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The top half of the women’s draw plays its Sweet 16 matches Saturday, with the most intriguing one perhaps being the battle between 2016 champion Angelique Kerber and rising American Jennifer Brady.
As she does, Kerber has a way of sneaking through the first few rounds while the attention is elsewhere. And she hasn’t dropped a set.
And yet, Brady is the odds favorite.

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