US Open: Mertens goes the distance against qualifier, to meet Collins next

Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 32 seed, moved into the second round of the US Open by edging out Swede qualifier Mirjam Bjorklund 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3) at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Monday.

Mertens, ranked No 32, will play American Danielle Collins next, who raced past Fruhvirtova in under an hour today. Mertens will need to tighten up her second serve if she’s to have a shot against Collins, with the Belgian losing 67 percent of her second serve points against Bjorklund today.

New York (Grand Slam), other first-round matches (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 44,700,000, most recent results first):

• Maryna Zanevska vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Greet Minnen vs. Venus Williams
• Ana Bogdan vs. Sofia Kenin
• Anna Blinkova vs. Jodie Burrage
• Sachia Vickery vs. Donna Vekic
• Lucia Bronzetti vs. Barbora Krejcikova
• Robin Montgomery vs. Eva Lys
• Barbora Strycova vs. Kaia Kanepi
• Qinwen Zheng vs. Nadia Podoroska
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Fiona Crawley
• Clara Tauson vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Caroline Dolehide vs. Clara Burel
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Alycia Parks
• Patricia Maria Tig vs. Rebecca Marino
• Elina Svitolina vs. Anna-Lena Friedsam
• Peyton Stearns vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Camila Giorgi vs. Jessica Pegula
• Tatjana Maria vs. Petra Martic
• Yanina Wickmayer vs. Vera Zvonareva
• Na-Lae Han vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Martina Trevisan vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Elsa Jacquemot vs. Lesia Tsurenko
• Caroline Garcia vs. Yafan Wang
• Arantxa Rus vs. Madison Keys
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Linda Noskova vs. Madison Brengle
• Ons Jabeur vs. Camila Osorio
• Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Tamara Korpatsch
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Claire Liu
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Leylah Fernandez
• Katie Boulter vs. Diane Parry
• Tatiana Prozorova vs. Caroline Wozniacki
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Magda Linette: monday
• Kayla Day vs. Sorana Cirstea: monday
• Olivia Gadecki vs. Mirra Andreeva: monday
• Laura Siegemund vs. Coco Gauff
• Petra Kvitova vs. Cristina Bucsa: monday
• Jelena Ostapenko vs. Jasmine Paolini: monday
• Alize Cornet vs. Elina Avanesyan: monday
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Katerina Siniakova: monday
• Ajla Tomljanovic beat Panna Udvardy: 3-6, 6-2, 6-4
• Xiyu Wang beat Viktoria Hruncakova (LL): 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (6)
• Jennifer Brady beat Kimberly Birrell (LL): 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Lin Zhu beat Mayar Sherif: 6-3, 7-5
• Kaja Juvan (Q) beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto (29): 6-2, 7-5
• Xinyu Wang beat Katie Volynets (Q): 6-3, 6-4
• Elena Rybakina (4) beat Marta Kostyuk: 6-2, 6-1
• Yuriko Miyazaki (Q) beat Margarita Betova: 6-3, 6-3
• Danielle Collins beat Linda Fruhvirtova: 6-2, 6-0
• Bernarda Pera beat Veronika Kudermetova (16): 7-5, 6-4
• Sara Sorribes Tormo beat Anhelina Kalinina (28): 6-4, 7-5
• Beatriz Haddad Maia (19) beat Sloane Stephens: 6-2, 5-7, 6-4
• Lauren Davis beat Danka Kovinic: 6-2, 6-2
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Rebecca Peterson: 6-0, 6-1
• Rebeka Masarova beat Maria Sakkari (8): 6-4, 6-4
• Anna Karolina Schmiedlova beat Kateryna Baindl: 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
• Taylor Townsend beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-4, 6-2
• Magdalena Frech beat Emma Navarro: 7-6 (10), 1-6, 6-2
• Karolina Muchova (10) beat Storm Hunter (WC): 6-4, 6-0
• Belinda Bencic (15) beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 6-2, 6-4
• Victoria Azarenka (18) beat Fiona Ferro (WC): 6-1, 6-2
• Daria Saville beat Clervie Ngounoue (WC): 6-0, 6-2