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Rio Haryanto has revealed he was seven million Euros short of the money he needed to complete the 2016 season with Manor.Haryanto was dropped from a race seat this week after failing to come up with the remaining funding required to stay at the team. His initial contract with Manor covered the first 11 races, before the team allowed him to race at the German Grand Prix ahead of the summer break.Haryanto, who became Indonesias first F1 driver this year, has revealed just how much money he needed to stay on the grid.?Speaking to Indonesian publication Tempo, Haryanto explained: [Manor] had helped me by allowing me to race in German Grand Prix. With the available funding, I should have only raced up to the Hungarian Grand Prix.The contract says it was 15 million euros in total. We only managed to garner eight million euros. We were seven million euros short.Haryanto has been replaced by Esteban Ocon, who will drive alongside Pascal Wehrlein for the rest of the season. 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In practice, none of them were going in, so I was definitely excited about that.Since equaling Steffi Grafs mark for most Grand Slam singles trophies in the Open era, which dates to 1968, by earning No. 22 at Wimbledon in July, the No. 1-ranked Williams had only entered one event -- the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, where she was upset in the third round. She cited a sore shoulder in withdrawing from a hard-court tournament a week later.Looked perfectly fine against Makarova, a two-time Grand Slam semifinalist who is ranked 29th and beat Williams in straight sets at the 2012 Australian Open.I knew today I needed to be focused because Ive played her. Shes gotten to the semifinals. She goes deep in majors. She knows how to play big matches on big courts. Shes not intimidated, Williams said. I knew I had to really come out today. It was my only option, really.Well, consider that done.Wearing black sleeves on each arm -- she called the accessoories definitely functional because they keep my muscles warm -- Williams averaged 108 mph on first serves and won 17 of the first 20 points she served, 36 of 46 overall, never appearing to be the least bit bothered by anything.ddddddddddddAnd she even figured maybe the time she couldnt spend serving during training sessions paid off, in a way, because she was forced to work on other aspects of her game, including footwork.I couldnt hit any balls. I wanted to stay fit, so ... I guess that kind of helped me out a little bit, she said.In 2015, Williams arrived at the U.S. Open having won four consecutive major titles for a self-styled Serena Slam. But had she won the championship in New York, too, she would have made it 4 for 4 within a single season, something no one had done since Graf in 1988.But that pursuit ended with a surprising semifinal loss to Roberta Vinci of Italy.Later, Williams acknowledged what was at stake had been a burden.Williams was asked Tuesday whether this edition of the U.S. Open might be a more pleasant experience than a year ago, without the same sort of history on the line.I had a great experience last year. I was going for something that no one has done in a really long time, she replied. Yeah, it didnt end out wonderful for me, or the way I wanted it to end, but it was all I could do. Thats all I could do. If I could make the semis this year, Id be excited about that.---Follow Howard Fendrich on Twitter at http://twitter.com/HowardFendrich ' ' '