NEW YORK (AP) — The only disorders ash Barty and other more sensitive players faced at the U. S. Open Thursday afternoon came in delays that tried to reach Flushing Meadows following the wrecks of Hurricane Ida that crossed the Northeast overnight.
Barty, a two-time primary champion who joins Tokyo Olympic gold medalist Belinda Bencic, two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and the top seeds adding 14th Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 17th Maria Sakkari, 23rd Jessica Pegula and No 28th Anett Kontaveit won it all in two sets to advance. to the third round.
Advancing to consecutive men’s sets in the day’s session: Summer Games gold medalist and 2020 U. S. Open runner-up Alexander Zverev and No. 22 Reilly Opelka of the United States.
The maximum expected adjustment in the program will be positioned overnight, when the No. 1 Novak Djokovic won his streak of 22 consecutive Grand Slam victories at Arthur Ashe Stadium against Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor, 121st. a calendar year in men’s tennis since Rod Laver in 1969 and aims to break the men’s record of 20 major career titles he has with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.
With the sun out and cloudless, the second-round matches on the outdoor courts were delayed from 11 a. m. to noon to allow the U. S. Tennis Association to play a few games in the open-air field. USA Trim the branches of the felled trees and other scattered debris and make sure everything was in condition for the festival on the day. four from the last Grand Slam tournament of the year.
Once everything was ready, it was just about transporting players, traffic delays caused by road closures and abandoned cars overnight; A trip from Manhattan to Queens, which usually takes 30 to 45 minutes, took an hour and a part or more for some.
“We had to do a full evaluation of the courts and make the courts playable and Hawk-Eye work,” USTA spokesman Chris Widmaier said.
He said that even though forecasts forecast heavy rain Wednesday night, NYCD had not asked the USTA to cancel the evening consultation, a twice-daily briefing on the regime.
Eventually, the National Weather Service workplace in New York declared flash flooding in the area, subway stations and tracks were flooded so much that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority suspended all facilities, and New York City implemented a ban until five a. m. thursday for all non-emergency cases. vehicles.
“Trying to figure out what was happening here on the spot was pretty amazing, and I know there was a lot of flash flooding and a lot of other people struggling. Hopefully, many of the other people on the site come back and ring, and New Yorkers in general were able to return home, as it was a pretty wild storm. It has wreaked havoc; obviously, there was a game later today, I think, because, obviously, because of the damage to the site,” Barty said.
“It took us a while to get there this morning, yet we planned that moment,” he added, “hoping there would be a little more challenge than the arrival of a general. “
She delivered 11 aces and racked up 19 breaking balls, five, heading for a 6-1, 7-5 victory over 18-year-old Danish Tauson.
The only seed to come out on the 24th was Paula Badosa, who eliminated through Varvara Gracheva 6-4, 6-4.
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