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Wednesday, August 30, 2023

US.2- Ons the Edge of Glory


Well, it's that time of year again. Time for Ons Jabeur to rise, or fall... but always persevere.



If or when Jabeur ever lifts a slam trophy -- in New York, London or elsewhere, in less than two weeks or ten months or a year from now -- Tuesday will prove to be yet another experience that provides the context and deep background that will make the moment oh so special. For everyone.

We've seen such similar moments before over the years, only they've involved players with names like Jana or Na or Caroline, and if the instant comes when the Tunisian falls to *her* knees (with tears, as there would be a lot of those, but also clenched fists and smiles) and her entire life and tennis career flashes before her own mind's eye as well as those of everyone else, then Jabeur's sometimes-rocky, brilliantly soulful, always entertaining path to that moment will have been paved with the good intentions of days like today.

Make no mistake, the struggle is real. Only on Day 2 Jabeur's struggle wasn't trying to get over the proverbial hump in a slam final -- in which she's played, and lost, three times over the past fourteen months, with her 0-3 career mark just *one* additional defeat away from tying for the *most* frustrating streak of slam final losses to start a career in tennis history -- nor being hampered by an ill-timed injury, it was dealing with the combination of feeling ill, suffering in the New York summer heat *and* having to face an opponent in Camila Osorio who forced her to find a way around the first two obstacles without collapsing before the job was done.

Oh, yes... and this was all happening the day after Jabeur's 29th birthday.

Perhaps the key to Jabeur's winning effort on this day, aside from an indefatigable will to fight and push forward, was that she managed to grab the 1st set from the young Colombian, the U.S. Open girls' champ just four years ago.

After taking a 4-1 lead, the odds already stacked against her started to eat away at Jabeur's lead. Her double-break edge turned into a 5-4, on serve, deficit. But a game 11 break gave Jabeur the chance to serve out the set. Staving off a pair of BP, she held for 7-5 and only needed to win one more set.

After five breaks of serve in the 1st, the 2nd began with four in the first five games. Osorio held the edge at 3-1. But, again, Jabeur dug in and pulled herself back into the battle. She broke Osorio at love in game 5, then again two games later to take a 4-3 lead. Saving two BP, Jabeur held for 5-3. She saw a pair of MP chances on Osorio's serve a game later, but failed to salt away the victory, then couldn't serve out the win at 5-4. Suddenly, after being on the cusp of the 2nd Round, Jabeur had lost seven straight points as Osorio broke at love to level the set at 5-all.

After breaking Osorio at love, Jabeur served for the match again at 6-5. She fell behind love/40 and, though she got the game to deuce, dropped serve as Osorio converted BP #4 to send things to a tie-break, *perhaps* with the entire match hanging in the balance.

Having pushed herself to the physical edge just to make it (almost) through two sets, the last thing Jabeur wanted was to play a third. She took a 5-3 lead in the TB, then reached MP at 6-4. On her third attempt to complete *this* job and survive to fight another day (with a well-earned day off in-between), Jabeur finally won 7-5/7-6(4).

The match had lasted just two hours, but the Tunisian was so drenched and somewhat staggered one would have thought it'd bee longer... but the #5 seed had also proven to be just as (and more) dogged on this day.



Even as just a single chapter of an ongoing mission (and just the opening paragraph of this particular quest, as Jabeur seeks to make consecutive Open finals just as she did earlier this summer at SW19) the scenes on Louis Armstrong on Tuesday are an example of what makes an individual sport so personal, for both the athletes and the fans who follow them. The highs and lows are felt by all, and often converge to create a storyline that, under the right circumstances, *everyone* feels as if they've played a part.

Needing something a little "extra" to help pull her through today, Jabeur got it in the support of the crowd. Afterward, she personally thanked them for the assist.



Ah, but they weren't finished. In a moment that, two weeks from now or two years, will surely be part of more than one "I was there" recollection by those in the stadium, the crowd sweetly serenaded Jabeur with a belated rendition of "Happy Birthday."



It was the sort of thing that dreams are made of, and upon which great stories are built.

One of these days, maybe Ons' story will finally get the ending it deserves, one that will be *all* Jabeur's, truly.




=DAY 2 NOTES=
...while Emma Raducanu has gotten most of the attention for her inability to follow up her '21 U.S. Open title run, her fellow finalist at Flushing Meadows hasn't had an easy go of things, either.

