Saturday’s third-round action at the 2017 US Open included the continuation of world No.1 Karolina Pliskova‘s sluggish progress, Coco Vandeweghe‘e best ever result at her home Grand Slam, and qualifier Kaia Kanepi‘s spectacular resurgence.
Facing seed No.27 Zhang Shuai, last year’s runner-up Pliskova played down an arm injury and saved a match point at 4-5 in the second set, the set she had started with a 3-0 lead, but the Czech eventually rallied to a 3-6 7-5 6-4 triumph. All Pliskova’s matches this fortnight in New York have been tough, even the opener she won in straight sets, but she’s coming through and the injury doesn’t seem to be anything serious:
I did some recovery and just saw the physios and some ice bath and those stuff.