February 3, 2025

Open Court

MORE TENNIS THAN YOU'LL EVER NEED

Qualifiers placed in US Open main draws

It took rather longer than expected, as a lightning warning shut down play for awhile. Then the rain hit.

But by 9:30 p.m. Friday, Olga Danilovic of Serbia had defeated American Caroline Dolehide 6-4, 0-6, 6-2 and the US Open qualifying was complete.

Next step was placing the qualifiers in the main draw.

And world No. 1 Novak Djokovic got an intriguing matchup with 18-year-old up-and-comer Holger Rune of Denmark.

Unfortunately, the news wasn’t great for the Canadian women.

Qualifier Rebecca Marino got No. 5 seed Elina Svitolina. (The next qualifier down the list, Rebeka Masarova, drew … Ana Bogdan).

And Leylah Fernandez, who was waiting to see which qualifier she would play, got former top-20 Croat Ana Konjuh.

Here are the qualifiers – and their first-round opponents – in alphabetical order.

Men’s singles qualifier – and lucky losers

Maxime Cressy (USA) =======> [9] Pablo Carreño Busta (ESP)

Evgeny Donskoy (RUS) =======> [12] Félix Auger-Aliassime (CAN)

Christopher Eubanks (USA) =======> Frances Tiafoe (USA)

Peter Gojowczyk (GER) =======> [23] Ugo Humbert (FRA)

Quentin Halys (FRA) =======> Dominik Koepfer (GER)

Antoine Hoang (FRA) =======> Thiago Monteiro (BRA)

Cem Ilkel (TUR) =======> [Q] Alex Molcan (SVK)

Ivo Karlovic (CRO) =======> [5] Andrey Rublev (RUS)

Henri Laaksonen (SUI) =======> John Millman (USA)

Kamil Majchrzak (POL) =======>Emil Ruusuvuori (FIN)

Alex Molcan (SVK) =======> [Q] Cem Ilkel (TUR)

Oscar Otte (GER) =======> [20] Lorenzo Sonego (ITA)

Holger Rune (DEN) =======> [1] Novak Djokovic (SRB)

Maximilan Marterer (GER) =======> Steve Johnson (USA)

Marco Trungelliti (ARG) =======> [29] Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP)

Botic Van de Zandschulp (NED) =======> Carlos Taberner (ESP)

[LL] Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) =======> Pablo Andujar (ESP}

[LL] Bernabe Zapata Miralles (ESP) =======> Feliciano Lopez (ESP)

Women’s qualifiers – and lucky losers

Katie Boulter (GBR) =======> Liudmila Samsonova (RUS)

Cristina Bucsa (ESP) =======> Jil Teichmann (SUI)

Olga Danilovic (SRB) =======>[WC] Alycia Parks (USA)

Harriet Dart (GBR) =======> Caroline Garcia (FRA)

Dalma Galfi (HUN) =======>[30] Petra Martic (CRO)

Valentini Grammatikopoulou (GRE) =======>Anna Blinkova (RUS)

Ana Konjuh (CRO) =======> Leylah Fernandez (CAN)

Jamie Loeb (USA) =======>[7] Iga Swiatek (POL)

Rebecca Marino (CAN) =======> [5] Elina Svitolina (UKR)

Rebeka Masarova (ESP) =======> Ana Bogdan (ROU)

Nuria Parrizas Diaz (ESP) =======> Varvara Gracheva (RUS)

Kristyna Pliskova (CZE) =======> Danka Kovinic (MNE)

Emma Raducanu (GBR) =======> [13] Jennifer Brady (USA)

Elena-Gabriela Ruse (ROU) =======> Marketa Vondrousova (CZE)

Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (SVK) =======>[WC] Ashlyn Krueger (USA)

Astra Sharma (AUS) =======> [8] Barbora Krejcikova (CZE)

[LL] Kristina Kucova (SVK) =======> Ann Li (USA)

[LL] Mayar Sherif (EGY) =======> Anhelina Kalinina (UKR)

[LL] Viktoriya Tomova (BUL) =======> Lauren Davis (USA)

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