US Open: Collins bows out of Grand Slam tennis with defeat by Dolehide in round one

Caroline Dolehide moved into the second round of the US Open by edging out No 11 seed Danielle Collins 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

Defeat in the first round of the final Grand Slam of the year also marks the last match at a major of Collins’ career, having announced in January that she intended to retire at the end of the season.

This was far from the way that Collins will have wanted to close the curtain on her home Slam – and her Grand Slam career – especially having had such a superb final season on tour, during which she claimed back-to-back trophies at the Miami Open and in Charleston before maintaining good form for the rest of her campaign.

Yet Dolehide was good value for her win. After cruising through the opening set 6-1, Collins was pegged back by a tenacious opponent, with Dolehide clinching the second set 7-5 with a much improved display.

The world No 49 then proceeded to stun the 11th seed, taking the decider 6-4 to call a premature end to Collin’s Grand Slam career.

Dolehide, ranked No 49, will face Italian Sara Errani in the second round.

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
• Jelena Ostapenko vs. Naomi Osaka
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Petra Martic
• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Nao Hibino
• Elena Rybakina vs. Destanee Aiava
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Camila Osorio: tuesday
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Kateryna Baindl: tuesday
• Iga Swiatek vs. Kamilla Rakhimova: tuesday
• Ashlyn Krueger beat Shuai Zhang: 0-6, 6-1, 7-5
• Jessika Ponchet (Q) beat Saisai Zheng: 6-4, 6-1
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (25) beat Taylah Preston (WC): 6-2, 6-0
• Karolina Muchova beat Katie Volynets: 6-3, 7-5
• Sara Errani beat Cristina Bucsa: 3-6, 6-0, 6-4
• Daria Saville vs. Ena Shibahara: tuesday
• Katie Boulter (31) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Q): 5-7, 6-2, 6-1
• Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Priscilla Hon (Q): 6-3, 6-3
• Lucia Bronzetti beat Lulu Sun: 6-3 ret.
• Ekaterina Alexandrova (29) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-7 (4), 6-0, 7-5
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q) beat Julia Grabher: 6-2, 6-4
• Harriet Dart beat Chloe Paquet (WC): 6-1, 6-2
• Clara Burel beat Sloane Stephens: 0-6, 7-5, 7-5
• Victoria Azarenka (20) 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