New York (AFP)

Exit Barrère, Mladenovic and Puglie, Chardy badly manhandled, Pair disputed: besides the qualification of Fiona Ferro, the 2nd round of the French at the US Open was very badly committed Thursday, while waiting for Monfils for the victory and Hoang for the show against Kyrgios.

In total, ten Tricolores are looking for a place in the 3rd round on this day, globally dense due to the postponement of 22 singles the day before because of the rain.

First to try his luck, Barrère, 109th in the world and qualifying, did not weigh heavily against the Belgian David Goffin (15th). "Today I was a little slower than usual, I did a little less well, and it does not forgive against a player of this level who plays very well for a while. rather logical and it was complicated, "commented the 25-year-old Frenchman.

"I always tried to fight, but I did not have too many solutions, I saw that he did not miss anything, I soon felt it was going to be very complicated," he admitted.

After his heroic qualification in the first round against Cameron Norrie (62), he lost this time in 1h26 (6-2, 6-2, 6-2).

That was less time than it took for Fiona Ferro (74) to beat Kristina Mladenovic (54), 6-4, 6-7 (3/7), 6-3.

However confident after her victory in the first round against the former world No.1 and winner of the 2016 US Open Angelique Kerber, Mladenovic lost in 2.5 hours.

- Ferro in progress -

"I do not take anything away from Fiona's performance, I think she's progressing well, she's making her way, she's gained a little more confidence with her first title (Lausanne), I'm not taking away from her performance, but I would have played a little better it would have changed a lot of things, "commented Mladenovic obviously very disappointed.

Aged 22, Ferro, who will play for the first time a third round in Grand Slam, had lost his previous two confrontations with Mladenovic, the last in the second round of Roland Garros in May.

Then, it is Lucas Pouille (26th) who left Flushing Meadows prematurely. The formidable honor to challenge Roger Federer in the third round is Daniel Evans (58) who won 6-4, 6-3, 6-7 (4/7), 6-4.

This year, Apulia reached the semi-finals in Australia earlier this year and the quarter-finals at the Cincinnati Masters 1000 this summer, eliminated twice by Novak Djokovic. Last year at Flushing Meadows he had reached the 3rd lap.

- Osaka is back in the game -

At 15:00 (21:00 French), Benoit Paire led 2 sets to 1 against Aljaz Bedene and Jérémy Chardy ran after the score against Stan Wawrinka, who led 2 sets to 1.

Besides the expected match of Gael Monfils against Marius Copil, the highlight of the show for the French is expected at the end of the program on the Grandstand where Antoine Hoang (104th) will face the whimsical Nick Kyrgios (30th).

The Australian is again under investigation for inappropriate remarks about ATP, which he called "corrupt" in a press conference after his first round. He had softened his remarks a few hours later, but ATP maintained its procedure.

As for the title contenders, Naomi Osaka, struggling in her first round, had less trouble in the second to eliminate Poland's Magda Linette (53) 6-2, 6-4.

The defending champion, whose world throne is at stake at Flushing Meadows, took half the time to dismiss Linette (1:11) that he had needed the previous round (2:28) against Anna Blinkova who had taken a sleeve.

Rafael Nadal will play against Thanasi Kokkinakis (203rd) the last match of the night session on the court Athur-Ashe where he will be preceded by Simona Halep who wants to "dream big" after his title at Wimbledon.

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