The US Open
US Open 2025 Women’s Day 4
Last year’s finalist Jessica Pegula put her 2024 loss to Aryna Sabalenka further into the rearview mirror on Wednesday as the fourth seed dispatched Anna Blinkova, 6-1, 6-3 to advance to the US Open third round.
The American now stands a near-flawless 4-1 in the series. Pegula took a 4-1 lead in the opening set to set the tone and recovered from an early break down in the second set before racing to victory.
Pegula had 30 winners to seven for her opponent.
“I’m glad I came out quickly today,” she said as she moved into a match with Victoria Azarenka.
Double Grand Slam champion Azarenka reached the Open third round for the 15th time with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
The three-time New York runner-up now ranked 132, advanced in 87 minutes over this season’s Australian Open and Wimbledon quarter-finalist.
“She started really strong, I had to find my feet and get my intensity up and start making more first balls and dictating more,” Azarenka said. “But after a few games, I started to find my form a little bit.”
Tennis rich-list leader Emma Navarro, whose billionaire father owns two American tournaments, booked the third round 6-2, 6-1 over US compatriot Cathy McNally.
Navarro had little to recommend her coming into the Open, having lost five of her last six singles matches; she converted on seven of eight break point chances against her compatriot.
2021 titleholder Emma Raducanu produced an identical one-way scoreline as the Briton ended the dream run of Indonesian minnow Janice Tjen, ranked 149.
Raducanu fired 16 winners including eight aces as she set a personal speed record for a match, finishing the rout in exactly one hour after a 62-minute win in the first round here.

The only niggle for WTA No. 34 Raducanu might have been a slight back problem which she shook off in the second set against the Asian who attended university in the US.
“I’m very pleased with how I kept dictating the points and didn’t let her too often get her front foot on the court,” Raducanu said. “. She’s obviously been playing very well, done a lot of winning.
“Of course I was on full alert playing today; I’m just very pleased with that performance.”
She said her injury scare was really nothing: “I just had a little bit of stiffness in the second set. I’ve been doing a lot of training, and I’m just happy it didn’t affect me too much.
“I was still able to compete and to perform well and keep putting out good serves, good returns.I think it didn’t really come into the match too much, which I’m happy with.”
The other long-odds joker in the women’s draw, Alexandre Eala of the Philippines, was eliminated 6-3, 6-4 by Spain’s Cristina Busca.
Main photo:-Jessica Pegula winning today – by Mark Greenwood Grandslamtennis
The Australian Open
Wimbledon goes modern with electronic reviews
Wimbledon will bow to the high-tech future by introducing limited electronic reviews of line calls on major courts at the Championships, the club revealed on Saturday.
The All England Club will allow the technology on showcourts including Centre Court, No. 1 and four others. During controversial moments, competitors will be allowed to ask the chair umpire for a review of the point in question.
The wizardry is coming late to Wimbledon having been used at the US Open since 2023 and later adapted by the Australian Open. Roland Garros relies on marks in its clay surface to determine line calls.
Under the rules, players can ask for the review any number of times, with electronic line-calling now in effect at the grass-court major for a second year after the 2025 elimination of human line judges.
ATP
Sinner claims full house with Indian Wells win
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
Indian wells
Her way or the highway for Raducanu on court
Emma Raducanu remained defiant at the start of the Indian Wells Masters that if she does hire a new coach, it might not be to try and shape her game.
The Brit who won the 2021 US Open as a qualifier and then suffered a four-year drop in form due to injury, is in the market for a mentor – but only if he or she conforms to her vision for her tennis.
“Right now, it’s more about bringing my instincts back out, getting back in touch with myself,” the 23-year-old told the BBC. “I have had a lot of people telling me what to do, how to play, and it hasn’t necessarily fit.
“So I want to come back to my natural way of playing. That takes time to relearn because that’s something that has been coached out of me a little bit.
“I don’t necessarily want to have one coach in the role because anyone I bring in is straight away going to be scrutinised – even if it’s a trial.
“I might feel the pressure to stick with them, even if it’s not necessarily the right decision.
“I would love to have a coach that works well, but I don’t think it’s necessarily going to be easy to find one person and they are going to check every box.”
Raducanu reached a WTA fiak in early February after exiting in the Australian Open second round. She lost both matches she played last month in the Gulf, at Doha and Dubai.
She is entering the first Masters of the season with former coach Mark Petchey filling in ad hoc in between his TV broadcast commentating duties.
But that solution is temporary. “With Mark I knew he’d be in Indian Wells so I asked him to come out a few days earlier just to do some stuff with me on the court and try to feel back in a better way with my game,” the No. 24 said.
“At the start of the year I didn’t feel too good but the last few days I’ve been feeling better.
“It’s not something that has really been organised going forward but I knew he would be here and it’s been great, I always love being on court with him.”
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