Canadian tennis player Bianca Andreescu, who is the 2019 champion, qualified for the third round of the US Open 2022. She eliminated the 15th-seeded Beatriz Haddad Maia by 2-0 (6:2, 6:4). The Brazilian failed to break into the match and made 30 unforced errors against 14 of the opponent.
The next rival of the 22-year-old Bianca Andreescu will be 17th-seeded Caroline Garcia, who won the warming tournament in Cincinnati. She easily handled Russian Anna Kalinskaya with 2-0 (6:3, 6:1) and already is in a series of ten consecutive victories.
Last year’s runner-up and 14th-seeded Leylah Annie Fernandez (Canada) was defeated in the second round by Russian Ludmilla Samsonova with 0-2 (3:6, 6:7). The second set was more equal, with the Russian missing five match points at 6:5. In the tiebreak, she caught up with an early liability of 0-2 points and came to a reversal.
Ludmilla Samsonova will face Aleksandra Krunic (Serbia) in the third round, who eliminated the French Open 2021 champion Barbora Krejcikova.
The 31st-seeded American Shelby Rogers won against Viktória Kuzmova (Slovakia) by 2-0 (7:5, 6:1) and awaits the fifth-seeded Ons Jabeur (Tunisia).
