1 ranking. Aryna Sabalenka came to the U.S. Open, struggling and in danger of losing the No.
Polina Iatcenko, of Russia, left, and Aryna Sabalenka, of Belarus, meet at the net after Sabalenka wins a match during the second round of the U.S. Open tennis championships. | Photo Credit: AP A number of players have only finished one match. “So I think I’m just going to take that one and run, I guess, until the next round. No. Alex de Minaur, the No. He finally started his U.S.
Jessica Pegula was one, needing only 56 minutes to defeat Sofia Kenin 6-3, 6-1. Kenin, the 2020 Australian Open champion, beat Venus Williams in her first match. 8 seed Ben Shelton followed Pegula on Ashe and beat Hubert Hurkacz 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (3), 7-5, while No. 7 Daniil Medvedev raced past Sebastian Gorzny — except for a brief delay to protest the chair umpire’s decision to replay a point when two birds sat on the net — 6-3, 6-3, 7-5. 6 seed from Australia, said with all the juggling his match was moved twice from the court where he was originally scheduled. Open on Wednesday on Court 11 and beat Italy’s Andrea Guerrieri 6-2, 6-2, 6-4.
“Happy with the level I played today, happy with the focus and happy to be through this match,” Sabalenka said. “To be out of there in under an hour, it doesn’t always happen,” Pegula said.
“It’s been a couple tough days. “There’s too much to play for to let something like this affect you. “We cannot control the rain, so it’s difficult for both players.
4 Coco Gauff. The first round was finally completed late Wednesday (September 2, 2026), a day when 25 men’s singles matches were scheduled to get the tournament back on track.
But I mean, these tournaments, it’s all about adapting, and that’s the name of the game,” de Minaur said. Paula Badosa said she didn’t even know how to prepare for the resumption of her match against Daria Kasatkina, which was halted Tuesday with her one game from winning to set up a second-round match against No. “I knew it wasn’t going to be easy because I was waiting a lot yesterday and today as well, but it is what it is,” Jodar said.