US Open: American crowd wills Pera over the line against Wang

Bernarda Pera came back from a set down against China’s Xiyu Wang 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2 at the US Open in New York on Wednesday evening to make the third round.

After dropping the opening set, the home crowd got in behind Pera, seeing her through a tight second set tiebreak before the American ran away with the final set 6-2.

Pera, ranked No 73, will play the winner of the match between Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 20 seed, and Russian Elina Avanesyan next. Earlier in the US Open, the American defeated Russian Veronika Kudermetova, the No 16 seed (7-5, 6-4).

Wang, ranked No 95, edged out Slovak lucky loser Viktoria Hruncakova (4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (6)) in the previous round of the Flushing Meadow tournament.

New York (Grand Slam), other second-round results (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 44.700.000, most recent results first):

• Patricia Maria Tig vs. Jessica Pegula
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Sofia Kenin
• Greet Minnen vs. Sachia Vickery
• Ons Jabeur vs. Linda Noskova
• Petra Martic vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Elina Svitolina vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
• Yanina Wickmayer vs. Madison Keys
• Jodie Burrage vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Eva Lys vs. Lucia Bronzetti
• Martina Trevisan vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Clara Burel
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Tamara Korpatsch
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Lesia Tsurenko
• Qinwen Zheng vs. Kaia Kanepi
• Yafan Wang vs. Katie Boulter
• Petra Kvitova vs. Caroline Wozniacki
• Jelena Ostapenko vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Peyton Stearns vs. Clara Tauson
• Elena Rybakina vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
• Jennifer Brady vs. Magda Linette
• Lin Zhu beat Victoria Azarenka (18): 6-3, 6-3
• Sorana Cirstea (30) beat Anna Kalinskaya: 6-3, 6-4
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Daria Saville: 6-3, 6-4
• Karolina Muchova (10) beat Magdalena Frech: 6-3, 6-3
• Anna Karolina Schmiedlova beat Rebeka Masarova: 7-6, 6-2
• Xinyu Wang beat Sara Sorribes Tormo: 5-7, 6-3, 6-4
• Coco Gauff (6) beat Mirra Andreeva: 6-3, 6-2
• Belinda Bencic (15) beat Yuriko Miyazaki (Q): 6-3, 6-3
• Kaja Juvan (Q) beat Lauren Davis: 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-3
• Taylor Townsend beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (19): 7-6 (1), 7-5
• Elise Mertens (32) beat Danielle Collins: 3-6, 7-6 (7), 6-1