NEW YORK (AP) - The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local):
2:22 a.m.
Marin Cilic, the 2014 U.S. Open champion, needed eight match points to recover from a two-set deficit and eventually edge 19-year-old Alex de Minaur 4-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 at 2:22 a.m., four minutes shy of the latest finish in the tournament’s history.
The No. 7 seed Cilic and 45th-ranked de Minaur didn’t even start their third-round match at Louis Armstrong Stadium until after 10 p.m., because of day-session matches that ran long Saturday.
Cilic quickly dropped the first two sets before turning things around for his sixth career comeback after trailing by two sets to none.
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1:25 a.m.
No. 7 seed Marin Cilic, the 2014 U.S. Open champion, and 19-year-old Alex de Minaur are heading to a fifth set in their third-round match.
Cilic dropped the opening two sets 6-4, 6-3, before tying the match by taking the next two 6-3, 6-4.
They have been playing for a little more than 3 hours in Louis Armstrong Stadium.
Because of lengthy matches during the day session, they didn’t start playing until about 10:20 p.m.
Now they could approach - or surpass - the record for latest finish in a U.S. Open match: 2:26 a.m.
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11:20 p.m.
Novak Djokovic moved closer to a possible U.S. Open quarterfinal against Roger Federer with an efficient 6-2, 6-3, 6-3 victory over No. 26 Richard Gasquet in the third round.
Djokovic saved all five break points he faced.
He is now 13-1 for his career against Gasquet, including 11 wins in a row.
Djokovic has won two of his 13 Grand Slam titles at Flushing Meadows. He’ll face Joao Sousa of Portugal in the fourth round Monday. Win that, and a meeting with 20-time major champion Roger Federer could be next.
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10 p.m.
Add two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova to the growing list of highly seeded women who keep losing U.S. Open matches at new Louis Armstrong Stadium.
The No. 5-seeded Kvitova is a big hitter, but she was overpowered by 26th-seeded Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus 7-5, 6-1 in the third round.
Sabalenka made only 15 errors, 20 fewer than Kvitova, and won 12 of 13 points she served in the second set.
The 20-year-old Sabalenka never had been past the second round of a Grand Slam tournament. But now she’s in the fourth at Flushing Meadows.
Kvitova’s exit means that 10 of the top 13 seeds are out of the women’s draw. And a bunch of them, including No. 1 Simona Halep, No. 2 Caroline Wozniacki and No. 4 Angelique Kerber, all were eliminated at Armstrong, which is making its debut this year.
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8:50 p.m.
Five-time major champion Maria Sharapova returned to the U.S. Open’s fourth round by beating No. 10 seed Jelena Ostapenko 6-3, 6-2.
The 22nd-seeded Sharapova got plenty of help: 2017 French Open champion Ostapenko hit 41 unforced errors and only 10 winners.
Sharapova won the 2006 title at Flushing Meadows, but she’s only been past the fourth round once since then.
Ostapenko’s exit left only four of the top 13 women’s seeds in the draw.
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7:45 p.m.
No. 4 seed Alexander Zverev has made another Week 1 exit at the U.S. Open, losing this time to 34th-ranked Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-7 (1), 6-4, 6-1, 6-3 in an all-German matchup in the third round.
The 21-year-old Zverev is considered a rising star of men’s tennis. He already has won three Masters titles in his career and leads the tour with 45 wins this season.
But he has only one Grand Slam quarterfinal appearance so far, at this year’s French Open, and he’s now 4-4 at the U.S. Open. In four appearances at Flushing Meadows, he has one loss in the first round, two in the second, and one in the third.
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6:30 p.m.
Althea Gibson will be permanently honored with a monument on the grounds of the National Tennis Center next year.
U.S. Tennis Association President Katrina Adams announced the monument Saturday with Eric Goulder, who will build the sculpture.
Adams says Gibson is an icon in the sport, someone who “was truly diverse in her own thinking and her abilities.”
USTA spokesman Chris Widmaier says the location for the statue has not been finalized and artist renderings are unavailable because Goulder “is still in the creative process.”
Adams says her team will survey the grounds to put it somewhere visible.
