Updates from Flushing Meadows on Day 6 of the US Open highlight several key developments in the third round. Canadian player Leylah Fernandez made an immediate impact against Jessica Pegula, breaking her opponent early to take a 2-0 lead in the first set.<\/p>\n
Fernandez, who faced Emma Raducanu in the 2021 US Open final, has only advanced past the third round at a Grand Slam once since that loss, achieving a quarter-final run at the 2022 French Open. Despite this, she has secured five WTA Tour titles and remains a consistent top-30 player, raising questions about career trajectories when compared to Raducanu’s path.<\/p>\n
In other matches, Aryna Sabalenka continued her dominant form by taking the first set 6-3 against a competitive opponent. Marta Kostyuk also won the opening set 6-3 against Anna Blasha, while seed No. 16 Sorana Cirstea defeated No. 19 Jasmine Paolini 6-3 in what was considered a notable result despite the close seeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Day 6 of the US Open, Aryna Sabalenka won the first set while Leylah Fernandez broke Jessica Pegula early. Sorana Cirstea also secured a first-set victory over Jasmine Paolini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1319,1318,1317,1316,173,745,10],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cirstea","tag-fernandez","tag-pegula","tag-sabalenka","tag-tennis","tag-us-open","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}