If you're British
then day 1 at Flushing Meadows was a great day for you. Laura
Robson began her quest against Spain's Dominguez Lino who
had beaten Robson earlier this year on clay. The first set consisted
of breaks of serves with double faults but thanks to some blistering
shots by Robson she went on to take it 75. From there on she never
looked back with a very impressive 75 60 victory. Quoting the
BBC after the match Robson said:-
"I'm
really happy with the way that I played today," Robson told BBC
Radio 5 live.
"Especially
in the second set, I really felt like I got a rhythm in the rallies,
played very patiently, but then took my chance when the opportunity
arose."
For the first time
in a long time the most talked about male British tennis player isn't
Andy Murray but Birmingham lad Dan
Evans who caused the
biggest upset of the tournament so far. Playing beautiful tennis and
powerful shots, the British qualifier produced a fantastic 64 64 62
win over 11th seed Nishikori
to give the 23 year old his biggest career win so far. Evans had
always been such a talented player and has beaten top 100 players in
the Davies Cup before so it is good to see him to finally be able to
produce all this promise he has on the main tour.Quoting the BBC
Evans said after the match:-"It's
definitely a good one," said Evans. "That was pretty good
out there to play so well and against someone so highly ranked.
"I
felt pretty confident all through the week, and that was a good
match. I wasn't worried"
Elsewhere Rafael
Nadal began his quest to the title with a easy 64 62 62 win over
American Ryan Harrison. This has now increase Nadals win-loss
on hard surface this year to 16-0 so far. Richard Gasquet had
a similarly easy win against Russell from America winning 63
64 62 and 4th seed Ferrer came thought 75 63 62
against a potential future tennis star and the current junior world
number 1 Nick Kyrgios. There was six five setter matches on
days one with two of them resulting in seeded players being knocked
out. Andy Murrays Canadian conqueror Gulbis lost a close match
against world 88 Austrian Andreas Haider-Maurer (63 36 61 67
46) and 27th seed Fernando Verdasco lost of of Croatian Dodig
(36 57 61 64 36). Some other wins includes controversy prone Bernard
Tomic, Feliciano Lopez, Tommy Robredo and
Dimitry Trusunov. 
Meanwhile in the
women's draw defending champion Serena Williams blasted her
way into the second round destroying former French open champion
Schiavone 60 61 (with Williams winning the first ten games in
a row). Up next for Williams is Kazakhstan's Galina Voskoboeva who
beated Romanian Niculescu 64 63. Serena will be joined in
round 2 by sister Venus who eased past wimbledon semi finalist
Kirsten Flipkens 61 62. There was also easy wins for third
seed Radwanska (61 62 against Soler Espinosa), 9th seed
Jankovic (63 64 against Madison keys) and Carla
Suarez-Navarros double beagle against Laura Davis (60 60).
Sloane Stephens had a much harder time scrapping past
Luxembourg's Mandy Minella 46 63 76(75). Over wins
includes Angelique Kerber, Sabrine Lisicki and
jamie Hampton.
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