TALK OF THE TOWN AUG.29: ZHENG KNOCKS OUT VENUS (US OPEN)

Let’s start 2nd set, score 3-6, 5-2 for Venus and she gets the ace to give her the advantage in the duece. Later in the 2nd, same score and Venus serving for the set on her  2nd try and she Backhands it Zheng would then forehand it into the net and Venus wins the set! 3rd set now 3-6, 6-2, 2-4 for Venus and she forehands it to Zheng but she can’t get to Zheng’s return quick enough and Zheng wins that game. 3-6, 5-2, 5-4 now for Venus and she ties it up at 5 with a cross court shot. Same score now and Venus hits it out of the boundries, that’s a point for Zheng and Venus is down 3-6,6-2, 6-5. Same score now and Zheng hits it out so we go to a tiebreak. In the tiebreak now 4-4, the 2 ladies going back-and-forth and then Venus hits it a little long and Zheng goes up 5-4 in the tiebreaker. Match point now for Zheng, Venus just runs out of gas and Zheng wins the match and will advance! Zheng wins 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 on a tiebreaker score of 7-5. Venus hasn’t advanced past the second round since 2010.