Gibson was the first African-American woman to win the French Open (1956), the U.S. Open (1957 and 1958), and Wimbledon (1957 and 1958).
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5:40 p.m.
Naomi Osaka swept her way into the fourth round of the U.S. Open for the first time, beating Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-0, 6-0.
The No. 20 seed from Japan needed just 50 minutes, 25 per set, to eliminate the 33rd-ranked player from Belarus.
Osaka has reached at least the third round in six straight Grand Slam tournaments, the longest current streak on tour. She lost in that round in Flushing Meadows the last two years.
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4:30 p.m.
Roger Federer’s 51 winners included one jaw-dropping flick around the net post and he got through a tough early spot to get past Nick Kyrgios 6-4, 6-1, 7-5 and reach the fourth round in a 17th consecutive U.S. Open appearance.
The outcome might very well have been decided with Federer serving at 3-all, love-40, less than 20 minutes in. He saved four break points in that game - and then never faced another.
In the 30th-seeded Kyrgios’ previous match, the chair umpire climbed down from his seat to have a chat with the Australian’s seeming lack of effort. There was no such visit during this match.
The No. 2-seeded Federer has won five of his record 20 Grand Slam titles at Flushing Meadows, but his most recent U.S. Open trophy arrived a decade ago.
He’ll face 55th-ranked John Millman of Australia next. It’s the first time Millman has reached the fourth round at any major tournament.
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4:10 p.m.
Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber has been eliminated, leaving none of this year’s Grand Slam winners left in the U.S. Open.
No. 29 seed Dominika Cibulkova rallied Saturday to beat the fourth-seeded Kerber 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, leaving only one of the top-four seeds on the women’s side in the tournament after three rounds.
Top-ranked Simona Halep, the French Open champion, was eliminated in the first round. Australian Open champion Caroline Wozniacki, the No. 2 seed, fell in the second.
Only No. 3 seed and defending champion Sloane Stephens remains among the top-four seeds.
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2:15 p.m.
Madison Keys rallied after dropping the first set and the U.S. Open finalist from a year ago beat Aleksandra Krunic 4-6, 6-1, 6-2.
Keys lost to Sloane Stephens in the final last year and lost to her again this year in the French Open semis. But Keys has been plagued with injuries for most of the season and slipped out of the top 10 in the rankings.
The 14th-seeded Keys looked out of sorts in the first set but she was resilient the rest of the way and won 12 of the last 15 games. She said she was nervous - she even whiffed on an overhead - but thanked the crowd for pulling her through into the round of 16.
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1:50 p.m.
The youngest player left in the women’s field is through to the fourth round.
Marketa Vondrousova upset No. 13 seed Kiki Bertens 7-6 (4), 2-6, 7-6 (1) in the first match completed Saturday at Louis Armstrong Stadium.
The 19-year-old Vondrousova was one of two teenagers to reach the third round, along with American Sofia Kenin. Kenin was knocked out Friday by No. 8 seed Karolina Pliskova.
Vondrousova was one of six Czechs, including Pliskova, to reach the third round. She could meet another, Katerina Siniakova, in the round of 16. Siniakova played Lesia Tsurenko later Saturday.
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11:50 a.m.
Roger Federer’s matches against Nick Kyrgios have been as close as can be.
So the five-time U.S. Open champion could be tested in trying to reach the fourth round when he meets Kyrgios for the first time in a Grand Slam tournament.
The No. 2 seed has played the No. 30 seed three times on tour, all decided by a third-set tiebreaker. Federer won twice, including a victory this year in a Wimbledon tuneup.
Kyrgios’ second-round win at the Open caused a stir. The chair umpire left his seat to talk with the Australian, who was putting forth little effort while dropping the first set and falling behind 3-0 in the second. Federer was among those critical of the umpire’s conduct.
Federer is one of five seeded men in the top 10 playing Saturday. The others are No. 4 Alexander Zverev, No. 6 Novak Djokovic, No. 7 Marin Cilic and No. 10 David Goffin.
Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber and 2018 runner-up Madison Keys are on the women’s schedule, along with 2006 U.S. Open titlist Maria Sharapova facing 10th-seeded Jelena Ostapenko.
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