She seemed out of sorts in the match, hitting 46 unforced errors to Rodina’s 18 in a 7-6(2), 6-1 loss. 76, was the surprise headliner of Wednesday’s packed schedule, slotted into the first match on Arthur Ashe Stadium against 89th-ranked Evgeniya Rodina.īouchard, who reached two Grand Slam semifinals and a Wimbledon final in 2014, was a rising star of the game but has sputtered recently. Read about Minor and her tennis-loving family.Įugenie Bouchard, ranked No. Division I women’s singles champion, lost her U.S. Open crowd favorite, served for the match against Nao Hibino, but lost 12 of the last 15 points to fall, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5, in the first round. Monfils will next play Donald Young of the United States. Ben Austen recently profiled Monfils for The New York Times Magazine. 18 seed and a semifinalist last year, opened his tournament with a 7-6 (6), 6-3, 6-4 victory against his fellow Frenchman Jérémy Chardy. 24 Juan Martin del Potro won his first-round match, 6-4, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5), on Ashe Stadium against Henri Laaksonen. 15 seed, topped the American Ryan Harrison, 6-4, 6-2, 7-6 (4). ■ Seventh-seeded Grigor Dimitrov, who won the Cincinnati event last week, cruised into the second round with a 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 win over Vaclav Safranek. 27 seed Pablo Cuevas also lost, 7-5, 7-6(3), 6-1, to Damir Dzumhur. The qualifier Stefano Travaglia upset his Italian countryman Fabio Fognini, the No. Mayer earned a spot in the main draw as a lucky loser from qualifying. 26 seed on the men’s side, fell in the first round to Leonardo Mayer, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2. ■ Nicolas Mahut, a qualifier, knocked out 20th-seeded Albert Ramos-Viñolas, 4-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-0 in a second-round match. 22 Shuai Peng was beaten by Donna Vekic, 6-0, 6-2. 14 seed Kristina Mladenovic, who has struggled since the French Open, lost to Monica Niculescu, 6-3, 6-2. ■ Fourth-seeded Elina Svitolina lost the second set after her first-round match against Katerina Siniakova resumed, but won the match, 6-0, 6-7 (5), 6-3.
Thiem will next face the 19-year-old American Taylor Fritz, who gained his first win at a Grand Slam tournament, beating Marcos Baghdatis, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3. ■ Sixth-seeded Dominic Thiem quickly finished off a match suspended Tuesday, defeating Alex de Minaur, 6-4, 6-1, 6-1. Another American man, Jared Donaldson, pushed No. 17 Sam Querrey joined Isner in the next round with a 6-4, 6-1, 6-4 victory over Dudi Sela. 10 seed and highest-ranked American man, moved on to the third round with a 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 win over Hyeon Chung of South Korea. ■Garbiñe Muguruza’s second-round match did not start until after 10 p.m., but she quickly dispatched Ying-Ying Duan, 6-4, 6-0, in 1 hour 5 minutes. ■The last match to finish was fifth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki’s 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-1 loss to Ekaterina Makarova. There were 87 matches, a mix of first-rounders and second-rounders. After rain suspended or postponed all but nine matches on Tuesday, Wednesday’s schedule is bursting.
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