World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka started her open-title defense on Sunday and Rebeka Masarova, a Russia born in Russia, 7-5 6-1, while Alexandra Eala of the Philippines of the Philippines of the Philippines of the Philippines up 14th placed on day 1, and Emma.
I have not chosen to play on Sunday, but if you win the game, it feels great. You have an extra day off, which can be good and bad. But I think I got used to it personally, and I like it a bit. I get older, I’d rather have an extra day. Aryna Sabalenka
The US Open has been extended to 15 days, starting a day earlier than traditional, in which the 1st round singles promotion is disputed from Sunday to Tuesday, instead of more than 2 days as in previous years, which the Sterat attractions distributes and allows access for another 70,000 spectators to allow both Arthur Ashe Stadium and Louis Stadium and Louis Stadium and Louis.
Sabalenka was one of the selection names on the schedule of the opening day, and De Wit -Russia fed the vocal ashe -mixed to overcome Masarova, who gave the no. 1 seed an early test, but it was all over in 81 minutes.
“When I won that first set, and you cheered for me, I got goose bumps,” said Sabalenka, who will take on the Russian Polina Kudermetova on Wednesday in the 2nd round. “Your support means a lot to me, thanks for coming. It was a great atmosphere.”
Sabalenka was challenged in the first set and kept Serve at 5-5 and broke Masarova to conquer it.
The second was much easier, when De Wit -Russia came out in a routine way and finished on the net, and won 15 of 17 points for the game.
“Happy to be in the second round,” said Sabalenka. “I feel that I didn’t start at my best in the first games, but then I found my rhythm. Yes, happy with the level I played today.”
Sabalenka, who converted 5 of her 6 break opportunities, while Masarova knew only 1 of 5, ended with 19 winners, against 15 casual mistakes. The songs of her opponent, 16 and 21, were roughly the opposite.
Sabalenka was then asked to play on the new opening day of the US Open.
‘Well, it’s a difficult question, “she said.” I have not chosen to play on Sunday, but if you win the game, it feels great. You have an extra day off, which can be good and bad. But I think I got used to it personally, and I like it a bit. I get older, I’d rather have an extra day. ‘
Last year’s victory here in New York was the 3rd career Grand Slam Singles title of Sabalenka, and it helped her to the No. 1 ranking, which she has now maintained for 44 weeks.
After reaching the final on the Australian Open and Roland Garros and the semi -final in Wimbledon, this Sabalenka’s last chance to win a major this year.
“I learned many difficult lessons on the Grand Slams this season,” said Sabalenka. “How important it is? Quite important. I really hope for the best here at the US Open.”
Despite a personal precedent, after he had repeated with title victories on the Australian Open in 2024, a broader history suggests that it will be difficult to reach in New York, with Serena Williams the last woman who defended the US Open Title of 2012-14, while there have been 10 different champions in New York in the last 11 years.
“My thought is to change that,” Sabalenka said smiling. “My hope, I would say. But wow, that’s insane, you know how unpredictable woman tennis is, right?
“I think it is certainly a lot of pressure, perhaps, perhaps, every time that defensive champions come, and they put so much pressure on themselves. But I feel that I am experienced enough to just concentrate on myself and try to replicate that result.”
Nuria Parrizas-Diaz took an annoying tumbling and had to withdraw from her opening match against Polina Kudermetova on the US Open on Sunday, who met Aryna Sabalenka in round 2
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Polina Kudermetova, the next opponent of Sabalenka, went ahead when Nuria Parrizas Diaz retired due to injury.
The run of the Spaniard ended after just 24 minutes when she was forced to withdraw into tears of her 1st round game at the US Open after a horror ankle injury only 4 games in the game.
With 2 breaking points in her hand, she turned her ankle and fell on the field 7, grabbed her ankle from pain and covered her face with a towel while the court staff hurried to help her.
The 34-year-old broke into tears while Balkinderen hurried with umbrellas to protect her while she waited for the physiotherapist to arrive at the field.
There was a considerable delay when she received medical treatment before she tried to continue the game, But she soon realized that it was impossible to continue and withdraw.
The British Emma Raducanu opened the game on Armstrong and won her first game at the US Open since her Triumph 2021 as the first qualification that won the tournament 4 years ago and beat the Japanese qualifying match Ena Shibahara, 6-1 6-2.
“I felt different this year to get in,” said Raducanu, who lost in the first round in 2022 and 2024. “I felt that I was doing the right things from day to day, but still, it’s in mind. So I am just very happy that I conquered that.”