Leylah Fernandez hasn't been unlucky enough to suffer through a series of injuries and lost time, but the Canadian hasn't really come close to replicating her brilliantly exciting run -- remember, she defeated the likes of Osaka, Kerber, Svitolina and Sabalenka (all in three sets) -- that roused the New York tennis crowds like few *ever* have in the city either before or since.

While Fernandez has successfully defended a singles title (Monterrey '22) and reached another slam QF ('22 RG), she came into Day 2 having advanced no deeper than the 2nd Round in her other five slam MD appearances since '21. She's had a few bright spots this hard court summer, qualifying in Washington, upsetting Beatriz Haddad Maia in Montreal, and reaching the QF in Cleveland, but being ranked at #67 -- *below* her now-you-see-her-now-you-don't countrywoman Bianca Andreescu (#51) despite coming to NYC with a "passable" 26-19 record on the year vs. the '19 U.S. Open champ's 15-16 mark (Andreescu withdrew from the Open this weekend w/ yet another injury) -- meant that Fernandez could *really* have used a few wins at the year's final major.

But the Draw Gods had another idea, and the Canadian's match-up with #22-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova (14-4 since RG, with two finals -- including Cleveland over the weekend -- and a title) didn't do her any favors.

Fernandez and Alexandrova battled for 3:04 in a match that could have gone either way. Alexandrova rallied from 4-2 back to win the 1st set, then Fernandez did the same after trailing 3-1 in the 2nd. The Canadian couldn't serve out the set at 5-4, but immediately broke back a game later and did so on her second attempt.

Alexandrova led 3-0 in the decider, but Fernandez ran off four straight games and served up a break at 4-3. But the final set magic that lifted her two summers ago bent back against her this time, as Alexandrova swept the final three games, two with breaks of Fernandez's serve.



The win leaves Alexandrova (now at 5-2 on the year) just one win away from locking away her best-ever slam season, *perhaps* second straight trip into the second week at a major (SW19 was her first, after starting her slam career 0-for-25), and hopefully (finally) a *secure* spot in the Top 20. The Hordette's run in Cleveland moved her inside the fence (barely, at #20) for the first time since the end of April.

...meanwhile, two recent trends continued, as Wang Yafan won and, well, Caroline Garcia lost a *whole lot* of ranking points.



The #7-seeded Garcia, a semifinalist a year ago at Flushing Meadows, will lose another 770 points with her 1st Round exit, on the heels of dropping 800+ when she failed to defend her Cincinnati title. She still has her WTAF title points to fall off by the end of the season, as it seems impossible now that she could qualify for the eight-player field once again. The loss almost assures that she'll drop out of the Top 10 for the first time in 12 months after this tournament, as she's already down to #10 in the "live" rankings.

It really is time for a Top 10 housecleaning, with Garcia (and Maria Sakkari soon?) falling out, as their rankings bear little resemblance to their current or recent (i.e. most of '23) form. These aren't the pandemic rankings, after all. Time for some more legitimate members of the club to come through the door by the end of the season.



Meanwhile, Wang's comeback season finally got a headline-worthy moment.

A former Top 50 player, she's been roughed up the last few years, missing much time and undergoing trials (like so many of the Chinese players) since the start of the pandemic in 2020. After skipping seven months of play from the end of '22 into the '23 season -- after contracting Covid, she took the time to get married -- Wang came into the new year ranked #418.

Playing mostly on the ITF circuit, Wang has been virtually unstoppable in '23. She won 24 straight matches in the spring, and has reached seven ITF finals (winning 5) over the course of the season. She just won a WTA 125 in Stanford, made it through Open qualifying and today -- with her first slam MD win since the '19 Wimbledon -- extended her latest winning streak to eleven.

57-10 on the season, Wang is 33-4 on hard courts and is currently on a 38-3 run since May. She's pretty well assured of her Top 100 return after this event.

...it wouldn't be the 2023 season, where three lucky losers have won titles and another reached the second week of Roland Garros, if we didn't get a LL 1st Round winner. Yanina Wickmayer obliged on Day 2, defeated (the-even-more) veteran Vera Zvonareva to become the fifth lucky loser to notch at least one slam win in 2023.

