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In a performance devoid of any positive energy, Pegula struggled to cope with the Czech's huge serves, including 11 aces, and hit just four winners in a match lasting little more than an hour.

Now it’s just a matter of seeing how many aces he can hit.

Maybe Posey can persuade Blake Snell, who can opt out of his contract, to stay in San Francisco and give the Giants two aces atop their rotation.

But it said "as great an achievement" as consecutives aces are, "there are too many variables" for it to calculate the odds.

But Draper withstood the early barrage, settled in with three aces in his next service game and soon began to take control.