US Open: Francesca Jones begins qualifiers with win

High seed Francesca Jones took step one to reaching the US Open foremost draw by profitable her opening qualifier, however Heather Watson was amongst 4 Britons to lose on Tuesday.

British quantity 4 Jones beat Slovakia’s Viktoria Hruncakova 6-3 6-4. She is going to face Ekaterine Gorgodze of Georgia on Wednesday as she appears to be like to achieve the US Open foremost draw for the primary time in her profession.

The world quantity 86 has by no means obtained direct entry to a Grand Slam earlier than and narrowly missed out this time, which means she is the highest seed in qualifying.

The 24-year-old served six aces in a match lasted one hour 22 minutes and notched an 87% win fee on her first serves.

In the meantime, former British primary Watson was defeated 6-3 3-6 4-6 by Gorgodze as she failed to achieve the primary draw for a fourth successive 12 months.

British girls’s quantity seven Harriet Dart edged out Romanian Anca Todoni – who sits 112 locations above her within the rankings – 7-5 6-7 (3-7) 7-6 (10-6).

British males’s quantity 5 Jan Choinski misplaced 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 to Argentina’s Andrea Collarini, however Oliver Crawford beat Alex Bolt of Australia 5-7 6-4 6-4.

George Loffhagen was crushed 4-6 5-7 by Jason Kubler, whereas 22-year-old Jack Pinnington Jones misplaced 6-3 7-6 (8-6) 7-6 (14-12).

Jodie Burrage started her qualifying marketing campaign with a win on Monday, however British quantity 5 Dan Evans was eradicated and can miss out on the primary draw of a Grand Slam for the primary time since 2018.

There are six Brits in motion on Wednesday within the second spherical of qualifying:

Gamers should win three matches in qualifying to advance to the primary singles attracts for the event, which begins on Sunday.

Jack Draper, Cameron Norrie and Jacob Fearnley have direct entry into the lads’s singles, with Emma Raducanu, Katie Boulter and Sonay Kartal within the girls’s.