U.S. Open

There are 63 other matches on opening day, but they have been relegated to the background as Williams prepares to play what could be her final singles ...

Open final](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/sports/serena-osaka-us-open-penalty.html) in a match where Williams was penalized a game after a series of code violations by chair umpire Carlos Ramos. “I think it’s great that we have somebody like that in our sport who cleared the path and showed us that you can do anything,” she said. “I was really scared: Dang, when is the last time she’s going to play? “Basically she was everywhere, because she always won and was somewhere in the semifinals or the finals. Open men’s champion](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/sports/tennis/us-open-mens-final-zverev-thiem.html), will return to the tournament after missing last year’s Open with a serious wrist injury. Stories like this are possible because of our deep commitment to original reporting, produced by a global staff of over 1,700 journalists who have all dedicated themselves to helping you understand the world. “I watch her my whole life,” Swiatek, the 21-year-old Polish star, said of the 40-year-old Williams. But they are all relegated to the background for now as Williams, one of the greatest athletes of any generation, prepares to play what could be her final singles match on Monday night in the first round against the unseeded Danka Kovinic. 10 seed and top-ranked American who is himself the son of former top 10 women’s player Kathy May. Until this year, no Chinese man had qualified to play in the U.S. Open, Swiatek had another priority: finally working up the courage to meet Serena Williams, a formidable champion whom Swiatek said made her feel like “a kid from kindergarten just looking at her.” 1 for the first time this year at the U.S.

When the US Open tennis tournament begins this week in New York's Flushing Meadows, expect handshakes both on the court and on the sidelines.

Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis meet in a blockbuster opening-round clash while Daniil Medvedev begins his title defence on Day 1 at the US Open in New ...

[Nikoloz Basilashvili](https://www.atptour.com/en/players/nikoloz-basilashvili/bg23/overview) on Court 13. [View Singles Draw](https://www.atptour.com/en/scores/current/us-open/560/draws?matchType=Singles) [Arthur Ashe](https://www.atptour.com/en/players/arthur-ashe/a063/overview) Stadium, where 23rd seed Kyrgios will hope to maintain his strong form at the majors after reaching his maiden Grand Slam final at [Wimbledon](https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/wimbledon/540/overview) in July. [Arthur Ashe](https://www.atptour.com/en/players/arthur-ashe/a063/overview) Stadium for the first time since clinching his maiden Grand Slam crown there a year ago. [US Open](https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/us-open/560/overview) action kicks off Monday with a host of big names seeking a strong start at the fourth and final Grand Slam of the year. The fourth seed is yet to make it past the third round in four main draw appearances in New York, but he has already found his winning groove on the hard courts of North American this summer with a run to the championship match at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati two weeks ago. The 2012, 2016, and 2020 champions, respectively, they nonetheless face tricky opening duels as they bid to kick-start another successful fortnight at Flushing Meadows. [Stefanos Tsitsipas](https://www.atptour.com/en/players/stefanos-tsitsipas/te51/overview) run at the [US Open](https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/us-open/560/overview)? Medvedev has a story of his own with the New York fans, however, appearing to have won them over with a combination of blistering on-court performances and dry wit in interviews after a rocky start. 111 who will be looking to channel the support of his home crown on his [US Open](https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/us-open/560/overview) main draw debut. "I feel like in New York I have a special relationship with the crowd," he said in his pre-tournament press conference. Both players have already enjoyed hard-court success in 2022 — Kokkinakis claimed his first ATP Tour title in Adelaide in January, while Kyrgios lifted his seventh tour-level trophy in Washington, D.C.

USOpen.org previews Day 1 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, with men's and women's singles play springing into action at Flushing Meadows. 1.

The transcendent and transformative star of women's tennis faces Danka Kovinic Monday night in her opening match of the U.S. Open.

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New York (AP) -- The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local):. ___. 2 p.m.. Andy Murray has reached the second round of the U.S. Open ...

The Scot powered into the second round with a comfortable 7-5 6-3 6-3 win over Argentine Francisco Cerundolo. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The 26-year-old scored three straight breaks to lead 5-0 in the third and then held to seal victory. The Russian held for the first set and took control of the contest in the second, breaking for a 5-4 lead and closing out on serve. “I was happy to get my revenge today,” Medvedev added.

NEW YORK : It's rare that a world number one and defending champion is the warm up act at the U.S. Open but that was the case on Monday as Daniil Medvedev ...

