Novak Djokovic, the 24-time Grand Slam champion, battled through injury to reach the fourth round, making Cameron Norrie the last British singles player to lose at the US Open.
Following a 6-4, 6-7 (3-7) 6-2, 6-3 defeat in New York, Norrie, 30, has now lost all seven of his meetings with the 38-year-old Serb.
Djokovic, who is competing for a 25th consecutive major title, had a bad back injury in the opening set that required a medical timeout.
Early in the second set, the four-time US Open champion requested more care.
Seven weeks ago, he lost in the Wimbledon semi-finals, which he won in his first tournament.
In his on-court interview following a nearly three-hour contest, Djokovic said, “You want to win in straight sets without any drama,” but that’s not possible.
British No. 2 Norrie said he was “ready for anything” from No. 7 seed Djokovic, including witnessing his opponent’s fitness issues before regaining his level.
However, the 35-year-old was unable to entice Djokovic into gruesome physical fights as he had hoped.
When Norrie moved a breakup early in the third set, he briefly threatened to shock the match.
However, Djokovic quickly responded by hitting a double fault on break point, and Norrie largely failed to stop him. He then regained control with a precise serving performance.
Since Jimmy Connors, who was also 38 years old, in 1991, Djokovic became the oldest man to reach the US Open fourth round.
“I’m still trying to find my groove,” I said. Djokovic said, “Today I played the best I’ve ever done in a tournament.”
Dates: August 24 through September 7 in Flushing Meadows, New York
Aryna Sabalenka, the defending champion, says Leylah Fernandez’s impressive tie-break record, which she beat against Canada, is down to “trust” in her game.
In Friday’s night session at Flushing Meadows, top seed Sabalenka defeated 2021 runner-up Fernandez 7-6 (7-2).
Sabalenka’s 18th consecutive winning tie-break, using the deciding first-to-seven method, claimed the second set.
The 27-year-old Belarusian is pursuing her goal of becoming the first woman to win consecutive New York titles since Serena Williams in 2014.
When I reach the tie-break, Sabalenka said, “I am aware that there are no doubts and I just need to go for my shots.”
I’m just being honest with myself about how important my game is. I feel pretty good about myself.
When the crowd on Louis Armstrong Stadium saw a wedding proposal on the big screen, Sabalenka’s focus did not wane.
It was a very sweet moment, but I made an effort to not start grinning because it was so adorable. The three-time major champion said, “I was just trying to keep focusing on my game.”
She remarked, “I don’t want this kind of proposal,” while smiling. But I observed my boyfriend. No compulsion.
Next, Sabalenka travels to Cristina Bucsa, a surprise arrival from Spain.
In a 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 victory over Belgian 19th seed Elise Mertens, Bucsa, 28, defeated her for the first time in the fourth round of a major.
Top-10 seeds Emma Navarro and Jasmine Paolini saw their championship bids thwarted by two Czech ex-champions.
Azarenka fightback is held by Pegula to win.
In the third round of the US Open, American Jessica Pegula battled it out to defeat Canadian Victoria Azarenka to maintain her hopes of winning her first career Grand Slam on her home turf.
After winning the first set 6-1 7-5, 2024 finalist Pegula fought back bravely despite suffering from a leg injury.
Italian seventh seed Jasmine Paolini was outclassed by world number 60 Marketa Vondrousova while she lost to her 7-6 (7-4) 6-1 defeat.
Paolini lost to him last year in the French Open and Wimbledon finals, but this year he hasn’t advanced past the fourth round.
In the fourth round, Pegula will face either Australia’s No. 126 Priscilla Hon or her compatriot Ann Li after suffering a heartbreaking defeat by Aryna Sabalenka in the previous year’s New York final.
When asked how she had stabilized her second-set slide, the 31-year-old said, “I just tried to focus on going back to my strategy, things that went well in the first set.
I wanted to make the match physical because I thought I moved and scrambled really well.
Images courtesy of Getty
In the opening set, Azarenka committed four double faults and won only 36% of her first serves, the fourth seed had three aces and ten winners.
The 36-year-old, two-time Grand Slam champion broke serve before saving a break point to establish her lead in the second set, which made her appear older than she was.
However, mistakes made three consecutive breaks into both players’ games.
Before Pegula made two glaring forehand misses after double-faulting to give control back to Belarusian, Azarenka saved three break points before making the fourth.
One more pendulum struck in Pegula’s favor as she broke in the final game to claim a spot in the last 16.
She obviously increased her level in the second set, and I just assumed she would start serving really well, and she’s always a great returner, Pegula said of Azarenka.
Dates: August 24 through September 7 in Flushing Meadows, New York
Aryna Sabalenka, the defending champion, says Leylah Fernandez’s impressive tie-break record, which she beat against Canada, is down to “trust” in her game.
In Friday’s night session at Flushing Meadows, top seed Sabalenka defeated 2021 runner-up Fernandez 7-6 (7-2).
