NEW YORK – Australian Open Champion Madison Keys was cancelled by 89 unprotected errors within the first spherical of the US Open with Mexico’s Renata Zarazua’s 6-7 (10), 7-6 (3), 7-5 losses.
The sixth seed key, who was runner-up for the Flushing Meadows in 2017, made many errors on Monday, together with 14 double faults, so Zarazúa needed to produce simply eight winners to win the largest victory of her profession.
Zarazúa, who ranked 82nd, misplaced within the first or second spherical in all eight earlier Grand Slam appearances. Keys gained her first main championship at Melbourne Park in January, beating No. 1 Enviornment Sabalenka within the remaining.
Zarazua grew to become the primary Mexican participant to knock off a high 10 seed within the majors since Angarika Gabaldon, who defeated third-seeded Janano Botna within the sixteenth spherical on the 1995 Australia Open.
Earlier than the Keys, the final American girl to seed within the high 10 after shedding within the first spherical on the Flushing Meadows was Maria Bent Kabuchi, No. 8 Chandalubin in 2003. It’s the solely different instance of what has occurred within the New York Match over the previous 30 years.
The results of different girls’s singles on Monday was that two-time main champion Barbora Krejcikova defeated 18-year-old Canadian Victoria M Boko.
Krejcikova shouldn’t be seeded in Flushing Meadows. It was not seeded within the slam for the primary time because the French opening in 2021.
Additionally on Monday, Belgian No. 19 seed Elise Mertens beat American Alyssa Anne 6-1, 6-0, whereas No. 17 Seadrewdmira Samsonova handed ex Yuan Yue 2-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Wimbledon two-time champion Petra Kvitova was crushed 6-1, 6-0 by Frenchman Diane Parry in Kvitova’s remaining match earlier than his retirement.
ESPN analysis and Related Press contributed to this report.