Open in comparison to day one last year,” Adam Budelli, spokesperson for StubHub told Reuters in an email. Open would be where the 23-times Grand Slam winner would take her final bow. NEW YORK : It's rare that a world number one and defending champion is the warm up act at the U.S.

Elite tennis expert Sean Calvert has released U.S. Open 2022 picks, predictions, and best bets.

[Visit SportsLine now to see Calvert's bets for the 2022 U.S. So who wins the 2022 U.S. [He's only sharing his analysis, and all of his U.S. That brings his record-setting total to 22 grand slam wins, and Nadal has the second-best odds to claim his fifth U.S. And which enormous longshots could take the crown? Nadal was forced to withdraw from Wimbledon prior to the semifinals due to an abdominal issue, and he has played only one match since that occurred. The absence of Novak Djokovic is a headline-making story at the 2022 U.S. Nadal is enjoying a fantastic year, winning a pair of grand slam titles at the Australian Open and French Open. In 2019, Calvert took down a huge score on Dominic Thiem winning Indian Wells at 80-1. However, Medvedev is the betting favorite at +225 (risk $100 to win $225), followed by Carlos Alcaraz at +500. Open picks on the men's side, Open odds at Caesars Sportsbook.

World number one Daniil Medvedev opened his U.S. Open title defence by walloping American Stefan Kozlov 6-2 6-4 6-0 in sweltering conditions on Arthur Ashe ...

Kozlov was no match for Medvedev's raw power in the second set. "Most pleased to win first of all... Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local): ___ 12:20 p.m..

The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion faces Danka Kovinic. Open has begun with far more buzz than usual for Day 1. Djokovic, who is from Serbia, was not able to travel to the U.S. A small group of demonstrators chanting “Novak! Murray beat No. Andy Murray has reached the second round of the U.S. Open main draw since the open era began in 1968. He had played his way into the field through the qualifying tournament, joining countryman and fellow qualifier Zhang Zhizhen as the first Chinese men in the U.S. Open throughout her career. 7 seed Simona Halep 6-2, 0-6, 6-4 in the first round of the U.S. ___ Open tennis tournament (all times local):

Medvedev was the +260 favorite at BetMGM to defend the men's title ahead of Spaniards Rafael Nadal (+400) and Carlos Alcaraz (+550). Medvedev claimed his first ...

She's ahead of Serena Williams, the sentimental favorite as she plays what is expected to be the final tournament of her career. Nadal is the third-biggest liability as the 36-year-old chases his 23rd Grand Slam title and third of the year after also winning the French Open for a 14th time. He has risen to No 1 in the world despite missing two months following hernia surgery. That makes Medvedev the second-biggest liability in the men's draw behind Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios. He has had a rollercoaster 2022 since falling to Nadal in the Australian Open final. Medvedev claimed his first career Grand Slam title at last year's US Open, where he denied Novak Djokovic from winning the "Calendar Slam".

The talk of tennis — and beyond — for most of the past three weeks has been about Serena Williams and her announcement that she is planning to stop playing ...

[The Williams sisters will play](/article/us-open-tennis-championships-sports-venus-williams-linda-noskova-487931964b93124f81b9bef71e10fa14) the Czech pair of Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova in the first round. [she is “honored”](/article/novak-djokovic-rafael-nadal-us-open-tennis-championships-serena-williams-sports-3d3da787ba6619eea1afdf929ab4f4fc) to be facing Williams under the bright lights of Ashe. Kovinic is only 2-4 at the U.S. [balancing family and career](/article/serena-williams-motherhood-c7b902fcbd8f8586e75fa266e0680cfb) when Williams made her announcement. [accepted a wild card](/article/us-open-tennis-championships-sports-new-york-venus-williams-ab65d8dfc1c8b2e204a859787295a417) into the women’s doubles tournament. She hadn’t won a singles match since the 2021 French Open. She has reached at least the semifinals in her last 11 appearances. Raised in Compton, California, she learned tennis on the public courts that are far from the privileged private clubs that nurtured most U.S. The Associated Press has chronicled the leadup to her departure in words and photos since her revelation earlier this month that she is preparing to “evolve” away from her career as a professional athlete. [essay in Vogue magazine](/article/serena-williams-retirement-plans-f1cf0c3c2f709e35e2e6221f2cc34e72) that was published Aug. She didn’t give a timeline and didn’t even say she was retiring, but that she was “evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me.” Her greatest success came at the U.S.

Serena Williams begins what is probably her final U.S. Open with a first-round match against Danka Kovinic. Follow along for the latest updates.

