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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…
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The Mexican Crowd Wanted More Tennis, and Elise Mertens Gave Them Exactly That in Monterrey
Nikola Bartunkova vs. Elise Mertens — Monterrey Open 2026 Semifinal Match Report At 4-2 in the second set, Nikola Bartunkova had five separate game points to move within one game of the Monterrey final. Elise Mertens refused every invitation to leave. The 20-year-old Czech, whose drop shots had repeatedly pulled Mertens apart, kept creating chances.…
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Diane Parry Saves Three Set Points, Sends Clara Tauson Out and Breaks New Ground in Monterrey
Clara Tauson vs. Diane Parry — Monterrey Open 2026 Quarterfinal Match Report Clara Tauson was three points from forcing a deciding set. Diane Parry never gave her one. From 3-5 down in the second set, the Frenchwoman erased three set points, swept the final four games and completed a 6-3, 7-5 victory in 1 hour…
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Coco Gauff Wins First WTA Title of 2026 With Commanding Cincinnati Victory Over Jessica Pegula
Coco Gauff vs. Jessica Pegula — Cincinnati 2026 Final Match Report Coco Gauff saved her most convincing Cincinnati performance for the match that mattered most. The American swept aside Jessica Pegula 6-2, 6-4 in just one hour and 15 minutes to win the Cincinnati Open, claiming her first WTA title of 2026 and a second…
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Coco Gauff Shows Cincinnati the ‘Right Coco’ Again as Sara Bejlek’s Run Finally Overheats
Sara Bejlek vs. Coco Gauff — Cincinnati 2026 SF Match Report Someone in the Cincinnati crowd had already declared they were “in love with the Coco.” Gauff laughed at the comment earlier in the tournament before adding: “And it’s the right Coco!” Against Sara Bejlek, she made a persuasive case. Gauff ended the 20-year-old Czech’s…
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Jessica Pegula Finds Clarity in a Scrappy Cincinnati Semi-Final to Beat Iga Swiatek
Jessica Pegula vs. Iga Swiatek — Cincinnati 2026 SF Match Report Thirty break points. Read that again. Thirty. For long stretches, Jessica Pegula and Iga Swiatek produced a Cincinnati semi-final that was less about sustained brilliance than about surviving service games, wrestling back momentum and trying to establish any kind of rhythm. It was scrappy…
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Coco Gauff Turns Attacker to Dismantle Marta Kostyuk in Cincinnati
Coco Gauff vs. Marta Kostyuk — Cincinnati 2026 QF Match Report Coco Gauff is usually praised for the points she refuses to lose. Against Marta Kostyuk, it was how often she went out and won them herself that stood out. Gauff dismantled the Ukrainian 6-2, 6-2 in just one hour and 11 minutes to reach…
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Sara Bejlek Does It Again, Stuns Madison Keys and Solves Cincinnati Puzzle the Czech Way
Sara Bejlek vs. Madison Keys — Cincinnati 2026 QF Match Report Sara Bejlek has apparently decided that beating one of the biggest names in Cincinnati is not enough. After stunning World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, the 20-year-old Czech did it again, recovering from a set down to defeat Madison Keys 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(5) and reach…
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Elena Rybakina’s World No. 1 Dream Ends in Despair After Cincinnati Injury Against Iga Swiatek
Iga Swiatek vs. Elena Rybakina — Cincinnati 2026 QF Match Report Cincinnati had offered Elena Rybakina a route towards World No. 1. Twenty-eight minutes later, the conversation had shifted from rankings to whether she will even be ready for the US Open. Rybakina was forced to retire while trailing Iga Swiatek 4-1 in their Cincinnati…
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Jessica Pegula Proves Amanda Anisimova’s Kryptonite Again in Cincinnati Thriller
Amanda Anisimova vs. Jessica Pegula — Cincinnati 2026 QF Match Report Jessica Pegula won 96 points. Amanda Anisimova won 95. The numbers showed how little separated them over two hours and nine minutes. What mattered was where those points fell: Pegula took the deciding tiebreak to seal a 6-4, 2-6, 7-6(4) victory and a place…
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Sara Bejlek Stuns Aryna Sabalenka After Two Cincinnati Collapses and Earns More Than a Cold Handshake
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Sara Bejlek — Cincinnati 2026 R16 Match Report Aryna Sabalenka had the first set in her hands. Then she had the second set in her hands. Somehow, she lost both. Sara Bejlek produced the biggest win of her career by defeating the World No. 1 7-6(7), 6-4 in Cincinnati, overturning a 1-5…
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Amanda Anisimova Blasts Past Linda Noskova to Reach Cincinnati Quarterfinals
Linda Noskova vs. Amanda Anisimova — Cincinnati 2026 R16 Match Report Amanda Anisimova did not leave much room for the close contest Cincinnati had been promised. The American dismantled Linda Noskova’s resistance with one of her cleanest displays of the tournament, winning 6-1, 6-4 in just one hour and 11 minutes to reach the Cincinnati…
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Marta Kostyuk Turns Mirra Andreeva Meltdown Into Cincinnati Quarterfinal Run
Marta Kostyuk vs. Mirra Andreeva — Cincinnati 2026 R16 Match Report Mirra Andreeva appeared to have Cincinnati under control. Thirty-eight minutes later, the match had become something entirely different. Marta Kostyuk recovered from losing the opening set to overwhelm the fifth seed 4-6, 6-0, 6-2, turning what began as another smooth hard-court performance from Andreeva…
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Iga Swiatek Finds Another Gear to Sweep Aside Diane Parry in Cincinnati
Iga Swiatek vs. Diane Parry — Cincinnati 2026 R16 Match Report Iga Swiatek gave Diane Parry an early opening in Cincinnati. She did not give her many more. The seventh seed recovered from dropping serve in the opening game and steadily imposed herself on the Frenchwoman, winning 12 of the next 17 games for a…
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Marie Bouzkova Denies Iva Jovic Twice Before Winning Cincinnati Tiebreak Battle
Marie Bouzkova vs. Iva Jovic — Cincinnati 2026 R32 Match Report Marie Bouzkova spent much of Wednesday’s Cincinnati third-round match trying to stop Iva Jovic from taking control. Twice the American reached a position from which she could serve out a set. Twice Bouzkova refused to let her. The Czech No. 22 seed turned those…
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Coco Gauff Escapes Ann Li’s Second-Set Push in Cincinnati After a Match That Nearly Turned
Coco Gauff vs. Ann Li— Cincinnati 2026 R32 Match Report Ann Li was two points from taking Coco Gauff into a deciding set. Then the match tightened around her. Li, the 25-year-old American from King of Prussia, has spent years building toward the kind of result she nearly found in Cincinnati. A 2017 Wimbledon girls’…
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Madison Keys Breaks Katerina Siniakova Four Times to Reach the Cincinnati Round of 16
Madison Keys vs. Katerina Siniakova — Cincinnati 2026 R32 Match Report Both Madison Keys and Katerina Siniakova arrived in Cincinnati carrying the same uncomfortable memory: a first-round exit at last year’s US Open. For Keys, the 31-year-old former major champion, this week has doubled as the start of a North American swing she needs to…
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Jessica Pegula Turns a Tight Set Into a Rout to Beat Emma Navarro in Cincinnati
Jessica Pegula vs. Emma Navarro — Cincinnati 2026 R32 Match Report Jessica Pegula didn’t need to be spectacular in Cincinnati. She needed to be steady, and steady turned out to be more than enough against an Emma Navarro who couldn’t find consistency on her own serve for more than a few games at a stretch.…