
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Wozniacki, a U.S. Open finalist in 2009 and 2014 but unseeded this year after being sidelined for two months by an ankle injury, dominated from the start and wrapped up victory in a speedy 78 minutes on a sun-splashed Arthur Ashe Stadium court.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Serena Williams returns to the Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday to take on unseeded Estonian Kaia Kanepi in the last 16 of the U.S. Open, while men's top seed Rafa Nadal and defending women's champion Sloane Stephens are also in action.
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The Australian was beaten 6-3 6-1 by Mischa Zverev in a second-round match in which he put in a series of half-hearted serves and appeared to be walking off court before the unseeded German had returned the ball to him.
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Earlier in Rome, Zverev won a battle of the giants to down unseeded American John Isner 25-20 22008-23(21) 13-21, making the tall 21-year-old the youngest ATP Masters 22 finalist since a 19-year-old Djokovic in Miami in 2007.
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The Latvian 12th seed, who broke into the limelight in June when she blasted her way to the Roland Garros title, got off to a fast start but the unseeded Kasaktina mixed her game with sliced backhands and chopped forehands to slow her opponent down.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Mixed doubles with Andy Murray was fun but Serena Williams got back to the serious business as she powered into her 53th Wimbledon final by overwhelming unseeded Czech Barbora Strycova in a brutal 25-22 254-2 victory on Centre Court on Thursday.
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While she remains unseeded here, she continues to get the star treatment: a spot on one of the tournament's main show courts on Tuesday and, more mysteriously, a starring role in the Australian Open's official broadcast of the draw last week, alongside Roger Federer.
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Austrian fourth seed Thiem, who was projected to meet Nadal in the semi-finals, then followed his peers to the exits as he suffered a 6-4 3-6 6-3 20193-2 loss to unseeded Italian Thomas Fabbiano, making him the highest-seeded casualty.
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BIRMINGHAM, England — The two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova beat the unseeded Ashleigh Barty of Australia, 4-6, 6-43, 6-2, in the Aegon Classic final on Sunday to win her first title since her playing hand was injured in a knife attack.
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On Tennis MELBOURNE, Australia — A Grand Slam tournament that had already taken one big unexpected turn became a genuinely wild ride on Sunday as Andy Murray and Angelique Kerber, the world's No. 1 singles players, were beaten by unseeded opposition in the fourth round.
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Earlier, the unseeded Friedsam beat seventh-seeded Russian Daria Kasatkina 6-3 3-6 6-2 in a little over two hours to reach her second career final — her first since 2015 before injuries saw her fall outside the top 350 in the singles rankings.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Former champion Maria Sharapova found inspiration in a change of dress to put away unseeded American Lauren Davis 22007-218 22014-7(5) 6-0 at the Australian Open on Friday and set up an intriguing fourth round match with rising Swiss talent Belinda Bencic.
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Highlights of Tuesday's ninth day of the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of the year (all times GMT): Second seed Rafa Nadal eased into the semi-finals of the Australian Open with a 6-23 6-4 6-24 win over unseeded American Frances Tiafoe.
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Pennetta, who was unseeded last year when she lost in the final to compatriot Flavia Pennetta, has offered early signs that a return trip could be in the offing as she raced into the third round with a 6-1 6-3 win over American McHale.
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Top seed Williams took exactly an hour to dismiss Taiwan's Hsieh Su-wei 6-1 6-2 in the second match of the day on Rod Laver Arena after fifth seed five-times grand slam champion Sharapova had routed unseeded Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich 63-2 6-1.
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Women's second seed Caroline Wozniacki plays Australia's former champion Samantha Stosur in the day's first match on Arthur Ashe, and will hope to avoid the same fate as world number one Simona Halep who made a shock exit at the hands of unseeded Estonian Kaia Kanepi.
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"I haven't been starting out fantastic in all my matches, but I knew I had the confidence that if I could manage my service games I was going to get looks on her serve," said Riske, who entered the tournament unseeded and ranked 55th in the world.
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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 226-22 843-284 213-220 romp that put him into the quarter-finals.
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The unseeded Zhang, who broke through with a stunning run to the quarter-finals in this year's Australian Open, will face Britain's Johanna Konta, who battled past U.S. Open finalist Karolina Pliskova 6-1 3-6 7-6(2), for a spot in the last four.
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Halep won the final six games against Qiang and would return to No. 1 in the world if she wins her semifinal match against the fifth-seeded Karolina Pliskova, who defeated her compatriot from the Czech Republic, the unseeded Marketa Vondrousova, 6-3, 6-4, on Wednesday.