A 2009 U.S Open semifinalist ("WICK-mayer," remember?), this is the Belgian's first win in New York since 2017. She didn't appear in a slam MD for nearly two years while becoming a first-time mother in 2021, and since her lone Open SF fourteen years ago has reached the Round of 16 just once more (2010) in NYC, either losing in the 1r/2r or qualifying in her last eleven trips to the city.

...just like with lucky losers, it just wouldn't "feel right" if we didn't also have a match where Yulia Putintseva blew a lead. Well, wouldn't you know it.

The Kazakh, who came into this week at #78 (and might have to do some work in the fall to avoid her first season ranked outside the Top 100 since 2014), won the 1st set at love. She later led Martina Trevisan 4-2 in the 3rd set. The Italian broke and served for the match at 6-5, but Putintseva forced a TB. She led the 10-point breaker 8-7, but Trevisan swept the final three points to win 10-8, winning 0-6/7-6(0)/7-6(10-8). Putintseva out-pointed her opponent 118-108.



The victory ends Trevisan's -- (checks on this... yep, it's right) -- six-match slam losing streak since she advanced into the Roland Garros semis last year.



...in the night session, 43-year old wild card Venus Williams mades her appearance in her 24th career U.S. Open MD, 26 years after her debut, facing Belgian Greet Minnen on Ashe. After defying time for so long, Williams wasn't able to do so on this night.

Though this summer has shown that Williams, when she gets matches under her belt, *can* effectively insert herself into the fray against any opponent and make a mark -- defeating Alona Ostapenko, Veronika Kudermetova and Camila Giorgi, and pressuring Madison Keys, Zheng Qinwen and Elina Svitolina -- when her game, for whatever reason (usually some sort of injury), is hampered in any way it has the potential to produce an uncomfortable viewing experience. Tonight was one of those times.

Against an in-form Minnen, Williams wasn't able to get much power behind her shots to keep the Waffle on her heels, and that allowed the qualifier to dictate play, moving Williams around the court, utilizing drops shots and, well, none of that is in the mix for *any* Williams victory in 2023.

In her 100th U.S. Open match, and 40th night match, Williams suffered her worst career loss in the event, falling 6-1/6-1.



Still, as long as she's able, one gets the sense that this won't be Venus' last Open appearance. That day will come. Eventually. But probably not quite yet.

...with the 1st Round complete after just two days (no rain! no suspended matches!), it's time for some numbers.

As the U.S. had the most players (24) in the women's draw, it should come as no surprise that more Bannerettes will be in the *2nd* Round than those from any other nation, too. 11 advanced, but the group as a whole was under .500 (11-13).

The second and third most-abundant groups are the Hordettes (7-7) and Maidens/Crushers (6-4).

The "Revelation Ladies" honor was scooped up by the Chinese, who went 5-0 in the 1st Round as Zheng Qinwen, Zhu Lin and three Wangs (Xinyu, Xiyu and Yafan) all advanced.

Other impressive 1st Round records came from the Brits (a surprising 3-0, with Lily Miyazaki getting her maiden slam win, and Katie Boulter & Jodie Burrage going through), the Poles (3-0), Danes (2-0, w/ Last Wild Card Standing Caro) and Waffles (3-1, with only the retiring Maryna Zanevska falling).

The "Upset Queens" are still to be determined, though of the eight seeds so far ousted the U.S. women (Pera d. Kudermetova, Vickery d. Vekic) and Spaniards (Masarova d. Sakkari, Sorribes Tormo d. Kalinina) have both taken out two.

...the worst of the rest? Well, that turned out to be pretty easy, and the Open trend even extends back into the qualifying rounds for this year's "Nation of Poor Souls": France.

While a few nations had less than impressive starts in New York -- CAN 0-2, SWE 0-2, and ITA 0-3, well *until* Trevisan took out Putintseva and Bronzetti handed #12 Krejcikova her latest loss -- none have been as irrelevent as the Pastries. In the 1st Round alone, they went 1-6, with #7 Garcia leading the charge out the door. But she wasn't alone, as four of the Top 5 players in France -- #1 Garcia, #2 Gracheva, #4 Cornet and #5 Parry -- all lost their opening match. Also out in the 1st Round was a qualifier, Elsa Jacquemot, the #10-ranked Pastry. Only French #3 Clara Burel advanced.

If we extend things back into the qualifying, nine of the French Top 10 failed to win a MD match in New York (a year after Garcia was a win from the final), as the French #6 (Dodin), #7 (Ponchet), #8 (Jeanjean) and #9 (Monnet) all tried and failed to reach the MD last week in the Open's qualifying event.

