US Open: Stearns crushes 35 winners to reach second round
Peyton Stearns defeated Viktoriya Tomova 6-3, 6-4. She’ll play the winner of the match between Dane Clara Tauson and Russian Anastasia Potapova, the No 27 seed, in the next round
American Peyton Stearns moved into the second round of the US Open by defeating Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova 6-3, 6-4 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York.
It was a dominant display by Stearns, ranked No 59, who controlled the flow of the match throughout. Playing in front of a home crowd, Stearns peeled off 35 winners, making 71 percent of first serves and breaking Tomova six times across the one hour, 36 minute match.
Stearns will face the winner of the match between Dane Clara Tauson and Russian Anastasia Potapova, the No 27 seed, next.
New York (Grand Slam), other first-round results (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 44.700.000, most recent results first):
- Maryna Zanevska vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Greet Minnen vs. Venus Williams
- Ana Bogdan vs. Sofia Kenin
- Anna Blinkova vs. Jodie Burrage
- Sachia Vickery vs. Donna Vekic
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Robin Montgomery vs. Eva Lys
- Barbora Strycova vs. Kaia Kanepi
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Nadia Podoroska
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Fiona Crawley
- Karolina Pliskova vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse
- Clara Tauson vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Elsa Jacquemot vs. Lesia Tsurenko: tuesday
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Alycia Parks: tuesday
- Patricia Maria Tig vs. Rebecca Marino: tuesday
- Elina Svitolina (26) beat Anna-Lena Friedsam: 6-3, 6-1
- Clara Burel beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-4, 6-3
- Yanina Wickmayer (LL) beat Vera Zvonareva (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Jessica Pegula (3) beat Camila Giorgi: 6-2, 6-2
- Marketa Vondrousova (9) beat Na-Lae Han (Q): 6-3, 6-0
- Yafan Wang (Q) beat Caroline Garcia (7): 6-4, 6-1
- Petra Martic beat Tatjana Maria: 6-2, 6-1
- Madison Keys (17) beat Arantxa Rus: 6-2, 6-4
- Martina Trevisan beat Yulia Putintseva: 0-6, 7-6, 7-6 (8)
- Marie Bouzkova (31) beat Ashlyn Krueger (WC): 7-5, 6-4
- Linda Noskova beat Madison Brengle: 6-2, 6-1
- Ons Jabeur (5) beat Camila Osorio: 7-5, 7-6 (4)
- Tamara Korpatsch beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 6-3, 6-2
- Liudmila Samsonova (14) beat Claire Liu: 7-6 (3), 6-3
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (22) beat Leylah Fernandez: 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-4
- Katie Boulter beat Diane Parry: 6-4, 6-0
- Caroline Wozniacki (WC) beat Tatiana Prozorova (Q): 6-3, 6-2
- Magda Linette (24) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 6-3, 6-1
- Sorana Cirstea (30) beat Kayla Day (WC): 6-2, 6-3
- Mirra Andreeva beat Olivia Gadecki (Q): 1-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Coco Gauff (6) beat Laura Siegemund (Q): 3-6, 6-2, 6-4
- Petra Kvitova (11) beat Cristina Bucsa: 6-1, 7-6 (5)
- Jelena Ostapenko (20) beat Jasmine Paolini: 6-2, 4-6, 6-1
- Elina Avanesyan beat Alize Cornet: 6-2, 1-6, 6-4
- Anna Kalinskaya beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-4, 6-2
- Elise Mertens (32) beat Mirjam Bjorklund (Q): 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3)
- Ajla Tomljanovic beat Panna Udvardy: 3-6, 6-2, 6-4
- Xiyu Wang beat Viktoria Hruncakova (LL): 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (6)
- Jennifer Brady beat Kimberly Birrell (LL): 6-3, 7-6 (4)
- Lin Zhu beat Mayar Sherif: 6-3, 7-5
- Kaja Juvan (Q) beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto (29): 6-2, 7-5
- Xinyu Wang beat Katie Volynets (Q): 6-3, 6-4
- Elena Rybakina (4) beat Marta Kostyuk: 6-2, 6-1
- Yuriko Miyazaki (Q) beat Margarita Betova: 6-3, 6-3
- Danielle Collins beat Linda Fruhvirtova: 6-2, 6-0
- Bernarda Pera beat Veronika Kudermetova (16): 7-5, 6-4
- Sara Sorribes Tormo beat Anhelina Kalinina (28): 6-4, 7-5
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (19) beat Sloane Stephens: 6-2, 5-7, 6-4
- Lauren Davis beat Danka Kovinic: 6-2, 6-2
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Rebecca Peterson: 6-0, 6-1
- Rebeka Masarova beat Maria Sakkari (8): 6-4, 6-4
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova beat Kateryna Baindl: 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
- Taylor Townsend beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-4, 6-2
- Magdalena Frech beat Emma Navarro: 7-6 (10), 1-6, 6-2
- Karolina Muchova (10) beat Storm Hunter (WC): 6-4, 6-0
- Belinda Bencic (15) beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 6-2, 6-4
- Victoria Azarenka (18) beat Fiona Ferro (WC): 6-1, 6-2
- Daria Saville beat Clervie Ngounoue (WC): 6-0, 6-2