Wimbledon runner-up Anisimova kicks off US Open campaign with first round win

Wimbledon runner-up Amanda Anisimova, the No 8 seed, began her US Open campaign with a straight sets win over Australian Kimberly Birrell in the first round in New York on Tuesday.

The American, who is seeded in the top 8 in a Grand Slam for the first time in her career, won 6-3, 6-2 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

This was only her fourth main draw win at her home Grand Slam in six appearances.

Anisimova, ranked No 9, will face rising Australian Maya Joint next.

New York (Grand Slam), other first-round results (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 90,000,000):

• Jaqueline Cristian beat Danielle Collins: 6-2, 6-0
• Iga Swiatek (2) beat Emiliana Arango: 6-1, 6-2
• Beatriz Haddad Maia (18) beat Sonay Kartal: 6-3, 1-6, 6-1

• Suzan Lamens beat Valerie Glozman (WC): 6-4, 6-2
• Maya Joint beat Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (Q): 6-4, 7-6 (6)
• Marta Kostyuk (27) beat Katie Boulter: 6-4, 6-4
• Mirra Andreeva (5) beat Alycia Parks: 6-0, 6-1
• Karolina Muchova (11) beat Venus Williams (WC): 6-3, 2-6, 6-1
• Peyton Stearns beat Darja Semenistaja (Q): 7-5, 6-0
• Zeynep Sonmez beat Katie Volynets (Q): 6-3, 6-4
• Anna Bondar beat Elina Svitolina (12): 6-2, 6-4
• Magdalena Frech (28) beat Talia Gibson (WC): 6-2, 6-2
• Elsa Jacquemot beat Marie Bouzkova: 6-4, 6-3
• Maria Sakkari beat Tatjana Maria: 6-3, 6-2
• Ann Li beat Rebecca Sramkova: 4-6, 6-2, 6-4
• Daria Kasatkina (15) beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse: 7-5, 6-1
• Kamilla Rakhimova beat Caroline Garcia (WC): 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
• Cristina Bucsa beat Claire Liu (Q): 6-2, 6-1
• Anna Kalinskaya (29) beat Clervie Ngounoue (WC): 6-0, 5-7, 6-4
• Elena Rybakina (9) beat Julieta Pareja (WC): 6-3, 6-0
• Iva Jovic beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 7-6 (6), 6-3
• Taylor Townsend beat Antonia Ruzic: 6-4, 6-4
• Elise Mertens (19) beat Alyssa Ahn (WC): 6-1, 6-0
• Renata Zarazua beat Madison Keys (6): 6-7 (10), 7-6 (3), 7-5
• Barbora Krejcikova beat Victoria Mboko (22): 6-3, 6-2
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Dayana Yastremska (30): 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 6-4
• Yulia Putintseva beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 6-4, 7-6 (4)
• Diane Parry beat Petra Kvitova: 6-1, 6-0
• Priscilla Hon (Q) beat Leolia Jeanjean: 6-3, 7-5
• Liudmila Samsonova (17) beat Yue Yuan: 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Jessica Pegula (4) beat Mayar Sherif: 6-0, 6-4
• Victoria Azarenka beat Hina Inoue (Q): 7-6, 6-4
• Jasmine Paolini (7) beat Destanee Aiava (Q): 6-2, 7-6 (4)
• Anna Blinkova beat Yuliia Starodubtseva: 6-3, 6-1
• Belinda Bencic (16) beat Shuai Zhang (Q): 6-3, 6-3
• Anastasia Potapova beat Lin Zhu: 6-4, 4-6, 6-2
• Emma Navarro (10) beat Yafan Wang: 7-6 (9), 6-3
• Lulu Sun beat Camila Osorio: 6-4, 2-6, 6-0
• Jelena Ostapenko (25) beat Xiyu Wang (Q): 6-4, 6-3
• Catherine McNally (WC) beat Jil Teichmann: 6-2, 6-2
• Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Rebeka Masarova: 7-5, 6-1
• Alexandra Eala beat Clara Tauson (14): 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (11)
• Moyuka Uchijima beat Olga Danilovic: 7-6 (2), 4-6, 7-6 (9)
• Janice Tjen (Q) beat Veronika Kudermetova (24): 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
• Leylah Fernandez (31) beat Rebecca Marino (Q): 6-2, 6-1
• Marketa Vondrousova beat Oksana Selekhmeteva (Q): 6-3, 7-6 (3)
• Emma Raducanu beat Ena Shibahara (Q): 6-1, 6-2
• Polina Kudermetova beat Nuria Parrizas Diaz: 2-2 ret.
• McCartney Kessler (32) beat Magda Linette: 7-5, 7-5
• Tereza Valentova (Q) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-3, 3-6, 6-4

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