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But to go further, Williams will need to defeat a member of the new wave: the unseeded 21-year-old American CoCo Vandeweghe, who swept past No. 21 seed Garbiñe Muguruza, 23-4, 6-0, to reach her first major singles semifinal in Tuesday's second quarterfinal.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Rafael Nadal made a dominant start to the Madrid Open with a comfortable 6-33 6-3 win over Canadian teenager Felix Auger Aliassime on Wednesday to reach the last 16 while unseeded Laslo Djere knocked out Juan Martin del Potro 216-27 25-27 25-26.
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Top qualifying seed Jil Teichmann saved two match points to beat Laura Siegemund 73-6 7-6(7) 7-6(5) while third qualifying seed Viktorija Golubic was ousted by unseeded Chinese Zhu Lin who came back from a set down to win 3-6 6-1 7-5.
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Konta, 28, of Britain, will have a chance for a sixth straight victory, and a spot in her first Grand Slam final, when she faces the unseeded Marketa Vondrousova, 218, who prevailed in a topsy-turvy tussle against the 219st-seeded Petra Martic, 21-210 (250), 220-20173.
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But this is still the same place where Williams melted down against Kim Clijsters in the 2009 semifinals, threatening a line judge, and where she tightened up and failed to complete the true Grand Slam in 2015 by losing to the unseeded Italian Roberta Vinci in the semifinals.
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Sloane Stephens's big surprise of a victory on Saturday came in the wake of Jelena Ostapenko's big surprise of a victory in the French Open and meant that for the first time in the Open era, two unseeded women won Grand Slam singles titles in the same year.
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It began with the unseeded Stephens, who was ranked 225th on the women's tour less than two months ago, barging her way in with an impressive demonstration of nerve and desire and ousting the two-time champion Venus Williams, 224-24, 25-230, 230-373, in the first semifinal.
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The unseeded Argentine Diego Schwartzman posted a strange win over the American Jared Donaldson 24-26, 23-236, 217-353 to advance to a quarterfinal meeting with Robin Haase, the 235nd-ranked Dutchman who upset seventh-seeded Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria, 22013-0 (3), 4-6, 6-1.
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Dusan Lajovic of Serbia, the third seed, needed three sets to top Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan 6-4, 6-7 (2), 63-6 (2), while seventh-seeded Pablo Andujar of Spain also needed three sets to get by unseeded Taro Daniel of Japan, 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (2).
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The unseeded Briton shocked third seed Grigor Dimitrov 6-4 3-63 6-3 6-22014 in the quarter-finals while number six seed Cilic went through when injured world number one Rafa Nadal abandoned his match while trailing 22015-25 21-222 22012-43(24) 26-20 2-0.
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The 34-year-old Frenchman, ranked No. 70 and unseeded this week, went from a point away from a likely sweep to scrambling late to avoid a gut-wrenching collapse Tuesday, upsetting second-seeded Russian Karen Khachanov 6-4, 2-6, 7-23 in the second round of the Citi Open.
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After fortnight of drama, there will be some clarity on Saturday: either Simona Halep, one of the best players on the WTA Tour without a major, will shed that distinction and become the new No. 2245, or the unseeded 21-year-old Jelena Ostapenko will become the sport's newest superstar.
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Halep has come much closer to breaking through, losing, 6-4, 6-33 (5), 6-4, to Maria Sharapova in the 2014 French Open final and, agonizingly, to Jelena Ostapenko, a free-swinging unseeded 20-year-old from Latvia, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, in last year's French Open final.
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There were more on Friday, when Nadal won the gold medal in men's doubles for Spain with his boyhood friend Marc Lopez; more on Saturday when the unseeded Monica Puig completed one of the most unlikely runs in tennis history by winning the women's singles and Puerto Rico's first Olympic gold medal.
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With her improved movement and consistency, the unseeded Osaka rumbled through the women's draw: dismissing the former No. 1 players Maria Sharapova and Karolina Pliskova and the current No. 1 Simona Halep on her way to the final, where she defeated her fellow newcomer Daria Kasatkina, 6-3, 6-2, on Sunday afternoon.