...the eight teenagers in the MD went 3-5, with Mirra Andreeva (again), Linda Noskova and Coco Gauff winning; while the oldest player in the 2nd Round is 38-year old Kaia Kanepi. There were fourteen players age 33+ in the MD, and they went 7-7.

The three first-time slam MD players (Ngounoue, Prozorova and Crawley) went 0-3, but two players (Miyazaki, Lys) won their maiden slam MD matches (both in their second career MD appearances).





...NOW *THAT'S* A THING (BUT IS IT?)... ON DAY 2:





Almost every note about women's slam champions *feels* like a derogatory shot... even if it's really not. Sometimes it's difficult to tell.

But after a couple of decades of side-eye comments and outright unwarranted attacks on the women's game, the collective defensive crouch is to be expected.



See?

Now do the one where *two* players won 23 of 26 men's slam titles over a six-year stretch (2004-10), and *three* won 31 of 33 if you extend the span to eight years (2004-12). You know, "the greatest era of men's tennis" (aka what would have been called the "most top-heavy, depth-free" era ever if such a thing had happened in the WTA over the same stretch... something which was heard often during the time Serena was domianating).


...TWO SIDES OF THE SAME STORY ON DAY 2 ABOUT NIGHT 1:



The thing is, as usual, if the umpire had laid down the law early in the match this would never have become a thing. Siegemund wouldn't have looked like she was abusing the time limit rule, Gauff (and Gilbert) wouldn't have reacted to the continual slow-down, the crowd wouldn't have gotten on the German, the post-match social media commentary wouldn't have tried to drag the Williams' battle against racism in tennis into the conversation (?), causing both "Serena" and "Gauff" to trend as topics on Day 2, etc.

So many of the issues that plague the sport, at least during matches, come from umpires who refuse TO DO THEIR JOB. Of course, when one DID try to do his job at the Open (in that Serena match... you know the one -- no, not that one, the other one... no the *other* other one) he just about got chased through the streets by a torch-carrying mob. So there's that.


...A THIRD SIDE... ON DAY 2:




...SOMEONE WAS PAYING ATTENTION (kudos!) ON DAY 2:




...ONE GOODBYE, ANOTHER TO FOLLOW... ON DAY 2:




...#1 RANKING UPDATE (no, not *that* one) ON DAY 2:




...YEAH, LOSING IS BAD... ON DAY 2:

"Maybe I have to take a break. I don't know what I'm going to do, I'm suffering on the court. I'm trying to do everything to improve myself..."



Hmmm... don't play the rest of 2023, win zero titles. Do play the rest of the 2023 season... how to you say "six of one, half a dozen of the other" in Greek?

Still waiting for that retraction, by the way.

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**U.S. OPEN 1st Rd. W/L - BY NATION (alphabetical)**
0-1 - ARG
2-3 - AUS
3-1 - BEL
2-1 - BLR
1-0 - BRA
0-1 - BUL
0-2 - CAN
5-0 - CHN
0-1 - COL
1-1 - CRO
6-4 - CZE
2-0 - DEN
0-1 - EGY
2-1 - ESP
1-0 - EST
1-6 - FRA
3-0 - GBR
2-3 - GER
0-1 - GRE
0-1 - HUN
2-3 - ITA
1-1 - KAZ
0-1 - KOR
1-0 - LAT
0-1 - MNE
0-1 - NED
3-0 - POL
2-3 - ROU
7-7 - RUS
1-0 - SLO
1-0 - SUI
1-1 - SVK
0-2 - SWE
1-0 - TUN
2-3 - UKR
11-13 - USA

**RECENT U.S. OPEN "REVELATION LADIES" WINNERS**
2015 Japan
2016 Ukraine
2017 Australia
2018 Belarus
2019 United States
2020 Belarus
2021 Greece
2022 Ukraine
2023 China

**RECENT U.S. OPEN "NATIONS OF POOR SOULS"**
2016 BEL (0-4 in 1st Rd.)
2017 GER (2-7 1st Rd.; Kerber 2nd U.S. DC out 1st)
2018 SUI (1-4 in 1st Rd.; Golubic 0-6/0-6; Bacsinszky love 3rd)
2019 ESP (1-4 in 1st Rd.; seeded Muguruza and CSN/ret. out)
2020 AUS (0-5 in 1st Rd.; #1 Barty & ex-champ Stosur DNP)
2021 USA (8-14 1r; Keys/Riske out; Serena/Venus/Kenin/Brady DNP; 3/4 '17 SF)
2022 GER veterans (vets 0-3, pregnant Kerber w/d)
2023 FRA (1-6 in 1st; 9 of FRA Top 10 out Q/1r)

