The latest updates from Flushing Meadows on day five
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Swiatek is serving for the first set at 5-3. And on her second set point, at her advantage, she takes it, when Podoroska prods a return wide. After starting with three holds to love, the set got closer, but the eighth seed found a way through and she’s skipping to the back of the court to start the second set. She looks up for this – and most importantly, more confident than she has done for so much of this year.
Auger-Aliassime is broken back, so from 3-0 it’s now 3-3. And Keys, the 2017 runner-up and last year’s Australian Open champion, is a break down, 4-3, against Bondar. Not that I’m really concentrating on those two matches, because I’m waiting for Osaka’s big entrance. And right on cue, here she comes, with the day version of the Allen Iverson-inspired basketball-themed outfit she wore on Tuesday night, completing her own calendar slam of sorts after her jellyfish look at the Australian Open, her Eiffel Tower dress at the French Open and her Kill Bill-inspired Japanese kimono at Wimbledon. Her play wasn’t quite as eye-catching as her outfit in the first round, so she’ll…
