US Open: Serena Williams becomes greatest major match winner; Stan Wawrinka, Simona Halep win through

Serena Williams stands alone as the greatest major match winner in the Open era after beating Yaroslava Shvedova to reach the US Open qua...

Serena Williams stands alone as the greatest major match winner in the Open era after beating Yaroslava Shvedova to reach the US Open quarter-finals.

Williams' 6-2, 6-3 win was the 308th victory at grand slams, taking her past Roger Federer's 307 wins.

"It's really exciting. This is where it all started so it's always magical out here, but 308 sounds pretty good," she said in her court-side interview with ESPN.

The world number one will face fifth seed Simona Halep, who beat Spanish rival Carla Suarez Navarro 6-2, 7-5.

The 24-year-old Romanian was broken serving for the match at 5-4 but she broke right back, and after falling behind 0-30 in the 11th game swept the last four points in a row to end it.

Halep, who reached the semi-finals at Flushing Meadows last year, edged ahead in her rivalry with Suarez Navarro, now leading their head-to-head series 6-5.

Meanwhile, hard-hitting Czech Karolina Pliskova toppled two-time champion Venus Williams 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/3) to reach her first major quarter-final.

Pliskova, who had never before made it past the third round of a major, derailed seven-time grand slam champion Williams's bid to reach the last eight for the second straight year and scuppered a possible semi-final clash between Venus and Serena.

Pliskova will meet Ana Konjuh in the quarters after the unseeded Croat upset fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska 6-4, 6-4.

Murray blasted Dimitrov off the court, winning 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 in two hours as he slapped nine aces and 28 winners past his 22nd-seeded opponent, who shanked 43 unforced errors.

Murray will face Kei Nishikori in the last eight after he advanced with a 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (7/4) win over 21st seed Ivo Karlovic.

Swiss Stan Wawrinka reached the quarters for a fourth successive year with a 6-4, 6-1, 6-7 (5/7), 6-3 win over Ukraine's Illya Marchenko.

Third seed Wawrinka, a semi-finalist in 2013 and 2015, will take on 2009 champion Juan Martin del Potro for a place in the last four.

Del Potro, at 142 in the world, is the lowest-ranked man in 25 years to reach the last eight.

The Argentine progressed when Austrian eighth seed Dominic Thiem retired from their last-16 tie with a knee injury. Del Potro was leading 6-3, 3-2 when Thiem quit.

Wawrinka had to save a match point in his epic third-round win over Dan Evans and has yet to face an opponent ranked inside the top 45. ABC with wires

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