Sabalenka’s 18th consecutive winning tie-break, using the deciding first-to-seven method, claimed the second set.
The 27-year-old Belarusian is pursuing her goal of becoming the first woman to win consecutive New York titles since Serena Williams in 2014.
When I reach the tie-break, Sabalenka said, “I am aware that there are no doubts and I just need to go for my shots.”
I’m just being honest with myself about how important my game is. I feel pretty good about myself.
When the crowd on Louis Armstrong Stadium saw a wedding proposal on the big screen, Sabalenka’s focus did not wane.
It was a very sweet moment, but I made an effort to not start grinning because it was so adorable. The three-time major champion said, “I was just trying to keep focusing on my game.”
She remarked, “I don’t want this kind of proposal,” while smiling. But I observed my boyfriend. No compulsion.
Next, Sabalenka travels to Cristina Bucsa, a surprise arrival from Spain.
In a 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 victory over Belgian 19th seed Elise Mertens, Bucsa, 28, defeated her for the first time in the fourth round of a major.
Top-10 seeds Emma Navarro and Jasmine Paolini saw their championship bids thwarted by two Czech ex-champions.
Azarenka fightback is held by Pegula to win.
In the third round of the US Open, American Jessica Pegula battled it out to defeat Canadian Victoria Azarenka to maintain her hopes of winning her first career Grand Slam on her home turf.
After winning the first set 6-1 7-5, 2024 finalist Pegula fought back bravely despite suffering from a leg injury.
Italian seventh seed Jasmine Paolini was outclassed by world number 60 Marketa Vondrousova while she lost to her 7-6 (7-4) 6-1 defeat.
Paolini lost to him last year in the French Open and Wimbledon finals, but this year he hasn’t advanced past the fourth round.
In the fourth round, Pegula will face either Australia’s No. 126 Priscilla Hon or her compatriot Ann Li after suffering a heartbreaking defeat by Aryna Sabalenka in the previous year’s New York final.
When asked how she had stabilized her second-set slide, the 31-year-old said, “I just tried to focus on going back to my strategy, things that went well in the first set.
I wanted to make the match physical because I thought I moved and scrambled really well.
Images courtesy of Getty
In the opening set, Azarenka committed four double faults and won only 36% of her first serves, the fourth seed had three aces and ten winners.
The 36-year-old, two-time Grand Slam champion broke serve before saving a break point to establish her lead in the second set, which made her appear older than she was.
However, mistakes made three consecutive breaks into both players’ games.
Before Pegula made two glaring forehand misses after double-faulting to give control back to Belarusian, Azarenka saved three break points before making the fourth.
One more pendulum struck in Pegula’s favor as she broke in the final game to claim a spot in the last 16.
She obviously increased her level in the second set, and I just assumed she would start serving really well, and she’s always a great returner, Pegula said of Azarenka.
Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, has met with the families of his soldiers killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine, offering condolences for their “unforgiveable pain” and promising the bereaved “a beautiful life,” according to state media.
Kim hosted the families of the fallen soldiers, according to a report from the KCNA state news agency on Saturday, and expressed “grief at having failed to save the precious lives of those who gave their lives to defend the country’s honor.
Kim met with the families of fallen soldiers on this month’s second reported occasion. Seoul estimates about 600 soldiers killed and tens of thousands more wounded fighting for Russia, but Pyongyang has not confirmed this.
According to KCNA, Kim stated in his speech that “I had this meeting arranged as I wanted to meet and console the bereaved families of all the heroes and even slightly ease their sorrow and anguish.”
Kim also pledged to dedicate a monument to the late King’s son in Pyongyang, create a new street for bereaved families, and give the state its full support for the children of fallen soldiers.
The North Korean leader expressed sympathy for the children who lost their fathers in his “heart breaks and aches.”
He continued, “I, our state, and our army will assume full responsibility for them and train them like their fathers as steadfast and courageous fighters.”
Kim sent more than 10,000 soldiers to Russia in 2024, according to South Korean and Western intelligence agencies, primarily to the Kursk region, along with long-range rocket systems, missiles, and artillery from North Korea.
Images released by KCNA show an emotional Kim embracing a returned soldier who appeared to be overwhelmed and burying his face in the leader’s chest at a ceremony held last week with mourning family members and Ukrainian war veterans.
The leader was also seen paying his respects by lowering medals and flowers next to pictures of fallen soldiers.
Next week, Kim will represent the Japanese’s surrender at a military parade in Beijing along with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
On Saturday, August 30th, 2018, here is how things are going.
Fighting
Authorities raised the death toll from the attack from 25 to 24 after a massive Russian drone and missile attack in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Thursday.
Weapons
According to the Pentagon, the US Department of State has approved the potential sale of Ukraine’s Patriot air defense system support and related equipment for an estimated $ 179.1 million.
Peace talks
The US warned Moscow to take economic measures if the conflict continues, blaming the US for its continued use of deadly missile and drone strikes on Ukraine.
