About the only problems No. 1 seed Ash Barty and other top players encountered Thursday afternoon at the U.S. Open came in the delays trying to get to Flushing Meadows in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida’s remnants blowing through the Northeast a night earlier.
Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil is out of the U.S. Open after a 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (5) loss to Ilya Ivashka of Belarus in Thursday’s second-round action.
After the potent remnants of Hurricane Ida lashed the US Open and the north-eastern United States Wednesday night, tournament organisers will be hoping for more benign conditions Thursday for Day 4 of the year's final Grand Slam.
This time last week, Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor was resigned to missing this year’s US Open because he had been unable to secure a travel visa. On Thursday, he will play World No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the second round.