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Serena to headline Day 3 at US Open

New York - Serena Williams will look to move one step closer to completing a calendar sweep of the four grand slams when she meets unseeded Kiki Bertens in a second-round US Open clash on Wednesday.

Top seed Williams, seeking to become the first woman since Steffi Graf in 1988 to complete a rare calendar Grand Slam, will face the tall, big-hitting Bertens in the third match of the day at Arthur Ashe Stadium.

A well-rested Williams, who needed only 30 minutes to win her first-round match when her opponent retired with a knee injury, will start a prohibitive favourite against her 110th-ranked opponent from the Netherlands.

It will be the first career match-up between Williams and Bertens.

Defending men's champion Marin Cilic, the ninth seed, will also be in action as he faces Russian Evgeny Donskoy.

In other men's action, top seed Novak Djokovic will cap the night session when he battles unseeded Austrian Andreas Haider-Maurer under the lights.

Serbian Djokovic dropped only three games in a first-round canter, but might get a tougher contest from world number 52 Haider-Maurer, who downed Canadian Vasek Pospisil in five sets on Monday.

Eighth seed Rafa Nadal, who survived a dangerous first-round opponent in Croatian Borna Coric, will be up against unseeded Argentine Diego Schwartzman in a daytime match in the Louis Armstrong Stadium.

US Open results on Tuesday, the second day of the 2015 tournament at Flushing Meadows (x denotes seeded player):

Men

First round

Stan Wawrinka (SUI x5) bt Albert Ramos (ESP) 7-5, 6-4, 7-6 (8/6)

Hyeon Chung (KOR) bt James Duckworth (AUS) 6-3, 6-1, 6-2

Ruben Bemelmans (BEL) bt Gilles Muller (LUX) 6-4, 1-6, 6-4, 6-4

Jack Sock (USA x28) bt Vctor Estrella (DOM) 6-2, 6-3, 6-2

Viktor Troicki (SRB x22) bt Francis Tiafoe (USA) 7-5, 6-4, 6-3

Rajeev Ram (USA) bt Ryan Harrison (USA) 7-6 (7/3), 6-4, 6-1

Aljaz Bedene (GBR) bt Ernests Gulbis (LAT) 3-6, 6-4, 3-0 - retired

Donald Young (USA) bt Gilles Simon (FRA x11) 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4

Kevin Anderson (RSA x15) bt Andrey Rublev (RUS) 7-6 (7/1), 6-7 (5/7), 7-5, 6-3

Austin Krajicek (USA) bt Santiago Giraldo (COL) 3-6, 7-6 (8/6), 7-6 (8/6), 7-6 (7/1)

Denis Istomin (UZB) bt Benjamin Becker (GER) 6-7 (9/11), 6-4, 6-4, 6-1

Dominic Thiem (AUT x20) bt Daniel Gimeno (ESP) 7-5, 6-3, 7-5

Thomaz Belluci (BRA x30) bt James Ward (GBR) 6-1, 7-5, 6-3

Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN) bt Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) 6-4, 2-6, 6-7 (7/9), 6-1, 6-2

Adrian Mannarino (FRA) bt Konstantin Kravchuk (RUS) 7-6 (8/6), 6-4, 6-1

Andy Murray (GBR x3) bt Nick Kyrgios (AUS) 7-5, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1

Tomas Berdych (CZE x6) bt Bjorn Fratangelo (USA) 6-3, 6-2, 6-4

Jurgen Melzer (AUT) bt Denis Kudla (USA) 6-3, 7-5, 6-1

Nicolas Mahut (FRA) bt Sam Querrey (USA) 7-5, 7-6 (8/6), 7-5

Guillermo Garcia Lopez (ESP x31) bt Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) 7-6 (7/4).4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1

Bernard Tomic (AUS x24) bt Damir Dzumhur (BIH) 5-7, 7-6 (7/4), 6-4, 6-3

Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) bt Aleksandr Nedovyesov (KAZ) 6-0, 7-6 (7/2), 1-0 - retired

Robin Haase (NED) bt Dustin Brown (GER) 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4

