US Open: Brady continues comeback, knocking out No 24 seed Linette
Jennifer Brady defeated Magda Linette 6-1, 2-6, 6-2 and will play the winner of the match between Petra Kvitova and Caroline Wozniacki in the next round
American Jennifer Brady reached the third round of the US Open by defeating Pole Magda Linette, the No 24 seed, 6-1, 2-6, 6-2 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Wednesday night.
While Brady played good tennis to advance, it was a poor night by Linette’s standards, with 30 unforced errors across the three sets and only 12 winners from her racquet.
Brady, ranked No 433, will face the winner of the match between No 11 seed Petra Kvitova and Dane wildcard Caroline Wozniacki, up next on Arthur Ashe.
In the previous round of the US Open, the American won against Australian lucky loser Kimberly Birrell (6-3, 7-6 (4)). Linette, ranked No 24, beat Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich (6-3, 6-1) in the previous round of the Flushing Meadow tournament.
New York (Grand Slam), other second-round results (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 44.700.000, most recent results first):
- Patricia Maria Tig vs. Jessica Pegula
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Sofia Kenin
- Greet Minnen vs. Sachia Vickery
- Ons Jabeur vs. Linda Noskova
- Petra Martic vs. Marie Bouzkova
- Elina Svitolina vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Yanina Wickmayer vs. Madison Keys
- Jodie Burrage vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Martina Trevisan vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Karolina Pliskova vs. Clara Burel
- Eva Lys vs. Lucia Bronzetti
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Tamara Korpatsch
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Lesia Tsurenko
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Kaia Kanepi
- Peyton Stearns vs. Clara Tauson
- Yafan Wang vs. Katie Boulter
- Petra Kvitova vs. Caroline Wozniacki: thursday
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Elina Avanesyan: thursday
- Elena Rybakina vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
- Bernarda Pera beat Xiyu Wang: 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2
- Lin Zhu beat Victoria Azarenka (18): 6-3, 6-3
- Sorana Cirstea (30) beat Anna Kalinskaya: 6-3, 6-4
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Daria Saville: 6-3, 6-4
- Karolina Muchova (10) beat Magdalena Frech: 6-3, 6-3
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova beat Rebeka Masarova: 7-6, 6-2
- Xinyu Wang beat Sara Sorribes Tormo: 5-7, 6-3, 6-4
- Coco Gauff (6) beat Mirra Andreeva: 6-3, 6-2
- Belinda Bencic (15) beat Yuriko Miyazaki (Q): 6-3, 6-3
- Kaja Juvan (Q) beat Lauren Davis: 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-3
- Taylor Townsend beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (19): 7-6 (1), 7-5
- Elise Mertens (32) beat Danielle Collins: 3-6, 7-6 (7), 6-1