U.S. Open tennis

The last tennis grand slam of the year swings into action in New York. Join Luke McLaughlin for updates.

All appears to be well for Murray at first, at 40-15 in his opening service game. However, Cerundolo smacks an ace down the middle for the game, after earning himself a game point, and Murray must serve for this first set. At 15-30, Murray produces an unforced error to allow his opponent back to 30-30. Good signs for Murray as he breaks his opponent fairly comfortably and is very much in the ascendancy right now. Murray treats himself to a passionate “Come on!” after creating what looks to be a decisive lead in the second set. But Murray can serve to close it out and move two sets ahead. Murray breaks to kick off the third set! On Louis Armstrong Stadium, Murray holds for 3-1 in the third set. Cerundolo crushes a forehand winner into the corner to take it back to deuce. Anyway, Cerundolo seals another service hold, despite Murray winning a couple of points. Cerundolo is going to make Murray wait. Coco Gauff is up next on Ashe, against French qualifier Leolia Jeanjean.

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[Andy Murray](https://www.scotsman.com/sport/other-sport/andy-murray-my-career-felt-irrelevant-until-i-won-my-first-us-open-3822528) is a distant 200/1 to add another US Open trophy to his cabinet. In the UK the US Open is available to watch on Amazon Prime Video via the website or the Prime Video app on mobile, tablet or smart TV. [Emma Raducanu](https://www.scotsman.com/sport/recalling-when-us-open-champion-emma-raducanu-impressed-as-a-nine-year-old-in-edinburgh-3381639) is priced at 25/1 to defend the title she won in 2021. [Novak Djokovic](https://www.scotsman.com/topic/novak-djokovic), world number one and defending champion Daniil Medvedev is a firm favourite with the bookies for the men’s competition at odds of 23/10. Who are the favourites to win the US Open Tennis? US Open Tennis 2022: When do Andy Murray and Emma Raducanu play, what's the prize money, who are the favourites, and how to watch on TV?

Williams will begin the night session in Ashe for the start of what could be the final tournament of her career. The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion faces ...

The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion faces Danka Kovinic. Open has begun with far more buzz than usual for Day 1. ___

New York (AP) -- The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local):. ___. 2 p.m.. Andy Murray has reached the second round of the U.S. Open ...

Does Serena Williams have one last magical run left in her? The 23-time Grand Slam winner begins her final tennis tournament Monday night, facing Danka ...

[will mark the final chapter in Serena Williams’ prolific tennis career](https://pagesix.com/2022/08/09/serena-williams-announces-shes-retiring-from-tennis/), which includes 23 Grand Slam titles. More, she made tennis fresh, exciting and dramatic, drawing younger eyes to the game. She’ll also compete in the doubles, partnered with older sister Venus. The draw broke favorably for the 407th-ranked Williams. Kontaveit is the No. Serena Williams to show up in style for US Open match against Danka Kovinic

Serena Williams begins what is probably her final U.S. Open with a first-round match against Danka Kovinic. Follow along for the latest updates.

… I’m just beginning." I would have to wait until it gets light. Sometimes I wake up at like 6:00 in the morning to go practice and it was too dark. “I once heard Althea Gibson, one of her best friends told me she wanted to see another African American win a Slam before her time is up. Sept. Open 10 times and won the title six times, in 1999, 2002, 2008, 2012-14.

The 23-time Grand Slam champion will start her farewell tour of Flushing Meadows with a first-round match against Danka Kovinic of Montenegro.

She has never made it past the third round of a Grand Slam tournament and has never made it past the second round at the U.S. [set to play Danka Kovinic](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/sports/tennis/us-open-draw-serena-williams.html) in the first round of the tournament Monday, with her match scheduled for 7 p.m. As of Monday, tickets to see Williams play her first — and potentially last — singles match at the U.S. Afterward, a large crowd of fans watched as she exited the tennis center complex in a black sport utility vehicle. “I can’t think of a moment for her in her career in her life that she settled for less.” In addition to the singles draw, Williams will play women’s doubles with her sister, Venus. She has not ruled out playing more beyond New York, but it seems unlikely, particularly with her lining up to play doubles with her sister Venus for the first time at the U.S. “I think it was the best match in my career.” Simona Halep, a two-time Grand Slam singles champion and a semifinalist at Wimbledon last month, had the stumble of the day. Many fans who don’t have a ticket for Ashe just want a taste of the atmosphere of Serena Williams’s first match of the U.S. With apologies to the other 126 players who took to the courts at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Day 1 of the U.S. She did a quick change in the locker room and emerged into the quiet hallway, where one of her trainers was waiting.

Game-by-game report: The 23-time major champion opens her campaign in what is almost certainly the final tournament of her career. Beau Dure has the latest.

Kovinić forces Serena into a bad spot in the next rally and goes up 30-40. The next serve nearly knocks the GOAT off her feet and leads to the best rally of the match thus far, with a nice mix of power and slices. On the next point, Serena comes to the net but volleys poorly. At 15-30, Kovinić rips one of her best serves of the match and still loses the point, hanging a drop shot where Serena can easily hit the winner. Then we get a truly outstanding point, with Serena running Kovinić ragged before surprising the Montenegrin with a drop shot. Then turnabout is fair play, as Kovinić puts a shot on nearly the same spot on the court where Serena placed a shot barely on the line and started her big run. But Serena misses her next first serve, and Kovinić rallies well to get to deuce. Serena is momentarily stunned but comes back to win the next point on a Kovinić error. Kovinić starts her attempt to stay in the match with a double fault. The Celebrity Roast of Serena Williams is still in progress, delayed a bit by the fact that Serena had to go out and win a tennis match first. Serena misses an opportunity to go up 40-15, and then another error gives Kovinić a surprising break point. Galan then literally takes a run at the upset, chasing down a drop shot and getting back up to run down another.