Leylah Fernandez of Canada, who lost to Raducanu in the last 4 years ago, defeated her countryman Rebecca Marino, that qualification, 6-2 6-1.
10th Seed Emma Navarro survived a strict challenge of Wang Yafan but prevailed Sunday
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No 10 Seed, Emma Navarro, also prevailed on the opening day, eventually beating Wang Yafan van China, 7-6 (9) 6-3.
The first meeting of the couple started a rough start in the stands, without being achieved in the 5th game, when Navarro took a 3-2 lead.
However, the next service game of the American contained 5 double errors and 9 deeuces before Wang converted the 6th breaking point to take a 4-3 lead.
Three games later, however, Navarro saved a set point at 5-5 at 5-5, and she eventually converted in the tiebreak by converting her 4th set point to win the set after an hour and 16 minutes.
The second turned out to be easier, with Navarro rising 3-2 when Wang took a medical time-out between matches to treat her left leg.
Navarro continued to 5-3 on Wang’s Serve and turned the game when she brought 30-30 with a drop-shot winner and then hit another winner to earn the match point when the Chinese shot stumbled, so that the American could come back in position for the point.
The World No 11 then converted its first match point to claim the victory.
“Certainly, I didn’t play my best tennis,” Navarro admitted on the field afterwards. “It was really a tough match, many ups and downs, but I only told myself:” I have to be tough “.”
Navarro will meet the American Caty McNally, a double US Open Runner-Up in Ladies Doubles, with Gauff in 2021 and Taylor Townsend in 2022, who was a 6-2 6-2 winner about Swiss Jil Teichmann.
Moyuka Uchijima drew the biggest escape from day 1 and saved 7 match points to beat Olga Danilovic after 3 hours and 9 minutes
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One day full of wild fluctuating 3-setters, the Japanese Moyuka Uchijima pulled the biggest escape, saving 7 match points to defeat Olga Danilovic from Serbia, 7-6 (2) 4-6 7-6[9].
Uchijima was confronted twice with triple match point when Danilovic served 5-3 in the third set, then on her own serve with 6-5.
In the Superbreaking Uchijima had a 6-1 lead slipping and had to save a 7th match point with 9-8 before she converted her first on a Danilovic double errors, after 3 hours and 9 minutes, the longest match of day 1.
Uchijima, who was in tears when she then bowed all 4 corners of the court, broke a 10-match losing streak that goes back to the Paris WTA 125 in May.
Two years after reaching the final of the US Open Girls, the 18-year-old qualifying match Tereza Valentova went to the main tour with a 6-3 3-6 6-4 victory over Lucia Bronzetti in Italy.
On her US Open debut, the Czech teenage 34 winners fired on Bronzettis 9 to make her 4th Top 100 victory and to expand her record from 2025 to 43-9.
Valentova also showed Fortitude to hold after missing her first 2 match points on 5-2 in the third set, eventually converted to the age of 5.
Another Czech, former Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova, also had to stop a late indictment by her opponent, qualifying Oksana Selekhmeteva from Russia, eventually won 6-3 7-6 (3).
The couple also met in the 1st Tour of Roland Garros in May, won Vondrousova 6-4 6-4.
In the repetition, she held her first 2 match points on 5-2 in the second set, but fell into passivity while the game of Selekhmeteva became more brutal, and 5 match points came and went for Vondrousova before they check the control in the breaker.
Jelena Ostapenko, no. 25 Seed, provided an efficient victory over qualifying rang XIYU in an hour and 37 minutes.
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One day full of turns and turns was one of the few players to keep it easy Jelena Ostapenko, the no. 25 seed from Latvia, which is normally known for its 3-set roller coaster, but an efficient 6-4 6-3 victory over the Chinese qualifying rise XIyu in one hour and 37 minutes.
The result was that Ostapenko’s first straight-sets victory in a major since Wimbledon 2024.
There were a handful of surprises, because Janice Tjen qualifying the first victory of Indonesia earned in a Grand Slam main table in 22 years when she switched the Russian 24th seed of Veronika Kudermetova, 6-4 4-6 6-4 6-4, while Alexandra brought the feet of the feet on their feet on their feet on their feet on their feet. van Denmark van Denmark, 6-3 2-6 7-6[11]In a nerve -racking affair in the stands.
“It was so difficult,” Eala said. “This competition is one for the books for me.”
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