Key events
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Gaël Monfils played his last grand slam singles match last night, and he isn’t planning to stay in tennis after retirement. “I have a new chapter coming next year. I will work in finance,” he told reporters. “I already signed to work in wealth management in a Swiss company. So my next chapter … working in an office.”
“I will always have a look on tennis, because I love the sport. My wife’s playing. I don’t think, you know, this next year I will do so much about tennis,” Monfils added. “But, you know, I’ll be around definitely no matter what for Elina [Svitolina, his wife] a little bit, but I will be more of a finance guy.”
Rakhimova is hanging on in the first set, grinding out a hold when Sabalenka mishits. It’s a rare error from the No 1 seed, who has looked close to her relentless best today. She leads 4-2 in the first.
On the Grandstand court, Marta Kostyuk has also broken at the first time of asking against Ekaterina Alexandrova. Elsewhere, Jasmine Paolini began with an early break but has been pegged back by Sorana Cirstea; the Italian leads 2-1 on serve.
Aryna Sabalenka is up and running, quickly breaking Kamilla Rakhimova to lead 2-0 in the first set. Rakhimova, the world No 92, showed plenty of fight in the first round, though, saving match points before beating Barbora Krejcikova.
Here’s what happened yesterday:
Preamble
The third round gets under way today in New York, pitting seeded players against each other for the first time. The draw is about to really take shape, and there are some intriguing matches coming up. Here’s the order of play this afternoon.
Arthur Ashe Stadium (from 11.30am local/4.30pm BST)
(3) Jessica Pegula v Leylah Fernandez (31)
Yibing Wu v Carlos Alcaraz (2)
Night session: Venus/Serena v Chan/Joint, Shelton v Shaparov
Louis Armstrong Stadium (from 11am/4pm)
(1) Aryna Sabalenka v Kamilla Rakhimova
(15) Alexander Bublik v Tommy Paul (20)
Night session: Vacharot v Tiafoe, Svitolina v Kalinskaya
Grandstand (from 11am/4pm)
(11) Marta Kostyuk v Ekaterina Alexandrova (18)
(7) Daniil Medvedev v Arthur Rinderknech (26)
(26) Emma Navarro v Karolina Muchova (7)
(18) Jiri Lehecka v Stefanos Tsitsipas
Stadium 17 (from 11am/4pm)
(19) Jasmine Paolini v Sorena Cirstea (16)
Taylor Townsend v Diana Shnaider (15)
(29) Ann Li v Linda Noskova (6)
Alex Michelsen v Daniel Merida
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