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US Open 2025 Women’s Day 3
Iga Swiatek produced a lucky seventh straight first-round win at the US Open on Tuesday with the Pole defeating 84th-ranked Colombian Emiliana Arango. 6-1, 6-2 to set a minor record.
The 24-year-old’s 65 straight opening wins at the WTA level edges the 64 of great Monica Seles from three decades ago..
Six-time grand Slam champion Swiatek, who won Wimbledon last month, took leads in both sets on her way to victory in 61 minutes over the outclassed Colombian.
The second seed and recent Cincinnati winner now stands 26-1 in Grand Slam opening matches after earning her 50th match victory of 2025.
The 2022 champion here has won 15 of her last 16 matches and drew strong support from expatriate fans in the Flushing Meadows crowd.
“Polish fans are kind of everywhere. It’s super nice to feel the support always,” she said. “They’re around the world too, every place I play. I feel every year it’s more. I just hope they’ll enjoy my game.”
Swiatek advanced with 26 winners to five for her opponent. “First matches are not easy to get used to the rhythm and it was a solid match,” the winner said.
“I am happy that I wasn’t trying to overpower and I was solid.”
Katie Boulter fought to save five match points but saw her effort wasted in a 6-4, 6-4 loss to Marta Kostyuk.
The Briton, who lost in the New York first round for the first time since 2021, has never been to the second week of a major.
Boulter failed to fire on three break point chances, with her Ukrainian opponent sweeping five points in a row to book the second round after the Brit saved the match points in a long penultimate game.
The Brit dropped to 1-5 since Wimbledon, where she exited in the second round.
Compatriot Sonay Kartal also crashed out a 6-3, 1-6, 6-1 victim of Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia, who looked to be cramping as she dropped serve to still lead 3-1 but took fightback strength from enthusiastic Brazilian fans.
Kartal appeared to still be carrying a knee injury from Wimbledon, where she made a surprise appearance in the fourth round.
US-born Australian Maya Joint won a match at a major this season for the first time, defeating Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva of Andorra 6-4, 7-6 (6) after coming from 2-5 down in the second set.
World No. 9 Wimbledon finalist Amanda Anisimova reached the second round 6-3, 6-3 over Aussie Kim Birrell, sealing the deal with a fourth ace..
Swiss Viktorija Golubic fought back to defeat Roland Garros semi-finalist Lois Boisson 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2.
Main photo:- Marta Kostyuk beat Katie Boulter – by Mark Greenwood/Grandslamtennis
World No. 2 Jannik Sinner became the youngest man to complete the full set of hard-court victories by beating Daniil Medvedev 7-6 (8) 7-6 (7) in the searing heat of Indian Wells.
The 24 year old Italian, didn’t face a break point during the final nor did he drop a set on his way to claiming his first title of the year and his 25th overall.
Sinner has won both hard court Grand Slams, with victories at the Australian Open in 2024 and 2025 and at the US Open in 2024.
In addition he has lifted all six Masters 1000 series hard court titles – adding the Indian Wells title to victories in Miami, Toronto, Cincinnati, Shanghai and Paris plus the season-ending ATP Finals.
Only Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer have achieved the same feat.
Main photo:- Jannik Sinner lifts Indian Wells Trophy – by ATPTour.com
Felix Auger-Aliassime bounced back after a slow start, with the Canadian raiding his game along with his expectations on Wednesday at the ATP Dubai event.
The top seed survived the loss of his opening serve to prevail 6-4, 6-4 over France’s Giovanni Mpetschi Perricard.
Victory marked the 10th quarter-final or higher at 11 tournament for FAA dating to Cincinnati last August.
The seed’s game is on the mend after a hiccup in the form of an Australian Open first-round loss, with FAA winning the Montpellier title and reaching this month’s Rotterdam final against Alex de Minaur.
Auger-Aliassime said that he tries to set an example to his team by way of keeping his tennis standards high.
“I’m responsible, I’m the one stepping onto the court – I’m the (support) team leader.
“I need to uphold the standards I want for my career.”
The winner who broke three times, said the ball reacted differently as he played for the first time in the afternoon.
“I couldn’t find my serve in the first few games, I needed to get some rhythm. he also made it difficult for me. I’m glad I was able to find a way back into the set.
The Canadian No. 1 improved his record against French opponents to 15-1 since the start of 2025.
The ATP has bowed to the inevitability of weather, with a new heat rule for men’s matches due to be put into place for the start of the 2026 season.
While the WTA has long provided a pause after the second set of matches played in extreme hot weather, that’ not been the general case for the men.
Now, players will get a break when temps and humidity factors reach 30.1 C (86.18 F) or higher in the first two sets of a best-of-three-setter.
That triggers a 10-minute cooling break which can be called by either payer and which will apply to both. Competitors can use the brief pause to hydrate, change clothes, shower and receive coaching.
Should the heat exceed 32.2 C the match is called off.
.The new policy will replace the previous system where ATP tournament supervisors made the call with input from on-site medical staff.
The ATP will now fall into line with the WTA system as well as that of the four Grand Slams.
The tipping point came last season, when Jannik Sinner had to quit his third-round October match in Shanghai due to heat exhaustion in admittedly freak conditions for China in the autumn.
Novak Djokovic vomited during a match while France’s Ugo Humbert said players could “die on court” due to the torrid conditions. At the August Masters in steamy Cincinnati, Arthur Rinderknech collapsed on court, another data point which apparently led to the policy change
Main photo US Open New York 06/09/2023 Daniil Medvedev cools down
Photo Roger Parker International Sports Fotos Ltd
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