Medvedev's victory, Khachanov's comeback and Alexandrova's sensation: Russian tennis players successfully started at the US Open

Medvedev's victory under threat of quarantine

Daniil Medvedev qualified for the second round of the US Open.

At the same time, his participation in the US Open was almost threatened earlier.

Shortly before the match between Medvedev and Argentinean Federico Delbonis, the organizers of the tournament announced that the 17th seeded Benoit Per was diagnosed with a coronavirus, and he was forced to withdraw from the competition.

After that, all tennis players in contact with him were supposed to quarantine, including the Russian, who was doing a warm-up with Per.

However, in the end, last year's US Open finalist was allowed to enter the court and compete with the 2016 Davis Cup winner, who is 79th in the ATP personal ranking.

If last season Medvedev really needed the energy of the audience, albeit negative, but this time he easily got along without it.

The Russian tennis player on Tuesday immediately began with a series of five won games, which helped to take the first set.

In the future, he never lost his serve, and took someone else's five times.

Delbonis managed to win more and more games with each game, but not so many that the fifth racket of the world would have any problems.

Medvedev won a victory with a score of 6: 1, 6: 2, 6: 4, spending less than two hours on it.

In the second round he will be confronted by Australian Christopher O'Connell, who is 116th in the world rankings.

Khachanov's strong-willed victory and Kuznetsov's return

Following Medvedev, the rest of the Russian tennis players who played on Tuesday also stepped into the second round.

Karen Khachanov, seeded 11th, won a particularly impressive victory.

He played against Italian Yannick Sinner, winner of last year's ATP Youth Final.

The first two sets were very difficult for the Russian.

He never took someone else's serve and lost the second game in a tie-break.

Throughout his career, Khachanov won only once after such an unimportant start, but this time he managed to turn the tide.

With the score 1: 1 in the third set, the Russian won 11 of the next 12 games.

In the decisive game, Khachanov was unable to convert any of the five break points, but in the short game he was already acting confidently and was able to defeat Sinner.

Khachanov's next opponent will be his compatriot Andrei Kuznetsov.

Due to injuries, he was close to retirement, but still continued to play tennis and, thanks to the protected rating, was able to be in the Grand Slam grid for the first time in three years.

Kuznetsov was opposed by the famous American Sam Querrey, but the former 11th racket of the world failed to win at least one set from the Russian.

The Tula native became the first tennis player in 13 years to make his way to the second round of the US Open without any position in the ATP rankings.

Andrei Rublev confidently made it to the next round.

He met with 33-year-old Frenchman Jeremy Chardy, whom he has already beaten four times.

For the fifth victory, the Russian spent three sets and a little over two hours.

During this time, Rublev made 11 aces and took advantage of the same number of double errors from his opponent.

Next, the Russian is waiting for another representative of France, Gregoire Barrer, who won only nine victories at the professional level in his 26 years.

Alexandrova's victory over the former first racket of the world

Russian tennis players also won four victories.

The first on the second day of the tournament was Varvara Gracheva who coped with her rival.

She beat Spaniard Paulo Badosa and for the first time in her career moved further along the Major bracket.

Opposing in the second round she will be the 30th seeded Frenchwoman Christina Mladenovic, who was also under suspicion in connection with Peer infection.

The 117th racket of the world Margarita Gasparyan defeated the Olympic champion Monica Puig.

After a failure in the second set, when the Russian woman did not score a single point in the tie-break, she took the third game under zero.

Serena Williams will be Gasparyan's next opponent.

The twenty-three-time Grand Slam champion beat Christie Ann to win her 102nd US Open match, breaking Chris Evert's record.

Anna Kalinskaya also passed the first round barrier.

Like Gasparyan, she beat her superior rival in rating, which was Serbian Nina Stoyanovic.

Two sets were enough for the 21-year-old Russian woman to defeat her for the second victory in her career.

Next Kalinskaya will be opposed by Czech Karolina Mukhova, who did not let the eldest of the Williams sisters, Venus, enter the second round.

The American also broke the US Open record, taking part in this tournament for the 22nd time.

The previous achievement belonged to Martina Navratilova.

The main success of the day was achieved by Ekaterina Alexandrova.

She won a strong-willed victory over the Belgian Kim Clijsters, who returned to tennis for the second time and participated in the Grand Slam tournaments for the first time in eight years.

The previous comeback was triumphant for her and brought two titles at the US Open.

This time the beautiful story did not repeat itself.

Alexandrova was able to recoup after losing the first set, avoiding a tie-break in the second.

In the decisive game, the Russian woman gave up the first game, but then won six in a row and beat the former first racket of the world.

Veronika Kudermetova from an early departure was not saved by the 29th seed.

She lost to the Polish girl Iga Schwentek, giving up three games in both sets.

The Russian woman became the third seeded tennis player in two days, who finished the fight in singles.

Natalia Vikhlyantseva and Vera Zvonareva also stopped on the first lap.

They both lost to their underage rivals - 16-year-old American Katrina Scott and 17-year-old Canadian Leila Fernandez.

Lyudmila Samsonova quite unexpectedly lost to the Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova, who got to the US Open in a protected rating after a three-year break.

Vitalia Dyachenko had a chance to go further, but before the match with Olga Govortsova from Belarus, she withdrew due to a shoulder injury.

The success of the second racket and the feat of Murray

Among other events of the second day of the US Open, Andy Murray's victory stands out.

The British tennis player, who has not played in the Grand Slam singles since the 2019 Australian Open, lost the first two sets to the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka and even allowed his opponent to earn a matchball.

However, Murray managed to escape and win the next two games in a tie-break.

Before the fifth set, the Olympic champion complained of a finger injury, but nevertheless continued the meeting and won it due to a single break.

Murray won back two lost sets for the tenth time in his career.

Now the former first racket of the world is waiting for the 15th seeded Felix Auger-Allassim from Canada.

Both second rackets of the current US Open passed the first round without any problems.

It is noteworthy that two sets were enough for both of them.

Austrian Dominic Thiem met with Spaniard Jaume Munyar, who starred before the start of the third installment.

Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin gave up two games in each set of her match with Belgian Janina Wickmaier.