**RECENT U.S. OPEN "LAST WILD CARD STANDING" WINNERS**
2015 Bethanie Mattek-Sands, USA (3rd Rd.)
2016 L.Davis/USA, K.Day/USA, V.King/USA (3rd Rd.)
2017 Maria Sharapova, RUS (4th Rd.)
2018 Victoria Azarenka, BLR (3rd Rd.)
2019 Kristie Ahn, USA (4th Rd.)
2020 C.Bellis/USA, K.Scott/USA & S.Vickery/USA (2nd Rd.)
2021 0-8 in 1st Rd.
2022 Elli Mandlik, USA (2nd Rd.)
2023 Caroline Wozniacki, DEN (in 2nd Rd.)
[2023]
AO: K.Birrell/AUS, O.Gadecki/AUS, T.Townsend/USA (2nd Rd.)
RG: L.Jeanjean/FRA, E.Navarro/USA, D.Parry/FRA (2nd Rd.)
WI: Elina Svitolina, UKR (SF)
US: Caroline Wozniacki, DEN

**2023 LL WINNERS IN SLAMS**
AO - none
RG - Aliona Bolsova, ESP (2nd Rd.)
RG - Camila Osorio, COL (2nd Rd.)
RG - Elina Avanesyan, RUS (4th Rd.)
WI - Tamara Korpatsch, GER (2nd Rd.)
US - Yanina Wickmayer, BEL (in 2nd Rd.)

**2023 FIRST CAREER SLAM MD WINS (w/ career slam MD)**
-AUSTRALIAN OPEN (4)-
Anna Bondar, HUN (5th)
Olivia Gadecki, AUS (1st)
Diana Shnaider, RUS (1st)
Lucrezia Stefanini, ITA (1st)
-ROLAND GARROS (8)-
Mirra Andreeva, RUS (1st)
Elina Avanesyan, RUS (2nd)
Julia Grabher, AUT (2nd)
Emma Navarro, USA (2nd)
Linda Noskova, CZE (3rd)
Iryna Shymanovich, BLR (1st)
Peyton Stearns, USA (2nd)
Simona Waltert, SUI (1st)
-WIMBLEDON (4)-
Bai Zhuoxuan, CHN (1st)
Jodie Burrage, GBR (3rd)
Tamara Korpatsch, GER (5th)
Natalija Stevanovic, SRB (1st)
-U.S. OPEN (2)-
Eva Lys, GER (2nd)
Lily Miyazaki, GBR (2nd)

**MAIDEN CAREER SLAM MD WINS AT US - 2020-23**
2020 Ysaline Bonaventure, BEL
2020 Leylah Fernandez, CAN
2020 Varvara Gracheva, RUS
2020 Katrina Scott, USA
2020 Patricia Maria Tig, ROU
2021 Valentini Grammatikopoulou, GRE
2021 Rebeka Masarova, ESP
2022 Cristina Bucsa, ESP
2022 Linda Fruhvirtova, CZE
2022 Elli Mandlik, USA
2022 Daria Snigur, UKR
2022 Yuan Yue, CHN
2023 Eva Lys, GER
2023 Lily Miyazaki, GBR

**BACKSPIN 2023 WTA PERFORMANCE-OF-THE-MONTH WINNERS**
JAN: Sabalenka wins maiden slam at AO (2 titles, 10-0 start)
FEB: Krejcikova def. #1/#2/#3, wins Dubai
MAR/APR: Rybakina wins Indian Wells & RU at Miami
1Q...KREJCIKOVA (DUBAI)
BJK QUALIFIERS: L.Fernandez scores 3 points in CAN 3-2 win over BEL
APR: Swiatek defends Stuttgart title
MAY: Sabalenka gets first clay win over Swiatek, takes Madrid
RG: Swiatek wins third Roland Garros in four years
2Q Clay Court...SABALENKA (MADRID)
JUN: Kvitova wins Berlin
WI: Vondrousova is first unseeded Wimbledon champ
2Q Grass Court...KVITOVA (BERLIN)
JUL: Timofeeva wins Budapest as LL in 1st career MD
AUG (pre-U.S.): Gauff wins Cincinnati (def. #1 Iga in SF)

