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Gabriel Diallo’s first Grand Slam as a seeded player was cut short.
Gabriel Diallo’s first Grand Slam as a seeded player was cut short.
NEW YORK — Carlos Alcaraz’s accidental buzz cut is moving on at the US Open thanks to an easy-as-can-be victory in the second round Wednesday night, a year after he lost at that stage in the Grand Slam tournament.
Daniil Medvedev was fined a total of $42,500 by the US Open on Wednesday — more than a third of his $110,000 tournament prize money — for his meltdown during a first-round loss after a photographer wandered onto the court during the match.
US Open opponents Taylor Townsend and Jelena Ostapenko got into a face-to-face argument on the Court 11 sideline right after Townsend won their second-round match 7-5, 6-1 on Wednesday.
For the second contest in a row at this US Open, Novak Djokovic appeared a bit sluggish, a bit off, for a stretch. This time, he even dropped the opening set. And then, as always at Flushing Meadows, the 24-time Grand Slam champion progressed to the third round.
Jack Draper, a U.S. Open semifinalist in 2024 and the No. 5 seed this year, withdrew from the tournament Wednesday with an injury.
Coco Gauff wishes she weren’t trying out a new service motion in what she called “the high-stress situation” of the US Open.