US Open: American Li upsets 16th seed Bencic in second round

American Ann Li reached the third round of the US Open by winning against Swiss Belinda Bencic, the No 16 seed, 6-3, 6-3 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Wednesday.

Li, ranked No 69, will play Australian qualifier Priscilla Hon next for a spot in the fourth round.

The American edged out Slovak Rebecca Sramkova (4-6, 6-2, 6-4) ahead of her win today.

In the previous round, Bencic, ranked No 18, defeated Chinese qualifier Shuai Zhang (6-3, 6-3).

New York (Grand Slam), other second-round matches (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 90,000,000):

• Amanda Anisimova vs. Maya Joint
• Donna Vekic vs. Coco Gauff
• Jaqueline Cristian vs. Ashlyn Krueger
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
• Renata Zarazua vs. Diane Parry
• Anastasia Zakharova vs. Laura Siegemund
• Hailey Baptiste vs. Naomi Osaka
• Sorana Cirstea vs. Karolina Muchova
• Magdalena Frech vs. Peyton Stearns
• Zeynep Sonmez vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Suzan Lamens vs. Iga Swiatek
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Xinyu Wang
• Maria Sakkari vs. Anna Bondar
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Viktorija Golubic
• Linda Noskova vs. Eva Lys
• Aryna Sabalenka vs. Polina Kudermetova
• Elsa Jacquemot vs. Leylah Fernandez: wednesday
• McCartney Kessler vs. Marketa Vondrousova: wednesday
• Jasmine Paolini (7) beat Iva Jovic: 6-3, 6-3
• Mirra Andreeva (5) beat Anastasia Potapova: 6-1, 6-3
• Elise Mertens (19) beat Lulu Sun: 6-2, 6-3
• Priscilla Hon beat Liudmila Samsonova (17): 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
• Taylor Townsend beat Jelena Ostapenko (25): 7-5, 6-1
• Elena Rybakina (9) beat Tereza Valentova (Q): 6-3, 7-6 (7)
• Barbora Krejcikova beat Moyuka Uchijima: 6-4, 6-2
• Jessica Pegula (4) beat Anna Blinkova: 6-1, 6-3
• Cristina Bucsa beat Alexandra Eala: 6-4, 6-3
• Victoria Azarenka beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-3, 6-3
• Emma Navarro (10) beat Catherine McNally (WC): 6-2, 6-1
• Emma Raducanu beat Janice Tjen (Q): 6-2, 6-1

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