By Tennis Now | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, August 17, 2023
You may comply with the dailry drama that’s US Open qualifying on ESPN platforms subsequent week.
ESPNEWS and ESPN+ will broadcast all 4 days of US Open qualifying beginning subsequent Tuesday, August twenty second.
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The qualifiers function 128 males and 128 girls competing for the ultimate 32 slots (16 males and 16 girls) within the 2023 US Open singles attracts.
ESPN+ will stream all matches on all 14 courts (12 courts on Friday) from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Japanese time.
ESPNEWS will broadcast matches every day from 11a.m. to five p.m. Japanese.
The entire US Open Qualifying Broadcast Schedule is right here:
U.S. Ladies to look at within the US Open Ladies’s Singles Qualifying Draw:
Taylor Townsend, this shall be her third straight main trying to qualify for singles following this 12 months’s French Open and Wimbledon and her first time competing in qualifying on the US Open since 2019. She gave delivery to son, Aydn Aubrey on March 14, 2021 and since getting back from childbirth has reached a pair of ladies’s doubles finals on the 2022 US Open with Caty McNally and the French Open this 12 months with Leylah Fernandez.
Caroline Dolehide cracked the Prime 100 of the WTA Rankings in singles for the primary time in her profession this season. This shall be her third straight 12 months competing in qualifying on the US Open. She hasn’t reached the principle draw since 2020. Dolehide has 4 main semifinal appearances in girls’s doubles, together with twice on the US Open in 2019 (with Vania King) and 2022 (with Storm Sanders). She additionally made girls’s doubles semifinals at Wimbledon this 12 months with Zhang Shuai.
Kayla Day, for the primary time in her profession at a Grand Slam, Day superior to the third spherical on this 12 months’s French Open after defeating Madison Keys. Final 12 months, she competed in US Open qualifying, shedding in her 2nd match. Day has not performed within the US Open foremost draw since 2017.
U.S. Males to look at within the US Open Males’s Singles Qualifying Draw:
Aleksandar Kovacevic (goes by “Aleks”) made his foremost draw debut in a serious on the 2023 French Open, the place he misplaced to 23-time main champion Novak Djokovic within the 1st spherical. He performed 5 years of faculty tennis on the College of Illinois, the place he was a Two-Time All-American. Kovacevic was born and raised in New York Metropolis, the place he began enjoying tennis as a 4-year-old at Central Park along with his mother and father, Milan and Milanka, who’re ex-pro desk tennis gamers from former Yugoslavia.
Maxime Cressy, the French-American participant started representing the U.S. in 2018. He earned his first ATP title at Newport on grass final 12 months and appeared in three- different ATP Finals together with in Montpellier earlier this season. Cressy performed faculty tennis at UCLA successful the 2019 NCAA nationwide title in doubles with Keegan Smith.
Alex Michelsen, reached two main finals in boys’ doubles on the 2022 Australian Open and gained the 2022 Wimbledon title with countryman Sebastian Gorzny. He determined to forgo his faculty dedication to play on tour. Michelsen reached his first profession ATP ultimate at Newport and, at 18 years previous, turned the youngest finalist within the event’s historical past. The week previous to that run, he gained his first profession Challenger Tour title in Chicago.
Following the qualifying event, ESPN will current unique,” first ball to final ball” protection of the 2023 US Open. Protection begins Sunday, August 27, with a particular 90-minute SportsCenter on the US Open preview present on ESPN at 4 p.m. ET.
Picture credit score: Kathryn Riley/USTA/US Open
