The most important thing from the night of the last Grand Slam tournament of the year in Flushing Meadows, short and crisp.
Altmaier wins five-sentence thrillers
Daniel Altmaier – Hamad Medjedovic 7: 5, 6: 7, 7: 6, 6: 7, 6: 4
What a effort: Daniel Altmaier moved into the second round after a real five-set thriller at the US Open. The German number two, which has been in New York for a week and has intensively prepared for the Grand Slam tournament in the Big Apple, defeated his opponent Hamad Medjedovic in five balanced and enormously exciting sentences in 4:46 hours.
Altmaier had to struggle particularly with the crashing serve and the dominant forehand of the Serbs. In the decisive fifth set, the 26-year-old took the serve at 2-2 at 2: 2 and no longer gave this lead. He then celebrated the match ball very dryly with a fist and a finger on his temple.
“From the head what one of my best performances this year. I just wanted to do my best and that worked,” he said after the game at the TV station “Sky”. As a reward, Altmaier now waves a second-round match with Stefanos Tsitsipas-and on top there are still a few more days in the city that never sleeps.
Osaka loosely one round further
Naomi Osaka – Greet 6: 3, 6: 4
When Naomi Osaka celebrated her last Grand Slam triumph, the world was still in the stranger of the Coronavirus. That was in 2021 at the Australian Open. It was long, long ago. Since then, the four-time Grand Slam champion has never made it beyond the third round in Melbourne, Paris, London or New York. That should finally change at the US Open this year.
The first step in this way is done. The Japanese won her opening match against Belgian Greet Minnen relatively relaxed with 6: 3 and 6: 4 and never really came into trouble. After only 1:23 hours, the first task for Osaka was done. Maybe it will actually go back to the second week for her.
De minaur confidently in the second round
Alex de Minaur – Christopher O’Connell 6: 3, 6: 4, 6: 4
Australian duel on the Grandstand: Alex de Minaur defeated his compatriot Christopher O’Connell relatively easily in three sets in the third largest place in the facility. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie – Oi, Oi, Oi. After less than two hours, the one -sided game ended and number eight on the seed list continued.
De Minaur, who was not able to get out of the quarter-finals at any Grand Slam tournament and also left in the round of the last eight last year in New York, would finally like to skip this hurdle. He did the first step there at least once.
Furious victory gains nerve battle
Laura Siegemund – Diana Shnaider 7: 6, 2: 6, 6: 3
Laura Siegemund also caused a surprise in the first round in New York after her quarter -finals in Wimbledon. In her opening match at the US Open, the Metzinger defeated Diana Shnaider favorite, at least in 20th place on the seed list, in three sets. The first round was extremely exciting and enormously competitive, in the end the phases of the victory in the tie -break kept the upper hand.
The 37-year-old, who had already proven to be able to cope with setbacks in matches in the Wimbledon, was then not able to throw off the track through a relatively one-sided second set. In the third round, which was characterized by an enormous number of breaks and finally made the game a nerve battle, she got the decisive break to 5: 3 and was then able to get her own service game with a little tremble. After the match ball, she kept her hand in front of her face, went to her box and was visibly dissolved. She follows Eva Lys in the second round at the US Open.
Lys races into the second round
Eva Lys – Francesca Jones 6: 0, 7: 5
Eva Lys is the first German in the second round of the US Open women’s competition. The Hamburg native, on Court 6 in the bright pink, really had a hurry against her competitor Francesca Jones, especially in the first set. After just 26 minutes, the 23-year-old had already won the first round 6-0. Maximum penalty for her opponent from England.
But: Jones, who was born with the rare EEC syndrome in Bradford and therefore only has four fingers on each hand, caught in the second round and then properly delivered resistance. The second sentence was extremely contested with sometimes spectacular rallies. At 6: 5 from the point of view of the Hamburg’s point of view, Lys earned the first match ball, but was unable to use him after a strong serve by the qualification. The second afterwards the game was over after 1:21 hours.
“It is an incredible joy. This feeling will certainly be a little more. Overall, I’m very satisfied today. After a 6-0, a game only starts, the second sentence is never easy. But then I remained cool, which was the most important thing,” said Lys after the game at the TV broadcaster “Sky”. In the second round she now meets Linda Noskova.