US Open: Second seed Alcaraz steamrolls into third round
The Spaniard will play Italian Luciano Darderi, the No 32 seed, in the next round
Carlos Alcaraz, US Open 2025
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Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz, the second seed, reached the third round of the US Open by easily getting past Italian Mattia Bellucci in New York on Wednesday.
The world No 2, who could leave New York as the world’s top-ranked player, won 6-1, 6-0, 6-3 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
The Spaniard will play Italian Luciano Darderi, the No 32 seed, next for a spot in the fourth round.
In the previous round of the event, the 22-year-old defeated American Reilly Opelka (6-4, 7-5, 6-4).
Bellucci, ranked No 65, benefited from the abandonment of Chinese Juncheng Shang (7-6, 1-6, 6-3, 3-0) in the first round of the tournament.
New York (Grand Slam), other second-round matches (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 90,000,000):
- Luciano Darderi beat Eliot Spizzirri (WC): 6-0, 7-6 (3), 2-6, 6-4
- Frances Tiafoe (17) beat Martin Damm (Q): 6-4, 7-5, 6-7 (8), 7-5
- Ugo Blanchet (Q) beat Jakub Mensik (16): 6-7 (2), 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7)
- Arthur Rinderknech beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (18): 6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Cameron Norrie beat Francisco Comesana: 7-6 (5), 6-3, 6-7, 7-6 (4)
- Benjamin Bonzi beat Marcos Giron: 2-6, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4
- Taylor Fritz (4) beat Lloyd Harris (Q): 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2, 6-4
- Raphael Collignon beat Casper Ruud (12): 6-4, 3-6, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5
- Tomas Machac (21) beat Joao Fonseca: 7-6 (4), 6-2, 6-3
- Novak Djokovic (7) beat Zachary Svajda (Q): 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-3, 6-1
- Jiri Lehecka (20) beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry: 3-6, 6-0, 6-2, 6-4
- Jerome Kym (Q) beat Brandon Nakashima (30): 4-6, 7-6 (2), 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (8)
- Zizou Bergs beat Jack Draper (5): W/O
- Nuno Borges vs. Tommy Paul
- Alexander Zverev vs. Jacob Fearnley
- Shintaro Mochizuki vs. Alex De Minaur
- Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Daniel Altmaier
- Roman Safiullin vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
- Alexander Bublik vs. Tristan Schoolkate
- Gabriel Diallo vs. Jaume Munar
- Jannik Sinner vs. Alexei Popyrin
- Leandro Riedi vs. Francisco Cerundolo
- Karen Khachanov vs. Kamil Majchrzak
- Jenson Brooksby vs. Flavio Cobolli
- Valentin Royer vs. Denis Shapovalov
- Tristan Boyer vs. Andrey Rublev
- Adam Walton vs. Chak Lam Coleman Wong
- Lorenzo Musetti vs. David Goffin
- Ben Shelton vs. Pablo Carreno Busta
- Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Holger Rune
- Jordan Thompson vs. Adrian Mannarino
