World No. 1 Karolina Pliskova feels the heat after surviving scare

World No. 1 Karolina Pliskova admitted she is struggling to cope with the pressure after surviving a major scare in the second round of the US Open

Czech's Karolina Pliskova

World No. 1 Karolina Pliskova admitted she is struggling to cope with the pressure after surviving a major scare in the second round of the US Open.

Stellar year for Karolina
The Czech top seed lost the first set to American Nicole Gibbs but recovered to win 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. Pliskova has had a stellar 12 months, which began when she reached the final here, and she climbed to the top of the rankings after Wimbledon. "I think you cannot see how I’m feeling inside. Even when I was playing some matches last year, two years before, I still have some nerves in myself. But I think now it’s even more. Every match, I have to win. There is enough pressure on me."

New US Open record
American Shelby Rogers and Australian Daria Gavrilova set a record of 3hr 33min for the longest women’s singles match played at the US Open on Thursday. Rogers won 7-6 (8/6), 4-6, 7-6 (7/5) on a fifth match point in a final set that lasted 90 minutes.
Their second-round tie on Court 10 went past the previous longest of the 3 hours and 23 minutes it took Johanna Konta to defeat Garbine Muguruza 7-6 (7/4), 6-7 (4/7), 6-2 in the second round of the 2015 US Open.

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