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Talia Gibson ’s singles campaign ended in a three-set loss to Donna Vekić, but the Australian is back on court Friday with Ekaterina Alexandrova and a chance to turn a frustrating exit into useful Grand Slam work.
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Talia Gibson ’s singles campaign ended in a three-set loss to Donna Vekić, but the Australian is back on court Friday with Ekaterina Alexandrova and a chance to turn a frustrating exit into useful Grand Slam work.
Daria Kasatkina ’s singles campaign ended against Paula Badosa, but her US Open week continues on Friday with Yuliia Starodubtseva — a quick shift from solving a baseline problem alone to building points in a new part...
Kimberly Birrell has kept her US Open week alive in doubles, recovering alongside Peyton Stearns from a slow start to defeat Ena Shibahara and Lanlana Tararudee in three sets.
Storm Hunter ’s first-round win with Desirae Krawczyk has made Australia’s women’s doubles strength visible again: not as a consolation prize, but as a parallel Grand Slam pathway with its own stakes.
Alex de Minaur ’s US Open campaign has ended with a straight-sets loss to world No.70 Botic van de Zandschulp, turning a favourable draw and a top-six seeding into another early Grand Slam disappointment.
Tristan Schoolkate ’s four-set US Open loss to world No.6 Flavio Cobolli was not a breakthrough in the scoreboard sense. It was something more useful: a clear measure of how much ground the Australian has closed, and ...
Dane Sweeny ’s first Grand Slam third round is more than an upset. It is the clearest sign yet that his rapid 2026 rise is beginning to translate from the Challenger level into sustained ATP relevance.
Talia Gibson ’s three-set loss to Donna Vekić in New York did not erase the more useful pattern in her 2026 season: her best tennis has returned on hard courts, where her first-strike game has more time and space to i...
James Duckworth ’s run ends with a straight-sets loss to Yibing Wu, but the sharper lesson is tactical: once his first-strike serve pattern stopped creating cheap points, he had no return pressure to keep the match al...
Alexei Popyrin has earned the chance to turn his first Grand Slam win of 2026 into a deeper US Open run, but Alejandro Tabilo presents a more structured challenge than the draw’s opening round.
Alex de Minaur completed his interrupted opening assignment in efficient fashion, but the No. 6 seed now has to convert that clean start into another performance against Botic van de Zandschulp less than 24 hours later.
Rain has postponed Alex de Minaur ’s opening-round meeting with qualifier Andrea Guerrieri, turning an expected formality into an early test of preparation, patience and first-strike discipline.
Thanasi Kokkinakis ’ withdrawal from the US Open has not simply removed a first-round match from his schedule. It has consumed another protected-ranking opportunity while leaving his competitive comeback suspended bet...
Three straight US Open second-round appearances have changed the meaning of Tristan Schoolkate ’s qualifying runs. They are no longer about getting into the draw — they are about staying there, winning there and forci...
Dane Sweeny has reached the US Open second round for the first time, turning a wild-card opportunity into a win over Corentin Moutet and a meeting with 13th seed Lorenzo Musetti.
The US Open win over Alycia Parks matters beyond the scoreline: Taylah Preston is showing why Australian women’s wildcards are increasingly being treated as competitive opportunities, not ceremonial entries.
The Australian’s three-set defeat of Liudmila Samsonova was more than a passage into the US Open second round: it was a measured response to a difficult opening set and another sign that her 2026 season is recovering ...
Kimberly Birrell ’s first US Open victory is more than a long-delayed second-round appearance. It confirms a season in which the Australian has begun converting difficult opportunities into ranking momentum.
Alexei Popyrin arrived in New York under a cloud of qualification questions and wildcard framing. He left his first-round court with a more useful statement: when his serve and forehand set the terms, he can still mak...
Aleksandar Vukic pushed Rei Sakamoto through nearly three and a half hours at Flushing Meadows, but the Australian’s first-round defeat underlined how much harder major chances are becoming to convert.
James Duckworth ’s 5-7, 6-3, 6-2, 7-6(8) win over No.30 seed Matteo Arnaldi was less about the upset label than the tactical adjustment that made it possible. Two days after retiring in Winston-Salem, the Australian a...
Against fellow former top-10 player Paula Badosa, Daria Kasatkina begins her New York campaign with a test that reaches beyond the draw: can her all-court intelligence still turn a high-level hard-court match into a p...
Ajla Tomljanovic was listed for direct entry to the 2026 US Open. By August 31, she is instead watching from the sidelines after ending her season early, with a series of minor injuries outweighing the value of anothe...
Maya Joint begins her 2026 US Open campaign against Liudmila Samsonova on Tuesday, with their recent Toronto battle offering a useful measure of how far the Australian’s hard-court game has travelled.