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Taylor Townsend Saves Seven Set Points, Loses the Set Anyway, Then Knocks Out Diana Shnaider
Taylor Townsend vs. Diana Shnaider — US Open 2026 Third-Round Match Report Taylor Townsend survived seven set points in one game. Then she lost the set anyway. What followed said considerably more about her night. After watching a 5-3 second-set lead disappear and eventually losing…
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At 36, Sorana Cirstea Beats Jasmine Paolini and Pushes Her Career High Even Higher
Jasmine Paolini vs. Sorana Cirstea — US Open 2026 Third-Round Match Report Sorana Cirstea is 36 years old and virtually up to No. 15 in the world. That may be the most remarkable part of her US Open. The Romanian continued an extraordinary late-career rise…
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Alexandra Eala Moves the Road Forward With a Clean Win Over Oliynykova at the US Open
Oleksandra Oliynykova vs. Alexandra Eala — US Open 2026 Second-Round Match Report The Road to the US Open Final has a clear rule. We begin with one first-round match, then follow the winner into her next match, and then do the same again until one…
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Where Are the Upsets? US Open 2026 Sends Almost All of Its Biggest Names Into Round Three
The first two rounds of a Grand Slam are supposed to thin the field. At this US Open, they have barely touched the top of it. Aryna Sabalenka, Elena Rybakina, Jessica Pegula, Coco Gauff, Mirra Andreeva, Linda Noskova, Karolina Muchova and Iga Swiatek are all…
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Coco Gauff Fights Off a Cold and Paula Badosa in a Nervy Arthur Ashe Night
Paula Badosa vs. Coco Gauff — US Open 2026 Second-Round Match Report Coco Gauff had two problems to deal with inside a lively Arthur Ashe Stadium. One was Paula Badosa. The other could be heard as soon as Gauff began speaking after the match. The…
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Five Match Points Vanish in the Pit as Madison Keys Escapes Anna Bondar
Madison Keys vs. Anna Bondar — US Open 2026 Second-Round Match Report Five match points. Anna Bondar had five of them. She had spent three sets dragging Madison Keys into exactly the kind of match the American would rather avoid, changing height, pace and rhythm…
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Taylor Townsend Adds to Australia’s US Open Misery With Preston Rout
Taylor Townsend vs. Taylah Preston — US Open 2026 Second-Round Match Report Australia arrived in New York with six women in the main draw. Now there are none. Taylor Townsend completed the wipeout by dismantling Taylah Preston 6-1, 6-1, ending the 20-year-old wildcard’s encouraging run…
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Jessica Pegula Is in a Hurry at the US Open, and Sofia Kenin Cannot Slow Her Down
Jessica Pegula vs. Sofia Kenin — US Open 2026 Second-Round Match Report Jessica Pegula has played two matches at this US Open and has yet to leave much behind for anyone else. Elena-Gabriela Ruse managed five games in the first round. Sofia Kenin managed four…
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Marta Kostyuk Stops Sloane Stephens Again as Her US Open Revival Ends in Round Two
Marta Kostyuk vs. Sloane Stephens — US Open 2026 Second-Round Match Report Sloane Stephens has spent much of 2026 climbing back toward a part of the rankings where her name looks more familiar. Marta Kostyuk has now stopped her twice in three weeks. The No.…
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Qualifying Was Only the First Test: Five US Open Qualifiers Are Already Through, Ten Are Gone
Three victories got them into the US Open. For most of the qualifiers, the fourth proved considerably harder. Of the 16 women who fought their way through qualifying, five have already won again in the main draw, 10 have been eliminated, and Francesca Jones is…
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Alexandra Eala Packs Louis Armstrong and Starts RallyHer’s Road to the US Open Final 2026
Mary Stoiana vs. Alexandra Eala — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report Louis Armstrong Stadium was packed for Alexandra Eala. We are beginning to get used to writing that. The No. 17 seed rewarded another sizeable crowd with a performance that became more commanding as…
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Coco Gauff Gives Turkey’s Rising Star One Opening, Then Closes the Door at the US Open
Zeynep Sonmez vs. Coco Gauff — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report Zeynep Sonmez could hardly have been handed a less forgiving welcome to the US Open. The Turkish No. 1 drew Cincinnati champion Coco Gauff, a player arriving in New York with a title…
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Yulia Putintseva Turns the Match Twice and Sends Belinda Bencic Out of the US Open
Yulia Putintseva vs. Belinda Bencic — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report Belinda Bencic was a set and two games up, and still could not get past Yulia Putintseva. That feels entirely appropriate for Putintseva. The 31-year-old Kazakh, one of the tour’s most expressive and…
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Elena Rybakina Gets the Win, but Thea Frodin Gives New York a Name to Remember
Thea Frodin vs. Elena Rybakina — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report Elena Rybakina was supposed to be the story. Coming off the injury that ended her Cincinnati run, the virtual World No. 1 needed to show that the ankle would withstand a Grand Slam…
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Linda Noskova Flips a 2-5 Hole Into a Landslide at the US Open
Katie Volynets vs. Linda Noskova — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report For seven games, Katie Volynets had the Wimbledon champion exactly where she wanted her. Then the match disappeared. Volynets led 5-2 in the opening set before Linda Noskova reeled off five consecutive games…
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Seven Set Points Vanish in the Night as Sofia Kenin Ends Venus Williams’ US Open Return
Venus Williams vs. Sofia Kenin — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report For a few minutes, Sofia Kenin looked as though she might be heading toward exactly the kind of unraveling that a player short on confidence fears most. Venus Williams had dragged herself back…
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Seven Break Points, No Breaks: Leylah Fernandez Shuts Zhang Out at the US Open
Zhang Shuai vs. Leylah Fernandez — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report Zhang Shuai got seven looks at Leylah Fernandez’s serve. She converted none of them. That was the quiet cruelty of Fernandez’s 6-3, 6-2 opening-round victory at the US Open. Zhang had opportunities to…
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Kamilla Rakhimova Holds Her Nerve as Krejcikova Unravels at the US Open
Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Barbora Krejcikova — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report Barbora Krejcikova hit almost three times as many winners as Kamilla Rakhimova. She also hit herself out of the US Open. Rakhimova absorbed the Czech’s heavier ball, stayed steadier when the match tightened…
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Jessica Pegula Starts the US Open by Making Ruse Work for Everything
Jessica Pegula vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report Jessica Pegula did not overwhelm Elena-Gabriela Ruse with one spectacular weapon. She did something considerably more suffocating. For much of their first-round match at the US Open, the Romanian had to work extraordinarily…
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Chris Evert vs. Martina Navratilova: Every Match of the Greatest Rivalry in Women’s Tennis
From their first meeting in 1973 to their 80th and final clash in 1988, RallyHer revisits every match between Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova — the rivalry that changed women’s tennis. Evert vs. Navratilova Head-to-Head at a Glance Few rivalries in tennis history lasted as…
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Diane Parry Defies the Numbers to Beat Elise Mertens for First WTA Title
Diane Parry vs. Elise Mertens — Monterrey Open 2026 Final Match Report Diane Parry picked quite a place to win her first WTA singles title. The 23-year-old from Nice, a former junior world No. 1 whose one-handed backhand has long made her one of the…