Ana Ivanovic Loses to Serena Williams in U.S. Open

Serena Williams enters the final 8 of the US Open 2011 with a comfortable straight-sets win against Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic. The 6-3, 6-4 win gave Williams a chance to getting a fourth title at Flushing Meadows.

Via Guardian:

Ivanovic, the 16th seed, struggled on her serve throughout the match at a blustery Arthur Ashe Stadium, successful with only 51% of her first serves and winning only 29% of points on her second. Twenty-nine unforced errors and eight double faults by the Serb made the task easier for Williams, who will face Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, the 17th seed from Russia, in the last eight.

Williams has not dropped a set on her run to the last 16 and hardly looked in danger of doing so as she raced into an early advantage, breaking her opponent’s first service game on her way to a 3-0 lead. Ivanovic began to settle a little, however, and, after winning her second service game, the 2008 French Open champion ramped up the pressure, breaking back in the fifth to trail 2-3.

But errors began to litter Ivanovic’s game once again and another break at 3-4 paved the way for Williams to serve to love in the next and wrap up the set in 33 minutes.