Key events
Looking at the women’s draw, I’ve not a clue who’s going to come through it. I say this a lot, but it’s the least predictable sport in the world and possibly the least predictable a sport has ever been. Coco Gauff has been improving and wouldn’t it be great if Serena could eke eek out one final major, but the reality is that no one knows anything.
We’ve got three Brits playing today – Jack Draper and Andy Murray I mentioned, but Harriet Dart meets Dalma Galfi in early evening. She had a great win over Daria Kasatkina [10] in round one, and should she win today, she becomes British no1.
On Amazon, Jim Courer and Tim Henman are discussing Emma Raducanu; both sort of say she needs to get a bit more serious about competing. Not that she’s not serious now, but that she needs a more conventional coaching set-up to extract the most from her talent.
Show court order of play
Ashe (12pm local, 5pm BST)
Andy Murray v Emilio Nava
Elena Gabriela Ruse v Cori Gauff [12]
Ashe (7pm local, 12am BST)
Serena Williams v Anett Kontaveit [2]
Daniil Medvedev [1] v Arthur Rinderknech
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Armstrong (11am local, 4pm BST)
Xiyu Wang v Maria Sakkari [3]
Maddison Keys [20] v Camila Giorgi
Nick Kyrgios [23] v Benjamin Bonzi
Armstrong (7pm local, 12ampm BST)
Jack Draper v Felix Auger-Aliassime [6]
Beatriz Haddad Maia [15] v Bianca Andreescu
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Grandstand (11am local, 4pm BST)
Ons Jabeur [5] v Elizabeth Mandlik
Hugo Grenier v Mario Berrettini [13]
Tommy Paul [29] v Sebastian Korda
Leylah Fernandez v Liudmila Samsonova
Preamble
What’s up, dudes?! Amped for another dope day of US Open? Let’s gooooo!
As is ever the case at this stage of a slam, we need more eyes – and more independent eyes – than we have, in order to take everything in. But for starters, we’ve got Andy Murray, Coco Gauff, Nick Kyrgios, Ons Jabeur, Mario Berrettini and Daniil Medvedev all playing, plus some contests that look absolutely terrific: Serena Williams v Anett Kontaveit, Maddison Keys v Camila Giorgi, Jack Draper v Felix Auger-Aliassime and Cristian Garín v Alex de Minaur.
So stick with me, and let’s see how it all shakes out.
Play: 11am local, 4pm BST