NEW YORK – Maria Sharapova knows a story all as great well: An different American child shows up during a U.S. Open, upsets a seeded player, gains a small hum as great as belief, afterwards gets a shot during Sharapova in a third round.

In 2009, which child was Melanie Oudin, who kick Sharapova en track to a quarterfinals.

In 2010, which child was Beatrice Capra and, well, let’s usually contend which Sharapova fared a small improved this time around.

Overwhelmed by a stage, a circumstances, a twenty-five mph breeze which knocked a neon orange visor off her conduct during a point, as great as — many of all — a plain Sharapova, a 18-year-old Capra didn’t win a game, let alone a match. Instead, 2006 U.S. Open hold up Sharapova set up a fourth-round showdown with No. 1-seeded Caroline Wozniacki by blanking a 371st-ranked Capra 6-0, 6-0 upon Saturday in Arthur Ashe Stadium.

“This was a brand new day,” pronounced Sharapova, a initial lady to win love-and-love during a U.S. Open in a third turn or after given Martina Navratilova did it in a 1989 quarterfinals. “And what happened final year — we didn’t unequivocally wish to go in to a compare meditative about it.”

On her unequivocally initial offer of a afternoon, Capra scarcely sailed a turn all a approach to a conflicting baseline. That competence have been a outcome of nerves as great as a ever-swirling wind, which finished a U.S. dwindle upon tip of a track strap loudly as great as caused 4 median stoppages in fool around when waste rolled onto a court. Plenty of brown, concession-stand napkins as great as a single cosmetic sandwich bag floated out of a stands; even dual white towels finished similar to tumbleweed.

“This is substantially a toughest conditions we’re starting to get,” Sharapova said.

Actually, alternative than whiffing upon a single offer return, Sharapova rubbed a conditions rsther than well; others did not. Fourth-seeded Jelena Jankovic, a 2008 runner-up during Flushing Meadows, shanked a single offer true up in a air off a tip of her pole support as great as accomplished with 41 spontaneous errors in a 6-2, 7-6 (1) detriment to No. 31 Kaia Kanepi of Estonia.

“You get undone with a wind,” Jankovic said, “because we wish to strike balls in (a) sure direction, as great as they go everywhere solely where we wish them to go.”

There were no such surprises in men’s action. Five-time U.S. Open hold up Roger Federer reached a fourth turn by violence Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-4, 6-3, 6-3; No. 3-seeded Novak Djokovic had no difficulty removing past American furious label James Blake 6-1, 7-6 (4), 6-3 during night; No. 5 Robin Soderling, twice a French Open finalist, degraded Thiemo de Bakker 6-2, 6-3, 6-3; No. nineteen Mardy Fish outlasted 32-year-old Arnaud Clement, a oldest male left, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 6-3. Fish right away takes upon Djokovic for a berth in a quarterfinals.

Also, No. thirteen Jurgen Melzer kick 2003 French Open hold up Juan Carlos Ferrero 7-5, 6-3, 6-1; No. twenty-one Albert Montanes modernized when qualifier Ken Nishikori give up in a second set with a groin injury, dual days after winning a exhausting five-setter; as great as No. seventeen Gael Monfils picked up a 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4), 6-2, 6-4 win over Janko Tipsarevic, who knocked off 2003 U.S. Open hold up Andy Roddick in a second round.

Asked to report a weather, Monfils said: “Awful. we mean, for me: awful.”

Capra, who’s from Ellicott City, Md., as great as trains during a Evert Academy in Florida, concurred struggling with a wind. She additionally concurred feeling jitters, as great as who could censure her, really? She won a U.S. Tennis Association playoff in Aug to consequence a U.S. Open furious card; not usually was this her initial Grand Slam contest — it was her initial tour-level, main-draw event, period.

She became a lowest-ranked lady given 2002 to strech a U.S. Open’s third turn by violence 95th-ranked Karolina Sprem in a initial round, afterwards 18th-seeded Aravane Rezai in a second.

And right away she found herself starting up opposite a 23-year-old Sharapova, someone Capra pronounced she looked up to “when we was younger.” They never had met until Saturday.

So what was which like?

“Before a match, she would usually travel past me as great as kind of, like, give me a glare, which is kind of intimidating,” Capra said. “After a match, when we shook hands, she was unequivocally nice.”

Oudin, who knows Capra from her youth days, sent a content summary after a feat over Rezai, charity advice.

“I should have talked to Melanie prior to a match, given we was wondering — we was like, ‘Was Melanie this shaken prior to she played?’” Capra said. “I didn’t get a possibility to, yet we substantially should have.”

Then again, a Capra of 2010 is not usually a Oudin of 2009, a player who already had risen to 70th in a rankings prior to a U.S. Open, interjection to a run to a fourth turn during Wimbledon which summer.

And, to be fair, a Sharapova of 2010 is not usually a Sharapova of 2009, either.

“She doesn’t give we anything,” remarkable Capra, whose exit leaves Venus Williams as a usually U.S. lady in a field. “Even yet she’s violence me which badly, she’s still so focused.”

A year ago, Sharapova was still reckoning things out after carrying right shoulder operation in Oct 2008, still operative her approach behind in to compare figure after blank a begin of a season.

Against Oudin, Sharapova double-faulted twenty-one times, some-more than any lady had in any debate compare all year.

Against Capra, Sharapova double-faulted 5 times, yet differently was in clever form.

“I mean, we could have finished better, and, we know, it was tighten in a small of a games,” pronounced Capra, whose parents, sister, grandparents, aunt as great as dual friends were in a stands. “Plus, when you’re, like, losing which bad, it’s usually in your head, like, ‘Just greatfully let me win a single game.’”

That’s what 2009 U.S. Open runner-up Wozniacki’s opponents competence have been thinking: She has won 36 of 39 games so far, together with Saturday’s 6-1, 6-0 feat over Chan Yung-jan of Taiwan. That followed a 6-0, 6-0 shutout — well known in tennis as a “double bagel” — in a second round.

Other women more advanced Saturday enclosed No. 7 Vera Zvonareva, a runner-up during Wimbledon in July; No. eleven Svetlana Kuznetsova, a 2004 U.S. Open champion, who kick No. twenty-three Maria Kirilenko 6-3, 6-4 during night; as great as No. fifteen Yanina Wickmayer, who mislaid to Wozniacki in a 2009 semifinals in New York.

The 3 games Wozniacki has mislaid so distant this year have been a fewest by 3 finished matches during any Grand Slam contest given Mary Pierce forsaken usually dual during a 1994 French Open.

“I have been feeling great out there,” Wozniacki said, a understatement of a week. “It usually says something about how I’ve been playing, as great as a turn I’ve been personification on.”