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Alcaraz Wins Opening Match at US Open

Carlos Alcaraz of Spain in action against Li Tu of Australia during their first round match at the US Open Tennis Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA, 27 August 2024. The US Open tournament runs from 26 August through 08 September. EPA/BRIAN HIRSHFELD
Carlos Alcaraz of Spain in action against Li Tu of Australia during their first round match at the US Open Tennis Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA, 27 August 2024. The US Open tournament runs from 26 August through 08 September. EPA/BRIAN HIRSHFELD
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Alcaraz Wins Opening Match at US Open

Carlos Alcaraz of Spain in action against Li Tu of Australia during their first round match at the US Open Tennis Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA, 27 August 2024. The US Open tournament runs from 26 August through 08 September. EPA/BRIAN HIRSHFELD
Carlos Alcaraz of Spain in action against Li Tu of Australia during their first round match at the US Open Tennis Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA, 27 August 2024. The US Open tournament runs from 26 August through 08 September. EPA/BRIAN HIRSHFELD

Carlos Alcaraz extended his winning streak to 15 straight Grand Slam matches with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 victory over Li Tu on Tuesday night in the first round of the US Open, The Associated Press reported.
The No. 3 seed from Spain won the French Open and Wimbledon titles earlier this year, giving him four major championships. If he can add another U.S. Open title to the one he captured in 2022, Alcaraz would join Rod Laver (1969) and Rafael Nadal (2010) as the only men to capture those three Grand Slam titles in the same year during the Open era.
Alcaraz played just one match since losing to Novak Djokovic in the final of the Paris Olympics, then cut short a practice session before the US Open as a precaution after twisting his right ankle. But he seemed to move fine over the final two sets against the qualifier from Australia and moved on to a second-round matchup Thursday against Botic van de Zandschulp.

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US Open: 2021 Champion Emma Raducanu Loses in the First Round to Sofia Kenin 

Emma Raducanu of Great Britain returns the ball in the first round match against Sofia Kenin of the United States (unseen) during the US Open Tennis Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA, 27 August 2024. (EPA)
Emma Raducanu of Great Britain returns the ball in the first round match against Sofia Kenin of the United States (unseen) during the US Open Tennis Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA, 27 August 2024. (EPA)
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US Open: 2021 Champion Emma Raducanu Loses in the First Round to Sofia Kenin 

Emma Raducanu of Great Britain returns the ball in the first round match against Sofia Kenin of the United States (unseen) during the US Open Tennis Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA, 27 August 2024. (EPA)
Emma Raducanu of Great Britain returns the ball in the first round match against Sofia Kenin of the United States (unseen) during the US Open Tennis Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA, 27 August 2024. (EPA)

Emma Raducanu wiped away tears at her post-match news conference after losing to Sofia Kenin 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 in the first round of the US Open on Tuesday night, keeping the 2021 champion winless at the tournament since her title.

“I feel down. I feel sad,” Raducanu said, pausing to find her words. “Obviously this is a tournament I really want to do well in.”

Three years ago, Britain's Raducanu was 18 at the US Open when she became the first qualifier to claim any Grand Slam singles championship. She was eliminated in the first round by Alizé Cornet in 2022, then missed the trip to Flushing Meadows last year after having surgery on both wrists and an ankle.

This time, Raducanu was outplayed down the stretch by Kenin, an American who won the Australian Open in 2020.

“I’m mentally super tough, and I feel like that’s something that I’ve always had,” said Kenin, who had lost six of her past seven matches heading into the US Open. “I had confidence going into the match today, and of course I believed I could win.”

Kenin finished with 45 winners, nearly twice as many as Raducanu's 24.

“She's a Slam champion for a reason. ... Credit to her,” said Raducanu, who hadn't played a match on tour since a loss in Washington on Aug. 2.

The lack of action might have been a mistake but was a result of a “collective” decision by her team, Raducanu said.

Her next event will be the Korea Open, which starts in Seoul on Sept. 16.

“Until then, I'm just going to go back to the drawing board and train and analyze where I went wrong and try and improve for the rest of the season,” Raducanu said. “Obviously the Slams are over for this year, but it's not actually that long until Australia comes around again (at the start of next season).”