Australians James Duckworth and Kim Birrell have made profitable begins to their US Open qualifying campaigns, transferring into the second spherical in New York with a pair of hard-earned victories.
Duckworth needed to save a sequence of set factors in a tense first-set tiebreaker earlier than working away with a 7-6 (14-12) 6-2 victory over the 17-year-old American Trevor Svajda.
Birrell fought again impressively after shedding the opening set in a tiebreaker to report a 6-7 (6-8) 6-1 6-2 win over Spaniard Leyre Romero Gormaz.
Duckworth reached the second spherical of the US Open predominant draw final yr however has slipped exterior of the world’s prime 100.
The 31-year-old is seeded twelfth in qualifying and should win two extra matches to advance to the singles correct on the season’s ultimate grand slam, which begins on Monday.
Duckworth subsequent performs Frenchman Terence Atmane, whereas Birrell faces Latvian Darja Semenistaja.
West Australian Astra Sharma bowed out within the first spherical of girls’s qualifying with a 4-6 7-6 (7-3) 6-1 loss to Russian Marina Melnikova.
Marc Polmans opens his marketing campaign in a while Wednesday (AEST).
John Millman, Olivia Gadecki, Arina Rodionova, Jaimee Fourlis, Priscilla Hon and Lizette Cabrera all play on Thursday, hoping to bolster Australia’s dozen-strong main-draw contingent headed by males’s world No.13 Alex de Minaur.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
