Emerson Jones is considered one of 5 Australians to achieve the second spherical of qualifying on Day 1 on the US Open.
New York, USA, 19 August 2025 | Darren Walton, AAP
Teenage prodigy Emerson Jones is considered one of 5 Australians by way of to the second spherical on the primary day of US Open qualifying in New York.
Bidding to make a Grand Slam fundamental draw for the primary time exterior the Australian Open, Jones upset American tenth seed Bernarda Pera 6-1 4-6 6-2 to notch her maiden win at Flushing Meadows.
After reaching the ultimate spherical of qualifying at Wimbledon, the previous junior world No.1 subsequent faces Brazilian Laura Pigossi.
Astra Sharma and Maddison Inglis be part of Jones within the second spherical of girls’s qualifying after their matches on Tuesday morning (AEST). Sharma defeated Serbian Lola Radivojevic 7-5 6-4, whereas Inglis ousted Storm Hunter 6-3 6-4 in an all-Australian affair.
James Duckworth and James McCabe superior to the second spherical of males’s qualifying.
Duckworth, the No.5 seed, downed Argentine Facundo Bagnis 6-4 6-2, whereas McCabe rallied for a 6-3 6-7 (2) 6-4 win over Italian Francesco Maestrelli.
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Eight extra Australians, together with Bernard Tomic and Daria Saville, will open their qualifying campaigns on Wednesday.
Again as much as world No.169, 32-year-old Tomic performs American Patrick Kypson in his quest to qualify for a Grand Slam fundamental draw for the primary time since Australian Open 2021.
The 2009 US Open junior champion has not featured within the Flushing Meadows fundamental attract 9 years. Nonetheless, Tomic arrives in New York in sturdy kind, having reached two Challenger finals within the area of three weeks in Lexington, in the USA and Barranquilla, Colombia.
The qualifying contenders hope to hitch 14 Australian direct entrants, led by males’s world No.8 Alex de Minaur.
AUSSIES IN ACTION: US OPEN
TODAY’S RESULTS
Girls’s qualifying singles, first spherical
Emerson Jones (AUS) d [10] Bernarda Pera (USA) 6-1 4-6 6-2
Maddison Inglis (AUS) d Storm Hunter (AUS) 6-3 6-4
Astra Sharma (AUS) d Lola Radivojevic (SRB) 7-5 6-4
Tara Wuerth (CRO) d Arina Rodionova (AUS) 6-1 7-5
Males’s qualifying singles, first spherical
[5] James Duckworth (AUS) d Facundo Bagnis (ARG) 6-4 6-2
James McCabe (AUS) d Francesco Maestrelli (ITA) 6-3 6-7(2) 6-4
Hugo Grenier (FRA) d Omar Jasika (AUS) 6-7(3) 6-3 6-3
COMING UP ON DAY 2
Girls’s qualifying singles, first spherical
Daria Saville (AUS) v Jule Niemeier (GER) – First match, Court docket 5
[27] Priscilla Hon (AUS) v Nuria Brancaccio (ITA) – First match, Court docket 6
[19] Olivia Gadecki (AUS) v Anouk Koevermans (NED) – Third match, Court docket 13
Lizette Cabrera (AUS) v Oleksandra Oliynykova (UKR) – Third match, Court docket 16
Destanee Aiava (AUS) v [8] Sara Bejlek (CZE) – Fourth match, Court docket 12
Males’s qualifying singles, first spherical
Jason Kubler (AUS) v George Loffhagen (GBR) – Second match, Court docket 5
Alex Bolt (AUS) v Oliver Crawford (GBR) – Third match, Court docket 5
Bernard Tomic (AUS) v Patrick Kypson (USA) – Fourth match, Court docket 11
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