Yulia Svyrydenko, the prime minister of Ukraine, stated to the UNSC that “Russia continues to choose killing over ending the war” as a result of its continued attacks.
Moscow’s deputy UN ambassador, Dmitry Polyanskiy, stated that it was willing to hold a summit with Ukraine “provided there is thorough prior preparation for such a meeting and the substantive content of it, otherwise it would simply not have any meaning.”
In the event of a truce with Russia, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged allies to raise the issue of security guarantees for Ukraine to the level of leaders. In response, EU defense ministers have pledged to train Kyiv’s troops on Ukrainian soil.
The EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said that the EU’s top diplomats at the Copenhagen summit “strongly support” expanding the bloc’s military training program to include Ukraine.
President Zelenskyy added that US President Donald Trump should also be a part of the discussions and that he anticipated continuing discussions with European leaders next week regarding “NATO-like” commitments to protect Ukraine.
Invoking a 1994 agreement whereby Kyiv agreed to give up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for security guarantees that proved insufficient to deter Russia’s invasion, the Ukrainian leader added that he wanted the country’s allies to ratify any security guarantees through their parliaments.
By making Kyiv a “strategic provocateur” on Russia’s borders, according to Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, proposals for security guarantees for Ukraine would increase the likelihood of Moscow and the West engaging in conflict.
The best security guarantee for Ukraine, according to Estonia’s defense minister, would be NATO membership.
Ukrainians leave flowers and other items at the site of the Russian attack that hit a five-story residential building in Kyiv the day before, killing 25 people, including four children, and injuring 50 others [Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA]
Regional security
Following a meeting between Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron, Germany and France have discussed ways to work together more closely on security, including developing a missile early-warning system.
diplomacy and politics
Andriy Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian president’s cabinet, met with Steve Witkoff, the US special envoy, to discuss the need to pressure Moscow to achieve peace.
After criticizing President Trump’s envoy and Ukraine negotiator Steve Witkoff, US Vice President JD Vance criticized what he called “journalistic malpractice” by German-owned US news outlet Politico. According to Vance, “It’s a foreign influence operation that’s meant to harm the administration and one of our most powerful members.”
President Putin spoke with China’s top official Xinhua news agency in a written interview about “discriminatory” sanctions on global trade, which “hodily hinder the world’s socioeconomic development.” Putin will spend four days in China, which the Kremlin describes as “unprecedented,” from Sunday through Wednesday.
Following the discovery of aphasia, a brain condition that causes difficulty in understanding or producing speech, Bruce Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in 2023.
Emma has been by Bruce’s side throughout the entire journey(Image: ABC/YouTube)
Bruce Willis’ wife said she wishes she could “have a conversation” with the Hollywood legend.
Fighting back the tears, Emma Heming Willis made the heartbreaking revelation yesterday as she opened up about Bruce’s journey with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) with which he was diagnosed in 2023. It came following the discovery of aphasia – a brain disorder which leads to difficulty in understanding or producing speech in the previous year.
Over the years, doctors have identified important dementia symptoms that people should be wary of. Dr. Jim Jackson, a researcher and neuropsychologist at Vanderbilt Medical Center, described four subtle symptoms, stating that those with the condition may exhibit “socially inappropriate and even antisocial behaviors” and may exhibit “severe apathy or disinterest in things.”
He continued, “People may exhibit clear impairments in judgment and language-related issues, including diminished capacity to speak or comprehend.”
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Bruce Willis’ wife Emma makes heartbreaking admission about star after health diagnosis(Image: ABC/YouTube)
Bruce has aphasia-related speech difficulties, largely due to the aphasia, but memory difficulties can become more difficult as dementia progresses.
Emma said, “I’d ask how he’s doing, if he’s okay, he feels okay,” when addressing Diane Sawyer in an ABC special titled “Emma and Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey.” If there is anything we can do to better support him. That is something I would really like to know. if he fears. if he ever has concerns. I’d really like to talk to him informally.
Dementia is a collection of symptoms caused by different diseases, such as Alzheimer’s. In addition to Dr Jackson’s signs, common ones include having trouble focusing and finding it hard to carry out familiar daily tasks. The symptoms below are on the NHS website.
Emma, the kids, Demi, and their children visit the actor as much as they can(Image: Instagram/demimoore)
List of typical dementia symptoms
memory loss
having trouble focusing
finding it difficult to carry out well-known daily tasks, such as stumbling over the correct change when shopping.
struggling to follow a conversation or to use the appropriate phrase.
being uncertain about place and time
mood alters
The first signs of dementia are listed by Dr. Hilary.
Bruce, 70, retired from the acting industry after his aphasia diagnosis in 2022, ending a remarkable 42-year career. During this period, he won several awards, including a Golden Globe in 1987 for his role in comedy-drama series Moonlighting.
One of his last role was in the action film Detective Knight: Independence, released in 2023, to which Bruce was able to commit after receiving huge support in the acting industry. While he has stepped away from work, Bruce’s personal circumstances have changed as he and Emma are also living separately.
