Nuno Borges wins in five sets 6-7 (5), 6-1, 7-6 (6), 6-0 over Jakub Mensik to advance to the fourth round of the U.S. Open.
Borges saved three match points in the fourth set tiebreak before winning the next six games and the match.
It is Borges' first round of 16 appearance at the U.S. Open in his career.
The first set belongs to world No.1 Iga Swiatek, taking it 6-4 against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
Swiatek broke Pavlyuchenkova just once which was all she needed to capture the set.
Swiatek won 78 percent of her first serve points and only committed eight unforced errors.
A solid set for the 2022 U.S. Open champion.
though she didn’t stay there – and also feels a strong sense of belonging when she competes in this competition. She’ll feel she can win this thing too – worse players than her have – however impregnable Sabalenka seems.
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Badosa, remember, has had back problems so severe she was told she might never play again, and also struggled with depression. Seeing her give the ball such joyful thumps is inspiring and energising to see, and if she can hold it down, I don’t see how Wang can beat her.
Badosa, remember, has had back problems so severe she was told she might never play again, and also struggled with depression. Seeing her give the ball such joyful thumps is inspiring and energising to see, and if she can hold it down, I don’t see how Wang can beat her.
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Yo dudes and welcome to the US Open 2024 – day seven!
We’re there aren’t we? After a first week of ludicrous action all over the show, we’re down – or up – to ludicrous action on the show courts, and there’s plenty of it.
We open on Armstrong with the heartwarming resurgence of Paula Badosa, rehabilitated and imposing her brave power-hitting in invigorating style. Chances are she has too much for Yafan Wang, but it doesn’t take much for game as big as hers to go haywire under pressure – and there’s plenty of that here.
On Ashe, meanwhile, we begin with a potential belter. Andrey Rublev wants it so badly you can feel it across the Atlantic, but he hasn’t quite found what it takes to beat a better player when it really matters. And though Griggzy Dimitrov isn’t that, he is a canny and classy operator who’s improved with age and, given the players who’ve gone out, he’ll be wondering if he might just force something he thought had passed him by.
Otherwise, we’ve got ourselves an enticing slugfest between Casper Ruud and the surging Taylor Fritz, while Brandon Nakashima, also in the form of his life, tries to upset Alexander Zverev.
And the day sesh closes on Ashe with a potentially nasty ruckus for the champ. Coco Gauff isn’t playing quite as well as she was this time last year, whereas Emma Navarro has never played better. At 23 the sense is that she’s hitting her stride, all her best Grand Slam performances coming in 2024. At Wimbledon, she couldn’t handle the situation when things got intense, beating Gauff handily before taking a last-eight hiding off Jasmine Paolini. But a New York, New York local, she’s much happier on the hard than the grass, so don’t be surprised if she does something special today – again.
Everything went to the script of the sixth day of the US Open as both top seeds advanced, as well as Americans Pegula and Paul
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Nuno Borges wins in five sets 6-7 (5), 6-1, 7-6 (6), 6-0 over Jakub Mensik to advance to the fourth round of the U.S. Open.
Borges saved three match points in the fourth set tiebreak before winning the next six games and the match.
It is Borges' first round of 16 appearance at the U.S. Open in his career.
The first set belongs to world No.1 Iga Swiatek, taking it 6-4 against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
Swiatek broke Pavlyuchenkova just once which was all she needed to capture the set.
Swiatek won 78 percent of her first serve points and only committed eight unforced errors.
A solid set for the 2022 U.S. Open champion.
though she didn’t stay there – and also feels a strong sense of belonging when she competes in this competition. She’ll feel she can win this thing too – worse players than her have – however impregnable Sabalenka seems.
Bad actors spreading disinformation online to undermine democracy.
Teams of lawyers from the rich and powerful trying to stop us publishing stories they don’t want you to see.
Lobby groups with opaque funding who are determined to undermine facts about the climate emergency and other established science.
Authoritarian states with no regard for the freedom of the press.
***
But we have something powerful on our side.
We’ve got you.
The Guardian is funded by its readers and the only person who decides what we publish is our editor.
If you want to join us in our mission to share independent, global journalism to the world, we’d love to have you on side.
Please choose to support us today. It only takes a minute and you can cancel at any time. Thank you.
Badosa, remember, has had back problems so severe she was told she might never play again, and also struggled with depression. Seeing her give the ball such joyful thumps is inspiring and energising to see, and if she can hold it down, I don’t see how Wang can beat her.
Badosa, remember, has had back problems so severe she was told she might never play again, and also struggled with depression. Seeing her give the ball such joyful thumps is inspiring and energising to see, and if she can hold it down, I don’t see how Wang can beat her.
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Yo dudes and welcome to the US Open 2024 – day seven!
We’re there aren’t we? After a first week of ludicrous action all over the show, we’re down – or up – to ludicrous action on the show courts, and there’s plenty of it.
We open on Armstrong with the heartwarming resurgence of Paula Badosa, rehabilitated and imposing her brave power-hitting in invigorating style. Chances are she has too much for Yafan Wang, but it doesn’t take much for game as big as hers to go haywire under pressure – and there’s plenty of that here.
On Ashe, meanwhile, we begin with a potential belter. Andrey Rublev wants it so badly you can feel it across the Atlantic, but he hasn’t quite found what it takes to beat a better player when it really matters. And though Griggzy Dimitrov isn’t that, he is a canny and classy operator who’s improved with age and, given the players who’ve gone out, he’ll be wondering if he might just force something he thought had passed him by.
Otherwise, we’ve got ourselves an enticing slugfest between Casper Ruud and the surging Taylor Fritz, while Brandon Nakashima, also in the form of his life, tries to upset Alexander Zverev.
And the day sesh closes on Ashe with a potentially nasty ruckus for the champ. Coco Gauff isn’t playing quite as well as she was this time last year, whereas Emma Navarro has never played better. At 23 the sense is that she’s hitting her stride, all her best Grand Slam performances coming in 2024. At Wimbledon, she couldn’t handle the situation when things got intense, beating Gauff handily before taking a last-eight hiding off Jasmine Paolini. But a New York, New York local, she’s much happier on the hard than the grass, so don’t be surprised if she does something special today – again.
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