Fourth seed Badosa stunned by Martic in second round at Flushing Meadows

Fourth seed Paula Badosa became another high-profile casualty at the US Open as she was beaten 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-2 by Croatia’s Petra Martic in the second round on Thursday.

The Spaniard pinched the first set on the tiebreak but was then outplayed by the world No 54, who will play former world No 1 Victoria Azarenka next.

Badosa is the third top-four seed to go out, joining No 2 Anett Kontaveit and No 3 Maria Sakkari on the sidelines.

Ahead of her victory, the Croat won against Russian Varvara Gracheva (6-4, 7-6 (3)). Badosa, ranked No 4, beat Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko (3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3) in the previous round.

New York City (Grand Slam), other second-round results (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 40.560.000, most recent results first):

• Cristina Bucsa vs. Danielle Collins
• Kaia Kanepi vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Clara Burel vs. Alison Van Uytvanck
• Garbine Muguruza vs. Linda Fruhvirtova
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Alize Cornet vs. Katerina Siniakova: thursday
• Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Yue Yuan: thursday
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Qinwen Zheng: thursday
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Petra Kvitova
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Sloane Stephens: 6-3, 6-2
• Jule Niemeier beat Yulia Putintseva: 6-4, 6-3
• Jessica Pegula (8) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 6-4, 6-4
• Belinda Bencic (13) beat Sorana Cirstea: 3-6, 7-5, 6-2
• Victoria Azarenka beat Marta Kostyuk: 6-2, 6-3
• Lauren Davis beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (28): 0-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5)
• Bianca Andreescu beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (15): 6-2, 6-4
• Liudmila Samsonova beat Leylah Fernandez (14): 6-3, 7-6 (3)
• Aleksandra Krunic beat Barbora Krejcikova (23): 2-6, 6-4, 6-2
• Serena Williams beat Anett Kontaveit (2): 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-2
• Ajla Tomljanovic beat Evgeniya Rodina: 1-6, 6-2, 7-5
• Caroline Garcia (17) beat Anna Kalinskaya: 6-3, 6-1
• Coco Gauff (12) beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse: 6-2, 7-6 (4)
• Dalma Galfi beat Harriet Dart: 6-4, 6-0
• Veronika Kudermetova (18) beat Maryna Zanevska: 6-2, 6-3
• Rebecca Marino beat Daria Snigur (Q): 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Madison Keys (20) beat Camila Giorgi: 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (6)
• Shuai Zhang beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova: 7-5, 6-1
• Alison Riske-Amritraj (29) beat Camila Osorio: 6-4, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5)
• Ons Jabeur (5) beat Elizabeth Mandlik (WC): 7-5, 6-2
• Xiyu Wang beat Maria Sakkari (3): 3-6, 7-5, 7-5
• Shelby Rogers (31) beat Viktoria Kuzmova (Q): 7-5, 6-1

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