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After knocking off eighth seeded Frenchman
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the Canadian giant killer returns to the
Arthur Ashe Stadium court chasing a place in the fourth round.
Shapovalov's hit list includes back-to-back wins over U.S. Open
champions Rafa Nadal and Juan Martin De Potro at the recent
Rogers Cup in Montreal, and the Canadian will now try to add the
42nd ranked Edmund to his list of scalps.
Another of the tennis young guns in Croatia's Borna Coric, who
took down fourth seed Alexander Zverev in the second round,
finds 28th seeded South African Kevin Anderson standing between
him and a fourth round berth.
Against some criticism, Maria Sharapova will be back on Arthur
Ashe for the third straight match where she will face American
wild card Sofia Kenin.
Playing her first grand slam since returning from a 15-month
doping ban, Sharapova has enjoyed wild fan support every time
she steps on to the court but not everyone is happy to see the
five-time winner back in action.
Fifth seed Caroline Wozniacki ripped U.S. Open organizers for
putting her on an outside court while Sharapova soaked up the
applause on Arthur Ashe.
"When you look at center court, and I understand completely the
business side of things, but someone who comes back from a drugs
sentence, performance-enhancing drugs, and then all of a
sudden gets to play every single match on center court, I think
that's a questionable thing to do," said Wozniacki. "It doesn't
set a good example."
There will be no complaints from the home crowd about seeing
ninth seed Venus Williams or 10th seed John Isner on the Arthur
Ashe stage.
Williams, a twice U.S. Open champion, takes on Greece's Maria
Sakkari before turning over the spotlight to the big-hitting
Isner, who goes up against Germany's 23rd seed Mischa Zverev.
(Reporting by Steve Keating in New York. Editing by Ian Ransom)
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