ALISON RISKE WIN IN 3 ROUND OF US OPEN 2013. KVITOVA OUT

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American Alison Riske lost a tough three-set match to No. 7 seed Petra Kvitova last week at the Emirates Airline US Open Series event in New Haven, but it seems that she learned from that experience. Playing the best match of her career today in their third round women's singles match, the wild-card ranked No. 81 landed 70 percent of her first serves and nailed 12 winners while only hitting seven errors, breaking serve five times and winning the final eight games in shocking Kvitova, 6-3, 6-0. 
After going winless in her last four visits to the US Open, Riske is now into the fourth round. "It was really emotional for me," said Riske. "It's cool because I feel like I'm playing within myself and not doing anything too crazy. It's just really comfortable for me out there." Both women started out strongly in the first set, stepping into the court and hitting numerous winners. But when Kvitova dropped her guard slightly by hitting a double fault to give Riske a 3-2 lead, the American took full advantage. Hitting her returns mere inches from the baseline, she pinned the powerful Czech back and didn't allow her to dictate the rallies. Becoming frustrated, Kvitova began to spray her ground strokes, hiring two straight forehand errors at 3-5 to give Riske the opening set.
 The 2011 Wimbledon champion continued to fight, but Riske was in full flight. She won a titanic game in the second game of the second set to go up an early break and continued to run with the momentum. Kvitova dumped a routine forehand volley into the net on game point serving at 0-3 and appeared dejected afterwards, hitting another double fault to give Riske a 4-0 lead. The Czech player struggled with her serve throughout, hitting seven double faults on the day. Riske closed out the match at 5-0 with a backhand winner, raising her arms in delight.