The opening day of the U.S. Open claimed its biggest upset victim so far in No. 4 seed Holger Rune.
Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baena, ranked 63rd, downed Rune 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, on Monday for his first-ever victory over a top-10 player. Rune, a 20-year-old Dane who cracked the top 5 after reaching the quarterfinals of the French Open and Wimbledon, had complained before the match about being assigned to one of the outer courts, sarcastically tweeting a map of Flushing Meadows to help his fans find it.
바카라I just didn바카라t expect to play on that court,바카라 Rune said afterward. 바카라That바카라s obviously disappointing but not going to blame the court on the loss.바카라
On the women바카라s side, No. 1-ranked defending champion Iga Swiatek needed just 58 minutes to beat Swede Rebecca Peterson 6-0, 6-1, 19th-seeded Beatriz Haddad Maia took out 2017 champion Sloane Stephens 6-2, 5-7, 6-4, and fourth-seeded Elena Rybakina, last year바카라s Wimbledon champion, defeated Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine 6-2, 6-1.
Spaniard Rebeka Masarova upset eighth-seeded Maria Sakkari 6-4, 6-4, with the Greek complaining afterward she was bothered by the smell of marijuana.
바카라The smell, oh my gosh,바카라 Sakkari said to the chair umpire in the first set. 바카라It was weed.바카라
Tenth-seeded American Frances Tiafoe, a 25-year-old from Maryland who reached the semifinal at last year바카라s U.S. Open, had little trouble in a 6-2, 7-5, 6-1, victory over wild-card countryman Learner Tien.
Dominic Thiem, the 2020 champion who is unseeded this year, downed 25th-seeded Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-2, 6-4. Thiem, an Austrian who had lost his previous seven Grand Slam matches, next faces American Ben Shelton, who defeated Argentine Pedro Cachin in four sets.
The longest match so far, four hours and 29 minutes, went to Zhizhen Zhang of China, who outlasted American J.J. Wolf 7-5, 7-5, 6-7 (5), 4-6, 6-3.
Still to come are matches with Coco Gauff on the women바카라s side, and Novak Djokovic on the men바카라s.
Gauff, a 19-year-old from Florida, faces Laura Siegemund of Germany, who won the women바카라s doubles title in New York three years ago. Gauff was the runner-up at the French Open in singles 바카라 losing to Swiatek 바카라 and doubles in 2022.
Wrapping things up in the main stadium will be 23-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic against Alexandre Muller of France, who is making his U.S. Open debut. It marks a return to the event for Djokovic, who missed it last year because he couldn바카라t travel to the United States as a foreigner who is not vaccinated against COVID-19. That rule has been dropped.
The first round is played over Monday and Tuesday. The tournament lasts two weeks and wraps up with the women바카라s singles final on Sept. 9, and the men바카라s singles final on Sept. 10.
