Here's what's happening Tuesday at the U.S. Open:
Osaka and Blinkova are headed to a third set.
The top-seeded Naomi Osaka, the defending champion, is one set from elimination in the first round after dropping the second set to 84th-ranked Anna Blinkova of Russia at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Osaka trailed by 1-4 in the first set before reeling off five straight games to claim it. The second had a topsy-turvy finish: Osaka saved three set points on her serve at 4-5, then broke Blinkova at love to put herself in position to serve for the win.
Osaka earned a match point at 6-5, 40-30, but then committed three unforced errors to put herself into a tiebreaker, which Blinkova won 7-5 on her second set point.
At Louis Armstrong Stadium, the eighth-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas is also a set from elimination, down two sets to one against Andrey Rublev. This result would be less surprising because Rublev showed his potential earlier this month with a win over Roger Federer in Cincinnati.
Alison Riske continues her summer surge.
Alison Riske of Pittsburgh backed up her Wimbledon breakthrough with a strong start to her U.S. Open with a 2-6, 6-1, 6-3 victory over the former No. 1 Garbiñe Muguruza, a two-time Grand Slam champion.
Riske, who beat then-No. 1 Ashleigh Barty to reach the quarterfinals at Wimbledon last month, is ranked 36th, and could be one of the most dangerous unseeded players in the draw. Riske, known as a grass-court specialist, had not won a match at the U.S. Open in six years.
Since Wimbledon, Riske married into an Indian tennis dynasty, wedding Stephen Amritraj last month. Muguruza, a champion at the French Open three years ago and at Wimbledon two years ago, was playing her first Grand Slam event after separating from her longtime coach Sam Sumyk.
Naomi Osaka wins her first set of the tournament.
Around noon on Tuesday, Naomi Osaka walked onto the court at Arthur Ashe Stadium to begin defending her women’s singles title at the United States Open.
The scene was far different from the last time she played a match on that court, in last year’s controversy-riddled final against Serena Williams. Osaka was in tears at that award ceremony as boos filled the stadium in response to a dispute between Williams and the chair umpire, Carlos Ramos.
The early-afternoon crowd for her match on Tuesday against Anna Blinkova was sparse and largely quiet, as is often the case in cavernous Ashe Stadium at this time of day.
Osaka has a different coach since last year, a suspect left knee and a hope to reclaim the excitement she brought to last year’s run.
She followed her title in New York last September with a championship at the Australian Open in January, but she has struggled to play at the same level since then. She has shown spark in the hardcourts season this summer, reaching the quarterfinals in Toronto and Cincinnati.
Blinkova has never made it past the first round at the U.S. Open, but advanced to the third round at the French Open this year.
Osaka lost the first three games of the first set, immediately causing concern about her knee, but she reeled off five games in a row to close it out, 6-4.
Next generation of men take the stage.
Dominic Thiem, the fourth seed in the men’s draw, will follow Osaka at Ashe. He has looked to be the most promising threat to the dominance of the Big Three of Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer over the past few years. But he has struggled to threaten them on surfaces other than clay. His hardcourts title in March at Indian Wells was one step in proving he can be taken seriously, but he played only one hardcourts warm-up tournament before the Open.
Thiem, 25, is among the top players in the next generation of men’s tennis who are in action Tuesday. Eighth-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas is taking on a talented young Russian, Andrey Rublev, who upset Roger Federer in Cincinnati this month. Sixth-seeded Alexander Zverev plays Radu Albot. Thiem, Tsitsipas and Zverev all lost in the first round of Wimbledon last month.
In a highly anticipated rematch, Denis Shapovalov, 20 and Felix Auger-Aliassime, 19, will face each other in the same round, on the same court (Grandstand), in the same time slot (fourth match), as they did last year. But the two young Canadians have switched roles. Last year, Shapovalov was the 28th seed and Auger-Aliassime was ranked 117th. Now Auger-Aliassime is ranked higher, at No. 18 to Shapovalov’s No. 33.
Coco Gauff is back in action Tuesday.
Coco Gauff, the 15-year-old breakout star at Wimbledon, was awarded a wild card to play in the U.S. Open. She will face Anastasia Potapova, 18 and ranked No. 72, at Louis Armstrong Stadium on Tuesday afternoon (not before 3 p.m.). Potapova may not be as intimidating a first-round prospect as Venus Williams was at the All England Club, but Gauff has spoken frequently about staying grounded and playing each match in isolation. Can she can handle the loud roars of Queens as well as she did the polite rustles of Wimbledon?
More matches to watch on Tuesday
Here’s a guide to some other matches worth keeping an eye on Tuesday, whether you are at the National Tennis Center or watching on TV.
Simona Halep vs. Nicole Gibbs
The fourth-seeded Halep, who won Wimbledon in July, has not looked particularly dominant in her two hardcourts tournaments since then. She has made it as far as the semifinals at the U.S. Open only once, and has lost in the first round the past two years — as the No. 1 and No. 2 seed. Gibbs, who recently returned from treatment for salivary gland cancer, entered the draw as a lucky loser after playing three sets in each of her qualifying matches.
Rafael Nadal vs. John Millman, 7 p.m.
Millman reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open last year after beating Roger Federer in the fourth round under the lights at Ashe Stadium. Nadal’s physical brand of tennis has hurt him on the hardcourts of Flushing Meadows in the past, though he has won three U.S. Opens among his 18 Grand Slam titles. He had to pull out of his semifinal against Juan Martín del Potro last year because of a knee injury. He’ll hope to keep those troubles at bay as long as possible this year. This month, he won the only U.S. Open tuneup event he entered, in Montreal.
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Victoria Azarenka, 7 p.m.
Look for an exciting match filled with big serves and hard-hitting rallies between these two Belarussians. Sabalenka, who reached the fourth round last year, is ranked No. 14 after a strong hardcourts season, reaching the final at the Silicon Valley Classic. Although Azarenka has reached the U.S. Open final twice, she has not been able to recapture her excellent form since her return from injuries and a pregnancy hiatus in 2016.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/sports/tennis/us-open-schedule-results.html
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