Wimbledon champion Kerber out of US Open
Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber was knocked out of the US Open on Saturday, losing 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 to Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia.
Fourth seeded Kerber, the 2016 champion in New York, had been bidding to become just the third woman in the last 20 years to win Wimbledon and the US Open in the same year.
Cibulkova, the 29th seed who made the quarter-finals in 2010, will face 2017 US Open runner-up Madison Keys for a place in the last-eight.