US Open Tennis 2015 Results: Early Sunday Results, Highlights and Scores

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Published: September 6, 2015

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Three former champions were all in action Sunday at the 2015 U.S. Open, and that was just in the first group of matches as Serena Williams, Venus Williams and Marin Cilic all advanced.

The tournament is starting to sort the contenders from the pretenders as the fourth round got underway. Reaching the quarterfinal is almost an imaginary standard by which to judge whether a player—especially for those outside the perceived elite—is truly a threat to win a major tournament.

Let's take a look at which stars made the jump Sunday.    

 

Early Sunday Scores

 

Recap

In the first women's singles match from Sunday's early session, Venus Williams had little trouble dispatching Anett Kontaveit. The 23rd-seeded American prevailed in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1, needing roughly 50 minutes to seal the victory.

Williams did little wrong in the match, winning 84 percent of her first-serve points while picking up four aces to just two double-faults. The 35-year-old also won four of her five break-point opportunities.

Kontaveit was constantly on the defensive, as evidenced by the final game of the first set, per the U.S. Open Tennis:



After getting pushed hard in her first two matches, Williams has now won rather convincingly in her last two, which is an encouraging sign, per WTA Insider:



The bad news is that Williams will face her sister, Serena, in the next round after Serena Williams beat Madison Keys. Sportscaster Jackie Mesa Pepper is already looking forward to the potential drama in a Serena-Venus matchup:



Venus is looking forward to facing Serena, who is on target to complete the Grand Slam in 2015.

"I get very nervous [watching]," said the elder Williams sister, per ESPN.com's Greg Garber (via ABC News). "Even though I have to play her, I want her to w...
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