The transcendent and transformative star of women's tennis faces Danka Kovinic Monday night in her opening match of the U.S. Open.

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Simona Halep has been knocked out of the US Open in the first round, losing 6-2 0-6 6-4 to qualifier Daria Snigur in a huge upset on Louis Armstrong ...

I want to say thanks to Simona for a such a great match, it was a great experience for me - it’s impossible to play against Simona and win! US Open 124, as her dreams of claiming a third Grand Slam single’s title unexpectedly went up in smoke.

NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams is not ready to say goodbye just yet. Nor, clearly, are her fans. In her first match at what is expected to be the last U.S. ...

And why the daily program did not make mention of any other of the dozens of athletes in action, showing instead a montage of six images of Williams holding her six U.S. Look, this is a historic moment for the Williams family, for Serena and our sport,” said Stacey Allaster, the tournament director of the American Grand Slam event. Mom said she’s been traveling from Boston to New York for the U.S. “It is so difficult to really capture what Serena and Venus have done for the sport of tennis. Open marks the final chapter of her storied tennis history.” “And now, she’s ...” She’s done so much,” said Quintella Thorn, a 68-year-old from Columbus, Georgia, making her eighth trip to the U.S. There can be no doubt, the folks so enthusiastically backing Williams on Monday will come again to the U.S. Open](/article/serena-williams-career-guide-16677e2e12a305d1cbec1634abbd6db1) — and last tournament — of [her remarkable playing career](/article/serena-williams-retirement-plans-f1cf0c3c2f709e35e2e6221f2cc34e72), Williams overcame a shaky start to overwhelm Danka Kovinic 6-3, 6-3 on Monday night in a packed Arthur Ashe Stadium with an atmosphere more akin to a festival than a farewell. Williams will play in the second round of singles on Wednesday against No. After watching the victory over Kovinic, spectators held up blue, white or red placards that were distributed at their seats to spell out “We (Heart) Serena.” Maybe it was the significance of the moment.

Serena Williams has not played her final US Open match. In front of an electric crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium, Williams defeated Danka Kovinic in a 6-3, 6-3 ...

Williams will now move on to face Anett Kontaveit in the second round. On top of gunning for her seventh US Open title in women's singles, Williams will also be playing with her sister, Venus, in the doubles tournament. In the second set, Williams found more of a rhythm with her serve. It wasn't easy, but Williams felt like now was the best time to move onto other things. With a semifinals appearance in her last 11 appearances at Flushing Meadows, Williams has plenty of experience on her side. Williams closes it out with a dominant effort in the final game.

Daria Snigur of Ukraine pulled off the first big upset of the U.S. Open, knocking off No. 7 seed Simona Halep 6-2, 0-6, 6-4.

Elina Svitolina’s run to the 2019 semifinals is the best performance by a Ukrainian in the U.S. But Snigur responded nicely after Halep won the second set, racing to a 5-1 lead in the third. One of five of them in this year's draw, Snigur will face Canadian Rebecca Marino on Wednesday. The two-time Grand Slam champion had won 19 of her previous 22 matches and recently returned to the top 10. Open runner-up Leylah Fernandez in the “Tennis Plays for Peace Exhibition,” an event organized by the U.S. On Wednesday, she joined tennis superstars such as Rafael Nadal, Coco Gauff, John McEnroe, Iga Swiatek and 2021 U.S.

Daria Snigur, a 20-year-old ranked 124th in the world, burst into tears after beating Halep, a two-time major singles champion.

She has never made it past the third round of a Grand Slam tournament and has never made it past the second round at the U.S. As of Monday, tickets to see Williams play her first — and potentially last — singles match at the U.S. [set to play Danka Kovinic](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/sports/tennis/us-open-draw-serena-williams.html) in the first round of the tournament Monday, with her match scheduled for 7 p.m. “I can’t think of a moment for her in her career in her life that she settled for less.” She did a quick change in the locker room and emerged into the quiet hallway, where one of her trainers was waiting. Kovinic had taken the first point of the game but then Williams won four in a row. And I almost did do the impossible: A lot of people don’t realize that I was two months pregnant when I won the Australian Open in 2017. Did Kovinic even realize as she sprayed forehands wide and deep and into the net that she’d fallen into a classic Williams trap, abandoning the angles and spins that have won her matches before? Williams made sure to show up for the party, and so did her daughter, Olympia, 4, who wore a matching outfit with her hair in beads reminiscent of a young Serena, and nearly stole the show. She has been a shadow of her former self this summer, during the singles matches that are serving as her coda after nearly a year away from the game she has loved and dedicated her life to. And on a heavy, late-summer New York evening, on the court where she captured her first Grand Slam singles title in 1999, it was enough to topple Kovinic, the sort of player Williams has rolled over in maybe an hour in so many early-round matches in so many other Grand Slams. And then another cannon serve hit her target down the center of the court and Kovinic couldn’t get it back, letting the crowd send up a roar as Williams squatted and pumped her arms.