The Olympic tennis champion Belinda Bencic of Switzerland won the first round of the US Open against the Dutch Arantxa Rus with 2-0 (6:4, 6:4). The match lasted an hour and a half and was won relatively easily by the Swiss player.
Belinda Bencic managed to make exactly 2 breaks in both sets, which guaranteed her victory at the start.
In the second round, the Olympic tennis champion will face the Italian Martina Trevisan, who prevailed with 2-0 (6:4, 7:5) over the American player Colleen “CoCo” Vandeweghe. The match lasted 1:36 hours, and the Italian was uncompromising – 4 breaks from 4 possibilities.
The 24th-seeded Spaniard Paula Badosa defeated the Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck with 2-0 (6:4, 6:3). She made 47% of her points in the returns. In the second round, Paula Badosa will face the 21-year-old Russian talent Varvara Gracheva, who defeated Nuria Parrizas-Diaz with 2-1 (5:7, 6:0, 6:2).