**BACKSPIN 2023 RISER-OF-THE-MONTH WINNERS**
JAN (pre-AO): Aryna Sabalenka, BLR
AO: Elena Rybakina, KAZ
FEB: Iga Swiatek, POL
MAR: Aryna Sabalenka, BLR
1Q...SABALENKA
APR: Ons Jabeur, TUN
MAY: Veronika Kudermetova, RUS
RG: Karolina Muchova, CZE
2Q Clay Court...SABALENKA
JUN: Alona Ostapenko/LAT and Madison Keys/USA
WI: Ons Jabeur, TUN
2Q Grass Court...JABEUR and ALEXANDROVA/RUS
JUL: Zheng Qinwen, CHN
AUG (pre-U.S.): Jessie Pegula, USA
[2023 Weekly RISER Award Wins]
4 - Coco Gauff, USA
4 - Beatriz Haddad Maia, BRA
4 - Veronika Kudermetova, RUS
4 - Jessie Pegula, USA
4 - Elena Rybakina, KAZ
4 - Aryna Sabalenka, BLR
3 - Ekaterina Alexandrova, RUS
3 - Belinda Bencic, SUI
3 - Anna Blinkova, RUS
3 - Ons Jabeur, TUN
3 - Alona Ostapenko, LAT
3 - Maria Sakkari, GRE
3 - Liudmila Samsonova, RUS
2 - Ana Bogdan, ROU
2 - Caroline Garcia, FRA
2 - Dasha Kasatkina, RUS
2 - Elise Mertens, BEL
2 - Karolina Muchova, CZE
2 - Jasmine Paolini, ITA
2 - Bernarda Pera, USA
2 - Mayar Sherif, EGY
2 - Iga Swiatek, POL
2 - Donna Vekic, CRO






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TOP QUALIFIER: #15 Wang Yafan/CHN
us: vick RL: chn Q: vick,minn TOP EARLY-ROUND (1r-2r): xx
TOP MIDDLE-ROUND (3r-QF): xx
TOP LATE-ROUND (SF-F): xx
TOP QUALIFYING MATCH: Q2 - Elsa Jacquemot/FRA def. #2 Diana Shnaider/RUS 6-7(5)/7-5/6-3 - down 7-6/5-3, saved 7 MP in 2nd set (trailed 5-4, 40/love)
TOP EARLY-RD. MATCH (1r-2r): xx
TOP MIDDLE-RD. MATCH (3r-QF): xx
TOP LATE-RD. MATCH (SF-F): xx
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FIRST VICTORY: #10 Karolina Muchova/CZE (def. WC Hunter)
FIRST SEED OUT: #8 Maria Sakkari/GRE (1r- lost to Masarova/ESP)
FIRST CAREER SLAM MD WINS: Eva Lys/GER, Lily Miyazaki/GBR
PROTECTED RANKING MD WINS: 1r wins: Brady/USA, Saville/AUS, Tig/ROU
LUCKY LOSER MD WINS: 1r wins: Wickmayer/BEL
UPSET QUEENS: x
REVELATION LADIES: China (5-0 1r)
NATION OF POOR SOULS: France (1-6 in 1st; 9 of FRA Top 10 out Q/1r)
CRASH & BURN: Nominee: #8 Sakkari (1r)
ZOMBIE QUEEN OF NEW YORK: x
IT ("??"): x
Ms.OPPORTUNITY: x
LAST QUALIFIER STANDING: 1r wins: Juvan/SLO, Lys/GER, Minnen/BEL, Miyazaki/GBR, Vickery/USA, Wang Yafan/CHN
LAST WILD CARD STANDING: Caroline Wozniacki/DEN (in 2r)
LAST BANNERETTE STANDING: 1r wins: Brady, Collins, Davis, Gauff, Kenin, Keys, Pegula, Pera, Stearns, Townsend, Vickery
COMEBACK: Nominee: Wozniacki
VETERAN PLAYER (KIMIKO CUP): x
DOUBLES STAR: x
BIG APPLE BANNERETTE BREAKTHROUGH: x
BROADWAY-BOUND: x
LADY OF THE EVENING: x
JUNIOR BREAKOUT: x







All for Day 2. More tomorrow.
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