Halep and Sharapova,

Halep and Sharapova, the third round of the EE. UU.

Venus Williams beat for the first time in four years the second round of this competition.

Romanian Simona Halep, Maria Sharapova and world exnúmero each Wednesday Venus Williams advanced to the third round of the United States on a day that the Polish Agnieszka was eliminated. 

Defeated Halep 6-2, 6-1 to Slovakia's Jana Cepelova, while Sharapova had to work hard to eliminate the Romanian Alexandra Dulgheru, number 95 in the world rankings, with partial 4-6, 6-3, 6-two. 

The Romanian Halep, reaching the second time in five starts the third round, will face the winner of the battle between the Croatian Mirjana Lucic-Baroni and Israeli Shahar Peer. Sharapova, who contests the tenth United States Open, which he won in 2006, will have its next litmus test against German Sabine Lisicki, who on Wednesday won 6-4, 6-1 to local Madison Brengle. 

They also answered Wednesday favoritism other seeded as German Angelique Kerber (6), the Serbian Jelena Jankovic (9), Caroline Wozniacki (10), the Italian Sara Errani (13), Czech Lucie Safarova (14 ) and Germany's Andrea Petkovic (18), although he had to overcome the tough game that raised the young Puerto Rican Monica Puig promise. 

Venus Williams, who won the Open in 2000 and 2001, surpassed for the first time in four years the second round. Most of the Williams sisters won 6-1, 6-4 to Swiss Timea Bacsinszky and third-round clash with Italian Errani, which has won three fighting over professionals, the last in the round end of the 1000 Cincinnati Masters 2012. 

Another surprise in the day the Chinese Shuai Peng struck, 28, 40th in the world, 6-3, 6-4 to Agnieszka Radwanska, ranked fifth in the WTA. The fourth seed to win the tournament comes to Montreal but the spell remains in tow United States Open, where in nine appearances never have happened in the knockout stages. 

Johana also surprised the Swedish Larsson, 26, number 96 world. Appearing in the fifth US Open double rolled 6-0 to France's Virginie Razzano in the second round and beat 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 win over American Sloane Stephens The last Grand Slam tournament is disputed on hard court and distributed prizes worth $ 18.1 million.