Venus in last 16
Two-time champion Venus Williams defeated highly-rated Swiss teenager Belinda Bencic for the fourth time on Friday to reach the US Open last 16.
Williams, 35, hit 31 winners in a 6-3, 6-4 win over the 18-year-old 12th seed and goes on to face either compatriot Madison Brengle or Anett Kontaveit of Estonia.
Dominant Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is yet to drop a set at the US Open as he executed a 6-3 7-5 6-2 victory Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine to reach the fourth round at Flushing Meadows today.
The second set was tighter as neither could take advantage until Tsonga converted on his third break point in the 11th game, which was all that was needed for him to take a two-set advantage.
Tsonga began dominating the court as he broke serve immediately in the third set and eased to a 3-1 lead before eventually cruising to victory.
Five-time champion Roger Federer strolled into the US Open third round on Thursday as fellow old-timer Lleyton Hewitt bid farewell in trademark fighting style.
On a dramatic day which saw a record created for the longest women's match, and a new Grand Slam high for retirements from the men's tournament, Andy Murray escaped his earliest exit in 10 years when he came back from two sets down to make the last 32.
After midnight, 2009 and 2014 runner-up Caroline Wozniacki, the fourth seed, was knocked out by Czech world number 149 Petra Cetkovska who saved four match points to win 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (7/1).
Cetkovska, who recently missed seven months of action with a hip injury, committed 60 unforced errors but unleashed 60 winners.
World number two Federer, the 17-time Grand Slam champion, needed just 80 minutes to rout Belgium's Steve Darcis 6-1, 6-2, 6-1.
The 34-year-old Swiss star, who was champion from 2004-2008 and runner-up in 2009, goes on to face German 29th seed Philipp Kohlschreiber.
Federer has lost just nine games in the first two rounds, his fewest in 16 appearances.
Darcis later tweeted that playing Federer was like facing "a Martian."
Third seed and 2012 champion Murray came back from two sets down to defeat tiring Frenchman Adrian Mannarino 5-7, 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-1 on Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Murray goes on to face Brazilian 30th seed Thomaz Bellucci for a place in the last 16.
Murray, 28, who had needed four sets to beat Nick Kyrgios in the opening round, fired 21 aces while Mannarino was undone by 61 unforced errors.
Former world number one Hewitt, the champion in 2001, made a dramatic farewell battling from two sets down and having two match points before losing to fellow Australian Bernard Tomic on a rocking Grandstand court.
In his final match in New York, the 34-year-old fell 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 5-7, 7-5 after three hours and 27 minutes after his 57th career five-set match.
America's Jack Sock and Denis Istomin retired from their matches as they wilted in the 33-degree Celsius (91.4 F) heat.
Sock, the 28th seed, collapsed on the court, where he was treated with ice packs by US Open medical staff before being helped off to the shade of the Grandstand.
Bemelmans next plays fifth-seeded French Open champion Stan Wawrinka who beat South Korean teenager Chung Hyeon 7-6 (7/2), 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (8/6).
Istomin called it quits on Court Seven against Austrian 20th seed Dominic Thiem, who was 6-4, 6-4, 1-0 up at the time, with his win coming on his 22nd birthday.
Britain's world number 97 Johanna Konta made history when she defeated Wimbledon runner-up Garbine Muguruza in the longest women's match in US Open history.
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