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Coco Gauff Shows the Present, Iva Jovic the Future in High-Quality US Open Battle
Coco Gauff vs. Iva Jovic — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report American tennis had reasons to feel good on both sides of the net. Coco Gauff produced one of her most complete performances of this US Open to beat Iva Jovic 6-1, 6-4 and reach the quarterfinals. The score, particularly in the opening set,…
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Elena Rybakina Leaves Naomi Osaka With Nowhere to Go and Moves One Win From World No. 1
Naomi Osaka vs. Elena Rybakina — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Naomi Osaka was present for this one. For long stretches, that was about as much influence as Elena Rybakina allowed her. Rybakina produced one of her most complete performances of the tournament to win 6-1, 6-4, serving superbly, striking her backhand with its…
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Mirra Andreeva Finally Breaks Through at the US Open as Potapova’s Injury Brings a Sad Finish
Mirra Andreeva vs. Anastasia Potapova — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Mirra Andreeva has finally pushed beyond the barrier that had stopped her in New York every year. But the moment came with an uncomfortable ending. Andreeva recovered from a set down to beat Anastasia Potapova 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, reaching her first US Open…
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Queen Zheng Is Back: Again From 0-5 Down to the US Open Quarterfinals as Swiatek Unravels
Iga Swiatek vs. Qinwen Zheng — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Qinwen Zheng has now done it twice at this US Open. Against Madison Keys, she came back from 0-5 in the deciding set. Against Iga Swiatek, she did it again from 0-5 in the opening set. This time there was no third set…
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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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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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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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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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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…
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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 more distinctive players on tour, had never won a WTA…