2023-08-24 16:37:53
Canadians Leylah Fernandez and Bianca Andreescu might face each other in the second round of the United States Open tennis tournament, which was drawn on Thursday at noon.
Fernandez and Andreescu find themselves in the same portion of the table and will cross swords if they win their first match once morest the Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova (2nd seed) and the Ukrainian Leisa Tsurenko, respectively.
For her part, Vancouver’s Rebecca Marino will play once morest Romanian Patricia Maria Tig.
Among the men, Félix Auger-Aliassime (15th) will face the American Mackenzie McDonald, while Milos Raonic did not play luck since he will face the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (7th). Ontario’s Denis Shapovalov is out of the tournament due to a knee injury.
McDonald distinguished himself at the last Canadian Open by reaching the quarter-finals. He had previously knocked out Raonic by defeating him in straight sets in the third round.
In addition, defending champion Iga Swiatek and one of the local favorites Coco Gauff have been placed in the same quarter table.
Gauff, seeded sixth, defeated Swiatek recently en route to the title in Cincinnati. She had lost each of her first seven matches once morest the Pole, including the French Open final in 2022. Gauff is 11-1 since a first-round elimination at Wimbledon. She will play once morest a player from the qualifiers in the first round.
The other quarter-finals might pit Elena Rybakina once morest Maria Sakkari, Aryna Sabalenka once morest 2022 finalist Ons Jabeur and Jessica Pegula once morest Caroline Garcia.
Pegula, who has never reached the quarterfinals in a Grand Slam, faces the experienced Italian Camila Giorgi in the first round.
The venerable Venus Williams, 43 and two-time champion in the spotlight in New York, will face Spaniard Paula Badosa. The latter was ranked second in the world last year, but slipped to 46th.
Finally, the return of Novak Djokovic following a one-year absence since he was not vaccinated once morest COVID-19 will be with a duel once morest a player who will be playing his first career match at the tournament.
The favorite Carlos Alcaraz, champion at Flushing Meadows in 2022, and the Italian Jannik Sinner, sixth seed, might once more cross swords in the quarter-finals. Last year, Alcaraz beat Sinner in five sets in a game that ended at 2:50 a.m., the latest game to end in tournament history.
Djokovic is back where he won three of his 23 major titles. The 36-year-old Serb was unable to participate in the tournament last year as his vaccination status prevented him from traveling to the United States. He returned home for the first time in two years last week for the Cincinnati tournament. He defeated Alcaraz in the final in a duel lasting almost four hours.
The challenge will be different for Djokovic in the first round next week. He will face Alexandre Müller, a 26-year-old Frenchman who is ranked No. 85 in the world and will be making his main draw debut at Flushing Meadows. Müller lost in the first round of qualifying in 2021 and 2022. He appears to be unlucky in Grand Slam draws, as he faced Alcaraz at Wimbledon and Sinner at Roland Garros.
Alcaraz will have a date with Germany’s Dominik K?pfer, who reached the fourth round at Flushing Meadows in 2019.
The other quarterfinals might pit 2021 champion Daniil Medvedev once morest Andrey Rublev, Djokovic once morest Tsitsipas and Holger Rune once morest Casper Ruud.
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