Birrell, Duckworth rating first-round wins in US Open 2023 qualifying | 22 August, 2023 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

Australian hopes Kimberly Birrell and James Duckworth are via to the second spherical within the US Open 2023 qualifying competitors.

New York, USA , 22 August 2023 | Leigh Rogers

Kimberly Birrell and James Duckworth, Australia’s top-ranked gamers on this 12 months’s US Open qualifying competitors, have made promising begins to their campaigns.

World No.112 Birrell scored a three-set victory towards Spaniard Leyre Romero Gormaz in opening-round motion right this moment at Flushing Meadows.

A steely Birrell fought again from dropping a good opening set, the place she squandered a 5-3 lead and a set level, to document a 6-7(8) 6-1 6-2 victory.

This propels the 25-year-old Australian right into a second-round showdown with world No.150 Darja Semenistaja, a 20-year-old Latvian who has gained two ITF titles previously two months.

Duckworth survived a spirited problem from 17-year-old American wildcard Trevor Svajda to triumph 7-6(12) 6-2 of their first-round assembly.

The 31-year-old Australian, who fired 38 winners within the one-hour and 53-minute encounter, saved three set factors in a tense first-set tiebreak.

World No.112 Duckworth now meets one other participant making their Grand Slam-level debut – Terence Atmane, a 21-year-old Frenchman ranked No.218.

Gamers must win three rounds to earn a coveted main-draw place at Flushing Meadows.

Astra Sharma’s qualifying hopes have been dashed, bowing out within the opening spherical towards Russian Marina Melnikova.

World No.194 Sharma served for the match within the second set, nevertheless Melnikova fought again to submit a 4-6 7-6(3) 6-1 victory.

Aussies in motion – US Open

RESULTS
Ladies’s qualifying singles, first spherical
[13] Kimberly Birrell (AUS) d Leyre Romero Gormaz (ESP) 6-7(8) 6-1 6-2
Marina Melnikova d Astra Sharma (AUS) 4-6 7-6(3) 6-1

Males’s qualifying singles, first spherical
[12] James Duckworth (AUS) d [WC] Trevor Svajda (USA) 7-6(12) 6-2

COMING UP
Ladies’s qualifying singles, first spherical
Olivia Gadecki (AUS) v Concord Tan (FRA)
Arina Rodionova (AUS) v [32] Marina Bassols Ribera (ESP)
Jaimee Fourlis (AUS) v Vera Zvonareva
Priscilla Hon (AUS) v [11] Olga Danilovic (SRB)

Ladies’s qualifying singles, second spherical
[13] Kimberly Birrell (AUS) v Darja Semenistaja (LAT)

> VIEW: US Open 2023 ladies’s qualifying singles draw

Males’s qualifying singles, first spherical
Marc Polmans (AUS) v Nicholas David Ionel (ROU)
John Millman (AUS) v [11] Alejandro Tabilo (CHI)

Males’s qualifying singles, second spherical
[12] James Duckworth (AUS) v Terence Atmane (FRA)

> VIEW: US Open 2023 males’s qualifying singles draw

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