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Emma Navarro Wins the Backhand Battle Hands Down to Beat Anna Kalinskaya at the US Open
Emma Navarro vs. Anna Kalinskaya — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Emma Navarro and Anna Kalinskaya spent much of this match testing each other from the backhand side. Navarro won that battle with flying colors. The American was cleaner, more patient and far less wasteful in the exchanges that gradually shaped a 6-4, 6-2…
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Jessica Pegula Keeps Her US Open Mileage Low With Straight-Set Win Over Sorana Cirstea
Jessica Pegula vs. Sorana Cirstea — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Jessica Pegula has reached the US Open quarterfinals without spending much unnecessary time getting there. Sorana Cirstea made this one considerably less tidy than the score suggests, particularly once both women began attacking each other’s service games, but Pegula kept finding the better…
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Linda Noskova Solves the Kostyuk Cube to Turn Match-Point Agony Into US Open Victory
Linda Noskova vs. Marta Kostyuk — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Linda Noskova had already discovered how difficult Marta Kostyuk was to finish. At 5-4 in the second set, match points came and went on Noskova’s serve. Minutes later, the set was gone. At 5-4 in the decider, the same danger returned. This time…
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Aryna Sabalenka Survives an Awkward US Open Afternoon as Taylor Townsend Lets Her Chance Slip
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Taylor Townsend — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Aryna Sabalenka never really found her best tennis. Taylor Townsend never made her pay for it. That was the strange rhythm of a 6-4, 6-3 fourth-round match in which the two players rarely played well at the same time. When one settled, the…
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Madison Keys Admits Fear Took Over in Painful US Open Defeat
Madison Keys — US Open 2026 Third-Round Press Conference After Losing to Qinwen Zheng Madison Keys had already supplied the brutal visual evidence. A 5-0 lead in the deciding set had disappeared against Qinwen Zheng. What followed in the press room was more revealing than any tactical explanation could have been. “I just got really…
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Coco Gauff Finds Her Flow Against Cristina Bucsa, Then Admits She Expects to Be Upset Every Match
Coco Gauff — US Open 2026 Third-Round Press Conference After Defeating Cristina Bucsa Coco Gauff found the feeling she had been waiting for at 4-all. Not confidence exactly. Not momentum in the ordinary sense either. Something harder to manufacture. A flow state. After beating Cristina Bucsa in the third round of the US Open, Gauff…
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Iva Jovic Takes Over the Road to the US Open Final After a Three-Set Hitfest With Alexandra Eala
Iva Jovic vs. Alexandra Eala — US Open 2026 Third-Round Match Report The Road to the US Open Final has changed hands. Alexandra Eala carried it through the first two rounds. Iva Jovic now takes over after beating her doubles partner and friend 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 in a match that never once felt like an…
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US Open 2026 WTA Results, Draw, Scores & Schedule
Last updated on September 7, with the round of 16 of the women’s singles main draw halfway complete. The US Open 2026 WTA tournament centre provides women’s live scores, match results, draws, schedules and daily updates from New York. Follow every round from qualifying to the final as players compete on the outdoor hard courts…
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From Qualifier to Olympic Champion in Seven Games: Qinwen Zheng Stuns Madison Keys
Madison Keys vs. Qinwen Zheng — US Open 2026 Third-Round Match Report For five games in the deciding set, Madison Keys looked untouchable. Then she looked unable to stop anything. Keys had already blown through the opening set 6-1, and when she raced to 5-0 in the third, this match appeared finished in all but…
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Maya Joint Holds Her Nerve as Williams Sisters Let 5-0 Lead Slip at US Open
Serena Williams and Venus Williams vs. Maya Joint and Hao-ching Chan — US Open 2026 Doubles Maya Joint has already spent much of 2026 proving that famous names do not particularly bother her. She did it again on Friday night. The 20-year-old Australian and Taiwan’s Hao-ching Chan recovered from 5-0 down in the deciding 10-point…
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Emma Navarro Finally Gives the US Open Its First Big Upset With Straight-Sets Win Over Muchova
Emma Navarro vs. Karolina Muchova — US Open 2026 Third-Round Match Report For two rounds, the US Open women’s draw had stubbornly refused to fall apart. The leading seeds kept winning. The Top 8 all reached the third round. Genuine shocks were remarkably difficult to find. Then Emma Navarro beat world No. 7 Karolina Muchova…
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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 a tense tiebreak, Townsend reset almost immediately and played a…
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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 by beating No. 19 seed Jasmine Paolini 6-3, 6-3, reaching…
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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 player reaches the championship match in New York. Alexandra Eala…
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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 safely into the third round. So are Elina Svitolina, Amanda…
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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 American sounded distinctly congested during her on-court interview, but avoiding…
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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 with drop shots, moonballs, awkward forehands and anything else that…
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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 and closing the door on an Australian contingent that had…
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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 in the second. This one was even quicker. Pegula swept…
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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. 11 seed followed her 7-5, 7-5 victory over Stephens in…
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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 still trying to become the sixth after taking the opening…
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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 the match progressed, beating American qualifier Mary Stoiana 6-1, 6-2…
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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 behind her and considerably larger ambitions ahead. Yet for a…
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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 unpredictable competitors, turned a match that repeatedly appeared to be…
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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 match. She did exactly that, beating 17-year-old American wildcard Thea…
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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 to steal it 7-5. The Czech then won the first…
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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 into the second set, the New York crowd had finally…
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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 complicate the match, but every time the Canadian came under…
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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 and defeated the two-time Grand Slam singles champion 7-6(4), 6-2…
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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 hard just to stay within touching distance. Pegula kept putting…