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Day 1 at the US Open was “bottom half of the draw” time.

So Aryna Sabalenka is the headliner, playing the late-night match on Louis Armstrong while unseeded American Sloane Stephens got the 7 p.m. match on Arthur Ashe Stadium.

Welcome to America. That was to be Coco Gauff’s slot, but they bowed to her request not to play the night session.

So the day session had defending champion Gauff playing Varvara Gracheva, the Russian-turned-Frenchwoman who had played so well against Iga Swiatek in Cincinnati. On Monday, not too well.

Zheng v Anisimova and Keys v Siniakova were the other must-see matches on this opening day. The former had its moments; the latter was quick.

Lulu Sun, who has to jet from her first career WTA final all the way down in Monterrey Saturday night to play Monday in New York, got a late-afternoon slot.

But if you expected it to be a tough turnaround, it was. She retired after losing the first set.

US Open – Day 1 Men’s final results

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US Open
Location: Flushing Meadows, NY
Category: Grand Slam 
Surface: Hard Court
Dates: Aug.  26 – Sept. 8, 2024
Prize money: $75,000,000
Draw: S128 – D64 – X32

 

Monday, Aug. 26, 2024
Final results
Women’s singles , first round

Retirements

Wang Yafan (CHN) def [9] Maria Sakkari (GRE) 62 retd 

Lucia Bronzetti (ITA) def. Lulu Sun (NZL) 63 retd

 

Upsets

Jule Niemeier (GER) def [32] Dayana Yastremska (UKR) 46 76 (3) 64 

 

Big comebacks

Clara Burel (FRA) def Sloane Stephens (USA) 06 75 75

 

Qualifiers, WCs and PRs

[Q] Maya Joint (AUS) def Laura Siegemund (GER) 64 75

[WC] Iva Jovic (USA) def Magda Linette (POL) 64 63

[Q] Elena-Gabriela Ruse (ROU) def Julia Grabher (AUT) 62 64

[PR] Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) def Ann Li (USA) 64 64

 

Seeds scrambling

[7] Zheng Qinwen (CHN) def. [WC] Amanda Anisimova (USA) 46 64 62

[20] Victoria Azarenka (BLR) def. [Q] Yuliia Starodubtseva (UKR) 36 61 61

[27] Elina Svitolina (UKR) def. Maria Lourdes Carlé (ARG) 36 63 64

[29] Ekaterina Alexandrova (RUS) def. Viktorija Tomova (BUL) 67 (4) 60 75

[33] Elise Mertens (BEL) def Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) 36 64 63  

 

Seeds rolling

[2] Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) def. [Q] Priscilla Hon (AUS) 63 63

[3] Coco Gauff (USA) def. Varvara Gracheva (FRA) 62 60

[8] Barbora Krejcikova (CZE) def. [Q] Marina Bassols Ribera (ESP) 76 (3) 62

[12] Daria Kasatkina (RUS) def Jaqueline Cristian (ROU) 62 64

[13] Emma Navarro (USA) def Anna Blinkova (RUS) 61 61

[14] Madison Keys (USA) def. Katerina Siniakova (CZE) 64 61

[19] Marta Kostyuk (UKR) def [WC] McCartney Kessler (USA) 62 63

[24] Donna Vekic (CRO) def [Q] Kimberly Birrell (AUS) 64 64

[26] Paula Badosa (ESP) def Viktorija Golubic (SUI) 60 63

 

Other results (in alphabetical order)

Erika Andreeva (RUS) def Yuan Yue (CHN) 63 76 (7)

Harriet Dart (GBR) def Chloe Paquet (FRA) 61 62

Anhelina Kalinina (UKR) def. Océane Dodin (FRA) 61 36 61

Greet Minnen (BEL) def Magdalena Frech (POL) 75 75

Tatjana Maria (GER) def. [Q] Solana Sierra (ARG) 62 63

Diane Parry (FRA) def Wang Xiyu (CHN) 76 (2) 76 (5)

Arantxa Rus (NED) def Ana Bogdan (ROU) 64 76 (5)

Peyton Stearns (USA) def. Lesia Tsurenko (UKR) 61 75

Taylor Townsend (USA) def Martina Trevisan (ITA) 62 75

Moyuka Uchijima (JPN) def. Tamara Korpatsch (GER) 36 63 64

 

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US Open – Day 2 Women’s OOP

US Open – Day 2 Men’s OOP

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