US Open: Sabalenka books spot in third round against former runner-up Fernandez
The world No 1 defeated 64th-ranked Polina Kudermetova 7-6 (4), 6-2 in the second round
Aryna Sabalenka, US Open 2025
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World No 1 Aryna Sabalenka, from Belarus, moved into the third round of the US Open by defeating Russian Polina Kudermetova 7-6 (4), 6-2 in New York on Wednesday night.
Sabalenka, ranked No 1, will face Canadian Leylah Fernandez, the No 31 seed and former US Open runner-up, next at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center
The Belarusian defeated Swiss Rebeka Masarova (7-5, 6-1) in her first round match earlier in the week.
Kudermetova, ranked No 64 in the world, had come through following the retirement of Spaniard Nuria Parrizas Diaz (2-2) in the first round.
New York (Grand Slam), other second-round matches (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 90,000,000):
- Ann Li beat Belinda Bencic (16): 6-3, 6-3
- Leylah Fernandez beat Elsa Jacquemot: 2-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Marketa Vondrousova beat McCartney Kessler (32): 7-6 (7), 6-2
- 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 (Q) 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
- 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