… I’m just beginning." I would have to wait until it gets light. Sometimes I wake up at like 6:00 in the morning to go practice and it was too dark. “I once heard Althea Gibson, one of her best friends told me she wanted to see another African American win a Slam before her time is up. Sept. Open 10 times and won the title six times, in 1999, 2002, 2008, 2012-14.

The 23-time Grand Slam champion will start her farewell tour of Flushing Meadows with a first-round match against Danka Kovinic of Montenegro.

She has never made it past the third round of a Grand Slam tournament and has never made it past the second round at the U.S. [set to play Danka Kovinic](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/sports/tennis/us-open-draw-serena-williams.html) in the first round of the tournament Monday, with her match scheduled for 7 p.m. As of Monday, tickets to see Williams play her first — and potentially last — singles match at the U.S. Afterward, a large crowd of fans watched as she exited the tennis center complex in a black sport utility vehicle. “I can’t think of a moment for her in her career in her life that she settled for less.” In addition to the singles draw, Williams will play women’s doubles with her sister, Venus. She has not ruled out playing more beyond New York, but it seems unlikely, particularly with her lining up to play doubles with her sister Venus for the first time at the U.S. “I think it was the best match in my career.” Simona Halep, a two-time Grand Slam singles champion and a semifinalist at Wimbledon last month, had the stumble of the day. Many fans who don’t have a ticket for Ashe just want a taste of the atmosphere of Serena Williams’s first match of the U.S. With apologies to the other 126 players who took to the courts at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Day 1 of the U.S. She did a quick change in the locker room and emerged into the quiet hallway, where one of her trainers was waiting.

Simona Halep has been knocked out of the US Open in the first round, losing 6-2 0-6 6-4 to qualifier Daria Snigur in a huge upset on Louis Armstrong ...

I want to say thanks to Simona for a such a great match, it was a great experience for me - it’s impossible to play against Simona and win! US Open 124, as her dreams of claiming a third Grand Slam single’s title unexpectedly went up in smoke.

Serena William put off the end of her career for at least another match when she knocked off Danka Kovinic of Montenegro, 6-3, 6-3, to advance to the second ...

“Also, I love it because it keeps you fit so that’s a bonus.” In general, either way, everything that she's done, I'm sure it's going to be an emotional night for everyone, for everything she's done on and off the court, I think you can't put into words. “We’re laying it all out here [in doubles],” Serena said. “And Venus as well. A capacity crowd of 23,800 in Arthur Ashe Stadium — including Serena’s 4 1/2 year old daughter Olympia, who wore a sparkling black dress just like her mother, and former President Bill Clinton — was on hand for the event, with courtside seats going for upwards of $5,800. It was reminiscent of “One Shining Moment” played after the NCAA championship game every year. “The crowd was crazy. Beforehand, a video montage played honoring Serena and other past champions. After Serena earlier this month announced her impending retirement in a Vogue story, more than 30,000 U.S. Now the question is: Can Serena make a Jimmy Connors-type run in Flushing Meadows? Open in what is expected to be her final tournament. Her trademark serve and movement looked much better than they had in any of her previous matches this year, which bodes well going forward.

Serena Williams' likely final trip to the US Open begins with a first-round matchup against Danka Kovinic. With Williams presumably set to retire following ...

Williams will now move on to face Anett Kontaveit in the second round. On top of gunning for her seventh US Open title in women's singles, Williams will also be playing with her sister, Venus, in the doubles tournament. In the second set, Williams found more of a rhythm with her serve. It wasn't easy, but Williams felt like now was the best time to move onto other things. With a semifinals appearance in her last 11 appearances at Flushing Meadows, Williams has plenty of experience on her side. Williams closes it out with a dominant effort in the final game.

A steamy night in New York was weighted down with a ton of pre-match pomp and circumstance. But the champion pushed through and will play on.

She lost three games in a row to trail by 3-2 in the first set, uptight and short arming the ball. Williams simply hadn’t worked as hard at the game in the past couple of years as she once had, splitting her court time with mothering a 4-year-old daughter, and nurturing venture capital investments. Clearly, at some point in the past few weeks, Williams decided she wanted this match to be more than just a ceremony, and a terrible goodbye. “I have to go sweat in the sun every day when I could be at the pool with some lemonade.” She came out of the Arthur Ashe Stadium tunnel Monday night for the last big occasion of her career in a mock black evening-gown complete with cape and train — but she had on the black shoes of a boxer. “I’m terrible at goodbyes, the world’s worst.” Her tennis was guttural, louder than all of it, and the appreciative roars built from the crowd. “I’m out there to win a match.” “The atmosphere was a lot,” she said later. Williams has always had a special affinity for the Open — not just for the high hard bounces of its acrylic courts, but for everything else that’s hard about it. It was all so much: the ceremonial entrance, the blazing stadium lights and the weighty tributes to the all-time great made her seem prematurely a monument rather than a person. Still, maybe she could find the old inner vibration, the competitive rage that powered her to 23 Grand Slam titles.

