Giant killers meet their end

through it means three qualifiers have made the third round in the bottom half of the wide open women’s draw.

Timea Babos, who put paid to the hopes of a third American seed, CoCo Vandeweghe, in the first round was in action later yesterday.

For former world number seven Belinda, now down at 78 after battling back from wrist surgery, it was a sudden comedown after the highs of Monday when she outplayed seven-times grand slam champion Williams.

Luksika, ranked 124th in the world, produced a masterful display to reach the third round of a major for the first time having twice reached the second round of the Australian Open.

Luksika will face Croatian Petra Martic next while Denisa is up against Magda Linette of Poland.

French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko was pushed all the way by China's Duan Yingying before grinding out a 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 win in the second round.

She next faces Estonia's Anett Kontaveit for a place in the last 16 of the year's first Grand Slam.

A relieved Caroline Wozniacki hailed her greatest comeback af ter saving two match points at 1-5 in the final set to keep her Grand Slam dream alive against littleknown Jana Fett.

The number two seed finally prevailed 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 in the second round after an epic two hour and 31 minutes battle against the Croat ranked 119th.

Caroline will continue her quest for a maiden Grand Slam title in the third round tomorrow against Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands who beat American Nicole Gibbs 6-7 (7/3), 6-0. Agencies