The 19-year-old American Coco Gauff, seeded number six in this tournament, faces from 6:00 p.m. (French time) the Russian Mirra Andreeva for the first match of the day at the central Flushing Meadows. For the second match on the Arthur Ashe, the one who is guaranteed to become world number one again at the end of the tournament, Novak Djokovic, will have to get rid of the Spaniard Bernabe Zapata to reach the third round.
In the night session, it is the American Frances Tiafoe as well as Petra Kvitova, opposed to the returning Caroline Wozniacki, who will play on the largest tennis court in the world.
On the Louis Armstrong court, from 5 p.m., the first match of the day pits Belgian Elise Mertens against American Danielle Collins. World number one Iga Swiatek will play her place in the third round against Australian Daria Saville. Winner of the 2020 edition of the US Open, Dominic Thiem will meet the American Ben Shelton.
The winner of Wimbledon last year, Elena Rybakina and seeded number four in this tournament, also meets an Australian, Ajla Tomljanovic for the first match of the night session. Another American, Taylor Fritz, will end the day on the Louis Armstrong by facing the Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas.
On the French side, Hugo Gaston will face the Serbian Laslo Djere, Benjamin Bonzi will have to beat the American Christopher Eubanks to continue the New York adventure. Adrian Mannarino will play against the Hungarian Marozsan while Titouan Droguet will face the Czech Jakub Mensik.
The program for this 3rd day of the US Open:
Court Arthur-Ashe (start at 6:00 p.m.)
Mirra Andreeva (RUS) – Coco Gauff (USA/tête de série N.6)
Bernabe Zapata (ESP) – Novak Djokovic (SRB/N.2)
(not before 01:00 Thursday) Sebastian Ofner (AUT) – Frances Tiafoe (USA/10)
Petra Kvitova (JUN/N.11) – Caroline Wozniacki (DEN)
. Court Louis-Armstrong (start at 5:00 p.m.)
Elise Mertens (BEL/N.32) – Danielle Collins (USA)
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Dominic Thiem (AUT) – Ben Shelton (USA)
(pas avant 01:00 a.m. Thursday) Elena Rybakina (KAZ/N.4) – Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS)
Juan Pablo Varillas (PER) – Taylor Fritz (USA)
. Grandstand (start at 5:00 p.m.)
Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE/N.7) – Dominic Stricker (SUI)
Victoria Azarenka (BLR/N.18) – Lin Zhu (CHN)
(pas avant 23h00) Casper Ruud (NOR/N.5) – Zhizhen Zhang (CHN)
. Court 17 (start at 11:00 a.m.)
Taylor Townsend (USA) – Beatriz Haddad (BRA/N.19)
Benjamin Bonzi (FRA) – Christopher Eubanks (USA/N.28)
Tommy Paul (USA/14) – Roman Safiullin (RUS)
(not before midnight) Jennifer Brady (USA) – Magda Linette (POL/N.24)