Australians Alexei Popyrin and Maya Joint enjoy their return to the US Open a year after famous wins at Flushing Meadows.
Alex de Minaur beats Chris O'Connell at US Open, Alexei Popyrin to meet Jannik Sinner , Maya Joint gets first major win for 2025Alex de Minaur beats Chris O'Connell at US Open, Alexei Popyrin to meet Jannik Sinner , Maya Joint gets first major win for 2025Alex de Minaur has beaten fellow Australian Chris O'Connell in straight sets in the first round of the US Open.
De Minaur looked every bit Australia's number one player as he did not face a single break point against O'Connell in a 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 win inside 2 hours. If he can get to the last eight this year, it would mark the first time in de Minaur's career he had reached the quarterfinals in consecutive years at any major.
"If you want to win these tournaments, you have to beat one of these players at some point," he said. It continued Joint's extraordinary 2025 success story, despite losing her previous three first-round matches at this year's grand slams — the only negatives in a brilliant year for the 19-year-old Queensland-based player, featuring her first two WTA titles on clay in Morocco and grass at Eastbourne.
She again demonstrated her temperament as world number 130 Kasintseva, another fine young talent at the age of just 20, put on the pressure in a 66-minute second set, twice earning set points at 5-3 and then again in the tiebreak at 6-5.
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