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 Top seed Williams, seeking to become the first woman since Steffi
Graf in 1988 to complete a rare calendar Grand Slam, will face the
tall, big-hitting Bertens in the third match of the day at Arthur
Ashe Stadium.
A well-rested Williams, who needed only 30 minutes to win her
first-round match when her opponent retired with a knee injury, will
start a prohibitive favorite against her 110th-ranked opponent from
the Netherlands.
It will be the first career match-up between Williams and Bertens.
Defending men's champion Marin Cilic, the ninth seed, will also be
in action as he faces Russian Evgeny Donskoy.
In other men's action, top seed Novak Djokovic will cap the night
session when he battles unseeded Austrian Andreas Haider-Maurer
under the lights.
Serbian Djokovic dropped only three games in a first-round canter,
but might get a tougher contest from world number 52 Haider-Maurer,
who downed Canadian Vasek Pospisil in five sets on Monday.
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Eighth seed Rafa Nadal, who survived a dangerous first-round
opponent in Croatian Borna Coric, will be up against unseeded
Argentine Diego Schwartzman in a daytime match in the Louis
Armstrong Stadium.
(Reporting by Andrew Both in Cary, North Carolina; Editing by Frank
Pingue)
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