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US Open Tennis 2016 Schedule: Women’s, Men’s Finals TV, Live-Stream Coverage
- Updated: September 10, 2016
The hard work has been completed in the U.S. Open, and now it’s left to the final four players remaining in the New York tournament to fight for the national championship.
Second-seeded Angelique Kerber and 10th-seeded Karolina Pliskova will compete for the women’s title Saturday at approximately 3 p.m. ET.
Top-seeded Novak Djokovic will try to defend the title he won last year when he meets Stan Wawrinka in the men’s final Sunday afternoon.
Kerber is the favorite to win the women’s title after earning the No. 1 ranking when Serena Williams lost to Pliskova in the semifinals Thursday night.
Kerber is minus-166 (bet $166 to win $100) to win her second Grand Slam title of the year, according to Odds Shark, while Pliskova is plus-146 to earn her first U.S. Open championship.
In her straight-set semifinal victory over Caroline Wozniacki, Kerber used a strategic approach to win the match. Instead of trying to hit winners on every shot, she was content to keep the ball in play and let Wozniacki make mistakes.
Kerber explained to Peter Bodo of ESPNW she had often been done in by her own poor shots in the past, and that was a key to her strategy changes:
I lost a lot of matches with this [negativity] stuff, because I was …
