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An ace to start, 80 minutes to finish. Coco Gauff is through at Flushing Meadows, and the world No. 1 ranking is still on the table.

Ten aces in one set, and still no cushion It was past midnight in New York by the time Naomi Osaka finally put away Anastasia Zakharova. 7-6 (6), 7-6 (3), on Arthur Ashe Stadium, first round of the US Open. Two sets, and a scoreline that hides how close the whole thing ran. Osaka was…

Two sets, no sparkle Aryna Sabalenka opened her tournament last night. The world No 1 beat Colombia’s Camila Osorio 6-2, 6-4 at Flushing Meadows. It was far from clean. Sabalenka hit 32 winners and 23 unforced errors. She took control of the first set by rattling off four straight games. Osorio coughed up five double…

The third seed is through in New York, but 50 unforced errors against 48 winners says plenty about how Felix Auger-Aliassime got there.

Iga Swiatek needed 88 minutes under the Louis Armstrong lights to see off Wang Xiyu. A quiet start to a US Open she badly wants.

Two sets down and heading for the exit, Frances Tiafoe turned his US Open opener around and came through 6-4, 4-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.

He was left out of the draw, then let back in. Stan Wawrinka used the reprieve to play one last major match, and the Grandstand gave him the send-off.

Fourteen unforced errors and a set gone in under half an hour. Ben Shelton fixed all of it and beat Tallon Griekspoor in four at the US Open.

Two tiebreaks, eleven aces and one thrown racket. Naomi Osaka needed all of it to get past Anastasia Zakharova under the Arthur Ashe lights.