US Open: Pavlyuchenkova squanders set lead against Svitolina

Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova has failed to capitalise on a set lead against No 26 seed Elina Svitolina, losing 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 to the Ukrainian at the US Open on Thursday evening.

After winning the opening set 7-5, the Russian began spraying errors under pressure from Svitolina’s heavy ground stroke game, leading the the world No 26 winning the following two sets.

Svitolina, ranked No 26, will play the winner of the match between Romanian Patricia Maria Tig and American Jessica Pegula, the No 3 seed, next.

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
• Petra Martic vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Greet Minnen vs. Sachia Vickery
• Ons Jabeur vs. Linda Noskova
• Marketa Vondrousova (9) beat Martina Trevisan: 6-2, 6-2
• Madison Keys (17) beat Yanina Wickmayer (LL): 6-1, 6-2
• Ekaterina Alexandrova (22) beat Lesia Tsurenko: 6-1, 6-3
• Clara Burel beat Karolina Pliskova (25): 6-4, 6-2
• Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Jodie Burrage: 6-3, 6-2
• Liudmila Samsonova (14) beat Tamara Korpatsch: 6-3, 6-3
• Lucia Bronzetti beat Eva Lys (Q): 6-3, 6-2
• Qinwen Zheng (23) beat Kaia Kanepi: 6-2, 3-6, 6-2
• Peyton Stearns beat Clara Tauson: 6-3, 6-0
• Katie Boulter beat Yafan Wang (Q): 5-7, 6-1, 6-4
• Caroline Wozniacki (WC) beat Petra Kvitova (11): 7-5, 7-6 (5)
• Jelena Ostapenko (20) beat Elina Avanesyan: 6-3, 5-7, 7-5
• Jennifer Brady beat Magda Linette (24): 6-1, 2-6, 6-2
• Elena Rybakina vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
• Bernarda Pera beat Xiyu Wang: 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2
• 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