Diego Schwartzman, ninth seeded, John Isner (16th) and Dusan Lajovic (18th), fell on Monday in the first round of the US Open against opponents theoretically affordable for them. Especially painful was the Argentine's defeat, which inexplicably complicated life against the British Cameron Norrie (76th in the world) after winning the first two sets with some ease (6-3, 6-4, 6-2, 6-1 and 7-5). The American lost to his compatriot Steve Johnson (6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3 and 7-6 (3)). And the Serb, for his part, put up less resistance against Belarusian Egor Gerasimov (72nd), who beat him 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 and 6-4.
Schwartzman lost his strength and shot unforced errors to 81, with some pretty bad percentages on serve against an opponent who has taken his measure since he beat him last year in Acapulco. Lajovic lacked aggressiveness and was not very fine with his serves against a grown rival who placed 41 winners with 11 aces. Norrie will be seen in the second round with the Argentine Federico Coria and Gerasimov, with the Australian Jordan Thompson. In a gunfighting duel, Johnson withstood Isner's 52 aces and he posted 22 to defend himself and beat the Greensboro giant in the final tiebreaker, who added a total of 91 winners that did not prevent his defeat. Johnson will try to advance further against Lithuanian Berankis.
Zverev, Shapovalov and Goffin, go ahead
Alexander Zverev found himself in a sizable brown when the draw for the draw paired with US Open and Wimbledon finalist Kevin Anderson. Caprices of fate and the low protected ranking of the South African, who was out for several months due to injury and stood up, but could not with the German (7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-3 and 7-5). After overcoming the difficult commitment in the war of direct aces (18 for him and 20 for Anderson), Zverev will also try to overcome, and it may be easier for him, the American guest Brandon Nakashima, although he was able to overcome the Italian Paolo Lorenzi (6-3, 6-2 and 7-6 (3)). Who did not disappoint the first time was Denis Shapovalov (12th favorite), who got rid of the American promise Sebastian Korda (6-4, 4-6, 6-3 and 6-2) and he will meet the Korean Kwon. David Goffin (8th) had a poisoned debut against the American giant Reilly Opelka, who had just played the quarterfinals in Cincinnati. But the Belgian held on in the tiebreaker of the first set and then recovered from the loss of the second to confirm his victory in four (7-6 (2), 3-6, 6-1 and 6-4). After taking revenge on Opelka, who beat him last year in Basel, in the second round he will meet the South African Lloyd Harris. Who is still very fit is Filip Krajinovic (26th), who passed over the Swede Mikael Ymer (6-2, 7-6 (3) and 6-3) and will face the local Marcos Giron.
The Frenchman Adrian Mannarino (32nd) also advanced, who beat the Italian Lorenzo Sonego by 6-1, 6-4, 2-6 and 6-3 and will run into the local Jack Sock, who was squeezed to win the Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas by 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 4-6 and 7-6 (2) in a duel of tennis players in low hours. Local Taylor Fritz (19th seed) brought USTA tennis a cheer with his victory against the German Koepfer by 6-7 (7), 6-3, 6-2 and 6-4 in a very worked match in which he placed 15 aces. His rival in the next phase will be Frenchman Gilles Simon.
Gesta by Christian Garín
Christian Garín, the 13th seed at the US Open, was close to leaving for home on the first day, but he held on tightly to a match in which he was two sets behind against the American Ulises Blanch and came back to win 4-6, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 and 6-2 in more than three hours of battle. The Chilean dispatched 56 winners and took advantage of his opponent's 64 unforced errors to eat up the ground and move on to the second round like last year. In it he will fight with the Kazakh Kukushkin.
Results of the day.