Richard Gasquet (FRA x12) bt Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS) 4-6, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3, 2-0 - retired

John Isner (USA x13) bt Malek Jaziri (TUN) 6-2, 6-3, 6-4

Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) bt John-Patrick Smith (AUS) 6-1, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7/4)

Jir Vesel (CZE) bt Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) 6-4, 6-4, 6-4

Ivo Karlovic (CRO x21) bt Federico Del Bonis (ARG) 6-3, 7-5, 7-5

Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER x29) bt Alexander Zverev (GER) 6-7 (0/7), 6-2, 6-0, 2-6, 6-4

Lukas Rosol (CZE) bt Jared Donaldson (USA) 7-6 (9/7), 6-0, 7-6 (7/4)

Steve Darcis (BEL) bt Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) 6-7 (2/7), 6-3, 6-2, 3-1 - retired

Roger Federer (SUI x2) bt Leonardo Mayer (ARG) 6-1, 6-2, 6-2

Women

First round

Petra Kvitova (CZE x5) bt Laura Siegemund (GER) 6-1, 6-1

Nicole Gibbs (USA) bt Lourdes Domnguez (ESP) 6-3, 3-6, 6-4

Danka Kovinic (MNE) bt Aleksandra Krunic (SRB) 4-6, 7-5, 6-1

Anna Karolna Schmiedlov (SVK x32) bt Julia Goerges (GER) 6-3, 6-4

Andrea Petkovic (GER x18) bt Caroline Garcia (FRA) 3-6, 6-4, 7-5

Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt Laura Robson (GBR) 3-6, 6-3, 7-5

Johanna Konta (GBR) bt Louisa Chirico (USA) 6-3, 6-0

Garbie Muguruza (ESP x9) bt Carina Witthoeft (GER) 6-2, 6-4

Sara Errani (ITA x16) bt Mayo Hibi (JPN) 6-0, 6-1

Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) bt Annika Beck (GER) 6-4, 1-6, 6-4

Evgeniya Rodina (RUS) bt Tereza Mrdeza (CRO) 6-2, 6-2

Samantha Stosur (AUS x22) bt Tmea Babos (HUN) 6-3, 6-4

Flavia Pennetta (ITA x26) bt Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS) 6-1, 3-6, 6-1

Monica Niculescu (ROM) bt Alexandra Panova (RUS) 7-6 (7/3), 5-7, 6-3

Petra Cetkovsk (CZE) bt Christina McHale (USA) 4-6, 6-4, 6-3

Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x4) bt Jamie Loeb (USA) 6-2, 6-0

Lesya Tsurenko (UKR) bt Lucie Safarova (CZE x6) 6-4, 6-1

Varvara Lepchenko (USA) bt Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) 6-1, 6-1

Mona Barthel (GER) bt Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL) 5-7, 7-6 (7/4), 6-1

Olga Govortsova (BLR) bt Irina Begu (ROM x28) 6-1, 0-6, 7-6 (7/3)

Victoria Azarenka (BLR x20) bt Lucie Hradeck (CZE) 6-1, 6-2

Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) bt Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 6-3, 6-1

Karin Knapp (ITA) bt Ajla Tomljanovic (CRO) 6-7 (1/7), 6-2, 6-4

Angelique Kerber (GER x11) bt Alexandra Dulgheru (ROM) 6-3, 6-1

Barbora Strycova (CZE) bt Timea Bacsinszky (SUI x14) 7-5, 6-0

Wang Qiang (CHN) bt Maria Sakkari (GRE) 7-5, 6-2

Camila Giorgi (ITA) bt Johanna Larsson (SWE) 6-3, 6-3

Sabine Lisicki (GER x24) bt Aliaksandra Sasnovich (BLR) 6-1, 6-4

Kurumi Nara (JPN) bt Alize Cornet (FRA x27) 2-6, 6-4, 6-4

Shelby Rogers (USA) bt Sachia Vickery (USA) 6-2, 6-2

Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) bt Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) 6-0, 6-3

Simona Halep (ROM x2) bt Marina Erakovic (NZL) 6-2, 3-0 - retired

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