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Osorio took the first game. Sabalenka took everything that mattered after it, and the defence of her US Open title is under way.

Ten thousand simulations, one lopsided men’s draw Opta put the 2026 US Open bracket through its supercomputer in the days after the draw was made. Ten thousand runs later, the men’s verdict came back without much ambiguity: Carlos Alcaraz is the favorite to defend his title, at 13.2%. Where he sits matters more than the…

Eight break points squandered, and it still looked easy Jessica Pegula opened her US Open with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Elena-Gabriela Ruse on Sunday in New York. The scoreline reads clean. The tennis was not, at least not early. The third seed burned eight break points in the third game before she finally broke…

Two hours, most of them after midnight The first ball went up at 0:13 local time. The last one came down at 2:01. Sofia Kenin beat Venus Williams 6-2, 7-6 (6) in a first-round match played to a stadium that had largely gone home, one former Grand Slam champion against a woman with seven of…

Two sets to one up, then 6-2, 6-1 gone Mariano Navone arrived at Flushing Meadows without a seeding next to his name and left Sunday having knocked out Novak Djokovic: 7-6 (5), 5-7, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1. Djokovic was the No. 4 seed and a four-time champion here. He lost the opening tie-break, then reeled off…

Leylah Fernandez gave Zhang Shuai five games and nothing else on day one. The 2021 finalist is through to the second round in New York.

Dayana Yastremska levelled the match, then won a single game in the decider. Lucrezia Stefanini takes the first round 6-3, 4-6, 6-1.

A few weeks ago Denis Shapovalov walked off court in Montreal. On Sunday he went four sets with Miomir Kecmanovic and finished the stronger.

Jasmine Paolini needed three sets to get past Veronika Erjavec on Louis Armstrong. She is through, and she was warned.