The top-seeded Ashleigh Barty ended her participation at the US Open ingloriously. The Australian lost in the third round to the American Shelby Rogers. The match offered a lot of emotions and twists, but in the end, the world’s 43rd got the victory with 2-1 (6:2, 1:6, 6:7).
The match started horribly for Ashleigh Barty, who had serious problems in the beginning and in the first set failed to offer serious resistance to Shelby Rogers, who won it definitely with 6:2.
The second set, however, was totally different. Shelby Rogers picked up the pace and ran over the 28-year-old American with a clear 6:1.
The biggest intrigue was in the decisive third set. It started with an early break for the Australian in the first game, and then she made another one and took the lead with 5:2. At that moment, Ashleigh Barty was already touching the victory and had a chance to serve twice for the match, but then there was a break in her game, she made two consecutive breakthroughs and the result was 5:5, and then 6:6, as the set went in the tiebreak. In it, each of the two tennis players won their pass to 5:5, then Shelby Rogers made a mini-break, and finally won the next point to close the set and the match in her favor with 7:5 points.
Thus, Shelby Rogers continues to the Round of 16 of the US Open, reaching this stage in the tournament for the second time in her career, after last year he even reached the quarterfinals. In the next round, the American will face the British teenager Emma Raducanu.