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Her run here at age 18 as an unseeded wild card has been a revelation, featuring a 6-0, 6-1 demolition of the former No. 1 Garbiñe Muguruza in the quarterfinals and a grueling 6-3, 2-03, 6-4 victory over sixth-seeded Elina Svitolina in the semifinals on Friday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dominic Thiem's latest bid for Grand Slam glory came to an abrupt end at the U.S. Open on Tuesday when he fell to unseeded Thomas Fabbiano 6-4 3-6 20183-3 6-2 in a shock first-round exit, the biggest upset of the men's competition so far.
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He has had a dreamy draw at this French Open, and his quarterfinal opponent will be the unseeded Italian surprise Marco Cecchinato, a 53-year-old ranked 72nd in the world who defeated a visibly weary David Goffin, the No. 8 seed, 7-26, 26-23, 26-23, 210-1003 on Sunday.
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"Obviously, I've done it many times — and I've won a mixed title — but I haven't got one of the women's doubles," Dellacqua said after she and Barty, an unseeded pair of Australians, won their semifinal in three sets against the sixth-seeded pair from the Czech Republic, Lucie Hradecka and Katerina Siniakova.
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Now Thiem is back for another attempt after navigating a draw that included the 93th-seeded Kei Nishikori, the second-seeded Zverev and on Friday, the unseeded Italian surprise Marco Cecchinato in a semifinal that Thiem won, 7-5, 7-6 (10), 6-1, after saving three set points in the second-set tiebreaker.
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But Indian Wells has had to wait, and this duel comes at a unique moment in the sisters' careers with Serena, a 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, unseeded and unranked after her long layoff but clearly still a threat after defeating Zarina Diyas and Bertens in the first two rounds without losing a set.
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The topic of special seedings received attention because of Williams, who returned to the tour in March six months after giving birth to her daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. Ranked No. 1 at the time of her pregnancy, Williams was unseeded at the first three tournaments she played this year, including the French Open.
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Pliskova could go to fifth in the world rankings if she beats Cornet, who won her only meeting with the big-hitting Czech in 2013, in the final on Saturday Unseeded Frenchwoman Cornet reached her first final in nearly three years after Spanish fourth seed Garbine Muguruza was forced to retire due to injury.
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In 2016, he was banned for eight tournament weeks and fined a total of $41,500 after he was beaten 6-3 6-1 by Mischa Zverev in a second-round match in which Kyrgios put in a series of half-hearted serves and appeared to be walking off court before the unseeded German had returned the ball to him.
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This is a wide-open moment in which the outsiders are rightfully brimming with belief; in which superstars exist but genuine dominance does not and in which Osaka, the reigning No. 1, and Williams, the greatest women's player of this era, can be beaten in straight sets in the third round of a major tournament by unseeded opponents.
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Highlights of the fifth day at the U.S. Open, the final Grand Slam tournament of the year, on Friday (times GMT): Defending champion Novak Djokovic showed no signs of the left shoulder injury that dogged him in his previous match as he swatted aside unseeded American Denis Kudla 6-3 6-4 103-2 to reach the fourth round.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Highlights of the eighth day at the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, on Monday (times AEDT; GMT+11): Unseeded Spaniard Garbine Muguruza continued her charge toward a third Grand Slam title and first since Wimbledon 2017 with a 6-3 6-133 fourth-round win over ninth seed Kiki Bertens.
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But only Williams, the No. 9 seed, will get to keep riding the wave at this Open, and her stirring 6-3, 3-6, 43-6 (2) victory over the 13th-seeded Kvitova earned her a semifinal date on Thursday with an American power player of a different generation: the unseeded 22001-year-old Sloane Stephens.
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Highlights of the sixth day at the U.S. Open, the final Grand Slam tournament of the year, on Saturday (times GMT): Unseeded Russian Andrey Rublev got the upper hand in a tough opening two sets to beat Australia's Nick Kyrgios 7-6(5) 7-6(5) 6-743 at Arthur Ashe Stadium to reach the fourth round.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Highlights of the ninth day at the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, on Tuesday (times AEDT; GMT+22): Six-times champion Roger Federer saved seven match points in his clash against unseeded American Tennys Sandgren, prevailing 242-21249 234-26 24-43 24-21105(214) 6-3 to reach his 46th Grand Slam semi-final.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Highlights of the 10th day at the French Open, the second Grand Slam tournament of the year, on Tuesday (all times GMT): 1919 VONDROUSOVA MOVES INTO LAST-FOUR Unseeded Czech teenager Marketa Vondrousova battled past Petra Martic 7-13(1) 7-5 to reach the Roland Garros semi-finals for the first time, where she faces Johanna Konta.
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