Serena Williams overcame Danka Kovinic in a straight-sets victory to continue on in the US Open; the 40-year-old American has remained vague about when she ...

"I feel grateful that I can have that impact. I never thought I would have that impact, ever. I think it's important because there's so many other things that I want to do." "It was loud and I could feel it in my chest. "I just am so grateful that they see that. That's a tough feeling to have, and to leave knowing, the more you do it, the more you can shine.

At least one viewer watching at home thought they spotted Beyoncé in the star-studded stands at Serena Williams' U.S. Open match Sunday night.

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New York (AP) -- The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local):. ___. 1 p.m.. Serena Williams will be back under the lights in Arthur Ashe ...

Rafael Nadal opens his bid for a 23rd Grand Slam title at the US Open on Tuesday as world number one Iga Swiatek and defending champion Emma Raducanu ...

"New York is kind of always alive. You just feel a bit out of it," she said. The match, I try my best without putting all the effort there on the serve," Nadal said. "It's just one of those weird days where you feel a bit like nothing... But, you know, the tournament is great. "I wouldn't choose it as a place to live because I'm more of a person that needs a calm place with the proper environment to rest," Swiatek said on the eve of the tournament.

NEW YORK (AFP) - World number one Iga Swiatek breezed into the second of the US Open on Tuesday (Aug 30) with a straight sets victory over Italy's Jasmine ...

“I take it very easy in the Cincinnati, too, in the practices. “I hope to be ready for the action. “Nobody wants to see a match end like this. Now ranked 1,504 in the world and without a win in just the three matches she has played in 2022, the American faces Alison van Uytvanck. Former world number one Osaka, the champion in New York in 2018 and 2020, is on a three-match losing streak in the US hard court season. “We’ll see if I’m going to hold on to that.”

NEW YORK: Third seed Carlos Alcaraz reached the second round of the US Open on Tuesday (Aug 30) after an injury forced his Argentine opponent Sebastian Baez ...

"One year later, being four in the world is something special for me." "Sebastian is a great player, he fights until the last ball." Baez had a physio tend to his left leg before the third set but was unable to carry on, pulling up short and clutching his thigh as Alcaraz knocked a forehand winner across the net in the second game.

New York (AP) -- The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local):. ___. 1 p.m.. Serena Williams will be back under the lights in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Wednesday. Williams will play the leadoff match of the night session in the main ...

Iga Świątek crushed Italy's Jasmine Paolini 6-3 6-0 to reach the second round of the US Open. The Polish star is chasing a third grand slam title, ...

The Polish player was very unsuccessful in the first balls and she was losing 2-7. Then she won six balls in a row and was leading. Magda Linette was less lucky and she lost to Czech Karolina Pliskova 6-2, 4-6, 7-6.

Iga Swiatek crushed Italy's Jasmine Paolini 6-3 6-0 on Tuesday to set up a highly-anticipated second-round showdown with 2017 champion Sloane Stephens at ...

"I feel like my level is just better. In the first set I played pretty solid, but I needed to take it up to another level. But her sheen of invincibility began to crack at U.S. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com "I'm trying to enjoy that.

The Williams sisters are also playing doubles and will play their first match Thursday. They have won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles during their careers, most ...

“She’s a legend, she won so many Grand Slams so I knew she would raise her level and take the energy of the crowd,” Van Uytvanck said. “So Venus, of course, as always very low-key, Venus will probably finish the last match and be like, yeah, by the way, that's it. “I think that it would very much surprise me if Venus Williams doesn't retire as well at the U.S. Will we see Venus Williams back on the singles court at the U.S. “It'll be interesting to see what Venus does now because I just can't see one playing without the other,” Stubbs added. A winner of 49 singles titles, including seven Grand Slam crowns, Venus won the U.S. But after Van Uytvanck hit a crosscourt winner in the tiebreak to earn a match point, the Belgian closed it out with a volley winner. Williams quickly walked off the court. That's what matters most is to do things on her own terms. It was just the second time she has lost in the first round of her home Slam. Playing in her 23rd U.S. Open, her older sister Venus could not follow suit with a victory.

