First Top 10 win for Dart, shocks Kasatkina to make US Open second round
Harriet Dart defeated Daria Kasatkina 7-6 (8), 1-6, 6-3 on Monday and will play Hungarian Dalma Galfi in the next round
Harriet Dart won against Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 10 seed, 7-6 (8), 1-6, 6-3 to advance to the second round of the US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City on Monday.
It is her first Top 10 win, and her first main draw win at Flushing Meadows – and makes her the first British woman since Johanna Konta to get a New York win over a player ranked in the Top 10.
Kasatkina, on the other hand, had gone into the tournament in great form, having just won the title at Granby, and enjoying a 10-2 winning record during the North American hard-court swing.
Dart, ranked No 88, will face Hungarian Dalma Galfi next.
US Open, other first-round results:
- Ons Jabeur (5) beat Madison Brengle: 7-5, 6-2
- Diane Parry vs. Xiyu Wang: monday
- Madison Keys vs. Dayana Yastremska: monday
- Camila Giorgi beat Anna Bondar: 4-6, 6-3, 6-1
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (15) beat Ana Konjuh: 6-0, 6-0
- Coco Gauff (12) beat Leolia Jeanjean (Q): 6-2, 6-3
- Maryna Zanevska beat Coco Vandeweghe (WC): 6-1, 7-5
- Dalma Galfi beat Nuria Parrizas Diaz: 6-4, 6-3
- Daria Snigur (Q) beat Simona Halep (7): 6-2, 0-6, 6-4
- Elizabeth Mandlik (WC) beat Tamara Zidansek: 5-7, 7-6 (3), 6-4
- Bianca Andreescu beat Harmony Tan (WC): 6-0, 3-6, 6-1
- Maria Sakkari (3) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-4, 3-6, 6-0
- Veronika Kudermetova (18) beat Donna Vekic: 7-5, 6-3
- Camila Osorio beat Ann Li: 1-6, 6-3, 6-1
- Alison Riske-Amritraj (29) beat Eleana Yu (WC): 6-2, 6-4
- Caroline Garcia (17) beat Kamilla Rakhimova (LL): 6-2, 6-4
- Anna Kalinskaya beat Rebecca Peterson: 6-4, 6-3