{"id":22243,"date":"2013-08-30T01:57:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T23:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/williams-crashes-out-of-us-open\/"},"modified":"2013-08-30T01:57:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T23:57:21","slug":"williams-crashes-out-of-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/williams-crashes-out-of-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams crashes out of US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=14989\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14989\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14989  \" alt=\"Two-time US Open champion Venus Williams loses to Jie Zheng Wednesday, but is the last time we will see her on the hard top in Flushing? Photo: Robert Sabo \/ New York Daily News\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/23a7f_open-tennis-usta-600x454.jpg\" width=\"378\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two-time US Open champion Venus Williams loses to Jie Zheng Wednesday, but is the last time we will see her on the hard top in Flushing? Photo: Robert Sabo \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Venus Williams has crashed out of the US Open after losing a thriller against Zheng Jie.<\/p>\n<p>Williams has only reached the third round at a grand slam once in the past two years, losing more than her fair share of close matches.<\/p>\n<p>And this was another one, Zheng eventually coming through 6-3 2-6 7-6 (7\/5) and then apologising to the crowd for beating one of their favourites.<\/p>\n<p>Rain made the final stages even more dramatic, with Williams breaking Zheng when she served for the match and forcing a tie-break, and she really should have brought up the first match point.<\/p>\n<p>But at 5-5 she dumped a simple volley in the net and then put a backhand wide to hand victory to her opponent after three hours and two minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Williams said: \u201cI should have made the shot. I think I was just rushing. I rushed so badly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a lot of opportunities in the match. I was always stepping up and putting myself in a good position. So this is a great sign. I\u2019m just not playing consistently enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just dug myself into so many holes the whole match. I just fought as hard as I could to get out of them, but sometimes it wasn\u2019t enough.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Birmingham Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more US Open news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/us-open\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/23a7f_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time US Open champion Venus Williams loses to Jie Zheng Wednesday, but is the last time we will see her on the hard top in Flushing? Photo: Robert Sabo \/ New York Daily News Venus Williams has crashed out of the US Open after losing a thriller against Zheng Jie. 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