NEW YORK : Serena Williams faces a busy schedule in her Flushing Meadows farewell as she takes on second-seed Anett Kontaveit on Wednesday and brings her ...

"I feel like it's been very important for her to be a part of this. The pair have never played before. They lost in the quarter-final of their last U.S.

There will be a new champion at the U.S. Open this year. Defending champion Emma Raducanu lost to Alize Cornet of France in the first round.

Now when I have to serve for the match, I try to stay in the moment. 13 Jelena Ostapenko in the second round at the French Open and No. 15 Simona Halep in the fourth round at the Australian Open. I think about what I have to do. 1 Iga Swiatek in the third round at Wimbledon, No. “I guess I’m getting old, I’m getting more mature.

An average of 2.7 million people in the US tuned in to ESPN on Monday night to watch what could have been the last singles match of Serena Williams's ...

Fortunately for the network -- and tennis fans -- the 23-time Grand Slam champion prevailed in the first round at the US Open, The audience was the biggest ever for the first day of the tournament, according to ESPN. An average of 2.7 million people in the US tuned in to ESPN on Monday night to watch what could have been the last singles match of Serena Williams’s decorated tennis career.

Raducanu, who won the U.S. Open women's singles title as a qualifier without dropping a set last year, fell to Alizé Cornet in straight sets.

Cornet pushed the set to 3-2 with a backhand winner, and she then tied the set at three games apiece without giving up any points. Open is Cornet’s 63rd consecutive appearance in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, While the U.S. Cornet went on to take the set, 6-3, with a forehand winner. The match would have been significant for Cornet even if she had lost. “In a way the target will be off my back slightly. Cornet achieved the best Grand Slam result of her career earlier this year at the Australian Open, where she reached the quarterfinals [before losing to Danielle Collins](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/sports/tennis/collins-australian-open.html), who went on to [reach the final.](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/29/sports/tennis/barty-collins-australian-open.html) The crowd responded with several people yelling “c’mon, Emma.” Cornet and Raducanu stepped into a breezy Louis Armstrong Stadium on Tuesday as the American flag hanging above the court moved swiftly from the start of the match through the end. The match got off to a close start, with each player splitting the first six games. “I’m sorry I beat her tonight but I’m really happy with my performance,” Cornet said on the court after the match. 1 Iga Swiatek](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/02/sports/tennis/swiatek-cornet-wimbledon.html) in straight sets in the third round of Wimbledon.

As the tough, intense first set between Alizé Cornet and Emma Raducanu arrived at its decisive moment, with Cornet serving at 5-3, the Briton did everything ...

Over the summer, as the US Open drew closer, Raducanu acknowledged the possibility that she could lose the 2,040 points she gained in 2021. She is a better tennis player than Raducanu at this moment in time, something that was reflected in the result. Then Raducanu pieced together her cleanest stretch of ball striking and nailed a winning backhand down the line to break for 3-1. She finally reached her first grand slam quarter-final in emotional scenes at the Australian Open and she has beaten Iga Swiatek, Simona Halep, Garbiñe Muguruza and Jelena Ostapenko in majors this year. Cornet, the world No 40, is not only one of the highest ranked players to miss out on a top 32 seeding, she is also enjoying the best grand slam year of her career. In challenging, windy conditions, Raducanu received her most brutal reality check yet as her US Open title defence ended at the first hurdle in a 6-3, 6-3 loss.

Second seed Rafael Nadal overcame an early scare to down 21-year-old Australian wildcard Rinky Hijikata 4-6 6-2 6-3 6-3 Tuesday in his first appearance at ...

"Long wait - for some time I thought that maybe I will not be able to be back," Nadal said in an on-court interview after the match. Open after winning in 2019. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

NEW YORK: Emma Raducanu, who made a dream run to the US Open title last year, suffered a nightmare 6-3 6-3 first round loss to Frenchwoman Alize Cornet on ...

But the Briton would answer with a break of her own and a second to go up 3-1. The two players would trade breaks a second time before Cornet would break the young Briton a third time to get in front 5-3 and hold serve to secure the 1-0 lead. Raducanu captivated the sporting world when she became the first qualifier to claim a Grand Slam title, winning 10 matches in New York without dropping a set, catapulting her career into the stratosphere and making her one of the most marketable athletes on the planet.