WTA: Top 5 upsets of the year 2013

NEW YORK, NY – AUGUST 27: Samantha Stosur of Australia returns a shot to Victoria Duval of United States of America during her shocking upset defeat

2)Victoria Duval ousts Samantha Stosur in Round One at the US Open

Australia’s Samantha Stosur is probably one of the few players in the Women’s circuit who can match Serena Williams’ power-packed, aggressive brand of tennis, the same opponent whom she beat to claim the US Open title in 2011. This is, perhaps, what makes Stosur’s loss in the same event in the first round to 296^th ranked Victoria Duval, all the more shocking.

After losing the first set 5-7, Duval came back fiercely to delight her home crowd, winning the second set 6-4. The latter squandered away three match points in the deciding set, after finally breaking through the shackles and setting up a crosscourt winner to wrap up the set. Duval not only won her first ever Grand Slam match, but also won the hearts of all the Americans present in the packed Louis Armstrong stadium at the Flushing Meadows.