• US Open, Day Six

Wozniacki crushes King to reach fourth round

Excellent movement once again underpinned an impressive display from Caroline Wozniacki © PA Photos

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Caroline Wozniacki progressed to the second week of the US Open with the minimum of fuss, as she breezed to a 6-2 6-4 win over Vania King in the third round.

The Dane is letting her tennis do the talking, after spending plenty of time fielding questions about her relationship with Rory McIlroy and failures at the grand slams. She has made steady progress in the first week and produced a polished display against an admittedly limited King.

King, ranked 103 in the world, made a positive start as she broke Wozniacki in the first game by stepping in and attacking on both wings. It took Wozniacki a little time to adjust, but she went on the attack - forcing King to retreat behind the baseline and she reeled off five games on the spin to take the opening set.

Wozniacki's movement was good, but the impressive thing was the sight of her taking on the ball off the King serve. King's serve is admittedly not the strongest on tour, but the world No. 1 was happy to attack rather than place the ball back into court.

King snapped a run of eight games without reply by holding and then found some form on her return of serve and earned a break when Wozniacki threw a backhand volley wide.

Wozniacki steeled herself and produced a glorious backhand lob as she broke back. With the contest seemingly slipping away, King changed things up and a brilliant drop shot earned a break point which she converted with a drilled backhand down the line.

But as on the previous occasion when she was broken, Wozniacki hit back immediately to close out victory.

Wozniacki will face Svetlana Kuznetsova in the last 16 after she crushed Akgul Amanmuradova 6-4 6-2 on Louis Armstrong Stadium.

Francesca Schiavone put her supporters through agonies once again before claiming a 5-7 7-6(5) 6-3 win over Chanelle Scheepers. It was another mixed display from the Italian No. 7 seed, who made a mammoth 49 unforced errors. All those errors handed Scheepers a massive chance and she squandered a match point on her own serve in the second set, allowing Schiavone to claw her way back into the game before she raced away in the final set.

Up next for Schiavone is a fourth-round clash with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova after the Russian claimed a 6-4 6-4 win over an out of sorts Jelena Jankovic.

Andrea Petkovic has made quiet progress and the German No. 10 seed proved much too good for Roberta Vinci, winning 6-4 6-0.

Carla Suarez Navarro has looked extremely comfortable on the slowish courts at Flushing Meadows and proved much too good for fellow Spaniard Silvia Soler-Espinosa - winning 6-0 6-4

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