US Open 2023: Casper Ruud fights previous Emilio Nava, Elena Rybakina dominates Marta Kostyuk into second spherical

2022 runner-up Casper Ruud needed to struggle arduous towards Emilio Nava within the US Open 2023 males’s singles Round 1 match on Monday, August 27. But ultimately, he received the match 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-5) in three hours and 17 minutes.

At 4-4, it was even stevens within the fourth set tie-breaker, however Ruud introduced forth all his expertise to endge previous Nava, who was not prepared to throw within the towel simply by any stretch of the creativeness.

Nava obtained Ruud on the mat by smashing a shocking 72 winners. Ruud, however, hit 27 of them and located it robust to go previous the end line. However, the truth that he made 21 unforced errors labored in his favour huge time. Nava performed attacking tennis and ended up making 49 unforced errors.

Ruud will subsequent face China’s Zhizhen Zhang within the second spherical.

ELENA RYBAKINA CRUSIES

Elena Rybakina had it fairly simple in her first-round match towards Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk. The star from Kazakhstan received the match 6-2, 6-1 and it took her solely an hour and 16 minutes to return up trumps.

Rybakina struggled a wee bit along with her second serves and it was evident from the 2 double faults she made. However, her first serve win proportion of 75 helped her huge time. Moreover, she smashed 26 winners in comparison with Kostyuk’s 19.

Rybakina is subsequent scheduled to cross swords with the winner of the match between Hungary’s Panna Udvardy and Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic.

Edited By:

sabyasachi chowdhury

Published On:

Aug 29, 2023