US Open: Francesca Jones starts qualifications with profit

Top seeds Francesca Jones took the first step to reach the US Open Main Draw by winning her opening qualification, but Heather Watson was one of the four British losing on Tuesday.

British number four Jones defeated Slovakia Viktoria Hruncakova 6-3 6-4. She will be confronted on Wednesday with Ekaterine Gorgodze from Georgia, while she seems to reach the US Open Main Draw for the first time in her career.

Jones has never received direct access to a Grand Slam through her ranking and this time and missed scary, despite the fact that he has risen to a career-high 86th in the world since the US Open Cut-Off Point.

The 24-year-old six Azen in a match lasted an hour 22 minutes and achieved a profit percentage of 87% on her first portions.

In the meantime, former British number one Watson was defeated by Gorgodze with 6-3 3-6 4-6, because she could not reach the main drawing for a fourth consecutive year.

The number seven of the British women Harriet Dart shifted Romanian Anca Todoni off-Die 112 places above her in the ranking-7-5 6-7 (3-7) 7-6 (10-6).

British men number five Jan Choinski lost 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 to Argentina’s Andrea Collarini, but Oliver Crawford defeated Alex Bolt of Australia 5-7 6-4 6-4.

George Loffhagen was defeated 4-6 5-7 by Jason Kubler, while the 22-year-old Jack Pinnington Jones lost 6-3 7-6 (8-6) 7-6 (14-12).

Jodie Burrage started her qualifying campaign with a victory on Monday, but the British number five than Evans was eliminated and will miss the main drawing of a Grand Slam for the first time since 2018.

There are six British in action on Wednesday in the second qualifying round:

Players have to win three games in qualifying to continue to the most important singles for the tournament, which starts on Sunday.

Jack Draper, Cameron Norrie and Jacob Fearnley have direct access to the Herenshonkslagen, with Emma Raducanu, Katie Boulter and Sonay Kartal in the ladies.