Karolina Pliskova had a poisoned cross in the second round against a player with a circumstantially low ranking (50th), but with enough level to scare anyone: Caroline Garcia. And the Frenchwoman, who was top-10 at the time, lowered herself to the US Open's number one favorite, a player used to going far in New York, who had reached at least the knockout stages in her last four appearances. He also did it in two sets: 6-1 and 7-6 (2). It gave the impression in the second round that the Czech would come back, but Garcia cut off her reaction in the bud and will be the one to play in the third round. He will do it against the American Jennifer Brady (28th), that in one of the American duels of the day, he took revenge against Bellis, who had beaten him in Sydney 2018, and won 6-1 and 6-2 in the blink of an eye (51 minutes).
The first matches of Wednesday's matchday in the US Open women's draw yielded favorable results for some of the favorites. Anett Kontaveit (14th), Petra Martic (8th), Angelique Kerber (17th) and Petra Kvitova (6th) advanced to the third round without undue difficulties, while Elena Rybakina (11th), Marketa Vondrousova (12th), Allison Riske (13th ) and Anastasija Sevastova (31st) fell with some crash.
Estonia Kontaveit was the first to dispatch her match. She won 6-4 and 6-1 in 73 minutes against the Slovenian Juvan, a 19-year-old teenager who had placed 35 winners in her first-round duel by American Arconada. She remained at 16 against Kontaveit, who will face the Polish Magda Linette (24th), who beat the Montenegrin Kovinic (6-1, 6-7 (2) and 7-6 (4). The Croatian Martic, who had already beaten Bondarenko three years ago at Roland Garros, she beat one of the seven mothers in the table by 6-3 and 6-4 and will meet the Russian Gracheva, who continues after coming back against the French Mladenovic, 30th favorite, (1-6, 7-6 (2) and 6-0). The German Kerber, already a veteran who disputes her 50th Grand Slam, had a first placid against her compatriot Friedsam and had a worse time in the second, which was decided in the tiebreaker (6-3 and 7-6 (6)). His opponent will be from the ground: Ann Li, who downed another of the favorites, Riske (13th) by beating him with great force 6-0 and 6-3. The Czech Kvitova, who is pursuing the achievement of reaching at least the semifinals of the US Open for the first time, beat the Ukrainian Kozlova (7-6 (3) and 6-2) and will run into the American Pegula.
Other seeds that gave the sand they were Rybakina, Vondrousova and Sevastova. The Kazakh could not control Shelby Rogers' aggressive play and fell 7-5, 6-1. The American will meet her compatriot Madison Brengle, who could (6-2, 6-3) with the Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska (19th). The Czech lost and did so with surprising ease against Sasnovich: 6-1 and 6-2 in 65 minutes. The Belarusian will face Yuliya Putintseva (23rd), who beat Belarusian Lapko 6-3. The Latvian became entangled with the young Ukrainian Kostyuk, who won 6-3 and 7-6 (5) and will run into a flood Osaka, which improves at times and had no problem to give a good account of the Italian Camila Giorgi (6 -1 and 6-2).
Results of the day.