Stephens capitulates at US Open, sending Burel into second round
Clara Burel edged out Sloane Stephens 0-6, 7-5, 7-5 on Monday night. She’ll play Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, the No 20 seed, in the next round
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Frenchwoman Clara Burel edged out American Sloane Stephens 0-6, 7-5, 7-5 to reach the second round of the US Open in New York on Monday night.
Burel lost the first nine games inside 33 minutes, coming back from 6-0, 3-0 down to defeat Stephens. Stephens served for the match on two occasions, in the second and third sets.
Burel, ranked No 56, will face Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, the No 20 seed, next.
New York (Grand Slam), other first-round results (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 75.000.000, most recent results first):
- Shelby Rogers vs. Jessica Pegula
- Bianca Andreescu vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Emma Raducanu vs. Sofia Kenin
- Mayar Sherif vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Leylah Fernandez
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Elina Avanesyan
- Nadia Podoroska vs. Diana Shnaider
- Qiang Wang vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Eva Lys vs. Marie Bouzkova
- Lauren Davis vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Alexa Noel
- Xinyu Wang vs. Arina Rodionova
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Linda Noskova
- Brenda Fruhvirtova vs. Varvara Lepchenko
- Anna Bondar vs. Bernarda Pera
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova vs. Clara Tauson
- Renata Zarazua vs. Caroline Garcia
- Elena Rybakina vs. Destanee Aiava
- Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Petra Martic
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Camila Osorio
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Kateryna Baindl
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Naomi Osaka
- Caroline Wozniacki vs. Nao Hibino
- Iga Swiatek vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
- Karolina Muchova vs. Katie Volynets
- Jessika Ponchet vs. Saisai Zheng
- Katie Boulter vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
- Cristina Bucsa vs. Sara Errani
- Danielle Collins vs. Caroline Dolehide
- Shuai Zhang vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Taylah Preston vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Daria Saville vs. Ena Shibahara
- Priscilla Hon vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Lulu Sun vs. Lucia Bronzetti: tuesday
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Viktoriya Tomova: tuesday
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q) beat Julia Grabher: 6-2, 6-4
- Harriet Dart beat Chloe Paquet (WC): 6-1, 6-2
- Victoria Azarenka beat Yulia Starodubtseva (Q): 3-6, 6-1, 6-1
- Emma Navarro (13) beat Anna Blinkova: 6-1, 6-1
- Barbora Krejcikova (8) beat Marina Bassols Ribera (Q): 7-6 (3), 6-2
- Iva Jovic (WC) beat Magda Linette: 6-4, 6-3
- Marta Kostyuk (19) beat McCartney Kessler (WC): 6-2, 6-3
- Arantxa Rus beat Ana Bogdan: 6-4, 7-6 (5)
- Ajla Tomljanovic beat Ann Li (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Madison Keys (14) beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-4, 6-1
- Elise Mertens (33) beat Veronika Kudermetova: 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Taylor Townsend beat Martina Trevisan: 6-2, 7-5
- Peyton Stearns beat Lesia Tsurenko: 6-1, 7-5
- Moyuka Uchijima beat Tamara Korpatsch: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Maya Joint (Q) beat Laura Siegemund: 6-4, 7-5
- Coco Gauff (3) beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-2, 6-0
- Tatjana Maria beat Solana Sierra (Q): 6-2, 6-3
- Paula Badosa (26) beat Viktorija Golubic: 6-0, 6-3
- Anhelina Kalinina beat Oceane Dodin: 6-1, 3-6, 6-1
- Greet Minnen beat Magdalena Frech: 7-5, 7-5
- Erika Andreeva beat Yue Yuan: 6-3, 7-6 (7)
- Donna Vekic (24) beat Kimberly Birrell (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Jule Niemeier beat Dayana Yastremska (32): 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-4
- Qinwen Zheng (7) beat Amanda Anisimova (WC): 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Elina Svitolina (27) beat Maria Lourdes Carle: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Yafan Wang beat Maria Sakkari (9): 6-2 ret.
- Diane Parry beat Xiyu Wang: 7-6 (2), 7-6 (5)
- Daria Kasatkina (12) beat Jaqueline Cristian: 6-2, 6-4
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