There’s already been a few upsets in the first round of this year’s US Open with top seeds Holger Rune, Karen Khachanov and Felix Auger-Aliassime crashing out at the first hurdle in the men’s draw. It’s been a similar story in the women’s draw with Caroline Garcia, Maria Sakkari and Barbora Krejcikova unable to get through to the second round.

There was no such problems for Carlos Alcaraz or Novak Djokovic, both of whom cruised past their first-round matches. But the biggest story for the Brits has been that all seven players in both draws made it through to the next round without any of them dropping a single set.

Andy Murray, Cam Norrie, Jack Draper and Dan Evans all made light work of potentially tricky ties. Jodie Burrage, Katie Boulter and Lily Miyazaki also progressed with a few blockbuster matches set up in the next round.

Qualifier Miyazaki faces off against Olympic champion Belinda Bencic while Draper will take on Hubert Hurkacz. Murray will be up against old foe Grigor Dimitrov, but Burrage has the pick of the lot as she takes on No 2 seed Aryna Sabalenka.

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Good morning Brits

Hello again to those (like me) are just waking up and looking to catch up on last night’s US Open action.

We’ve now moved from yesterday’s blog, but you can look back on everything that happened overnight right here.

We’ll bring you fresh updates from the tournament today with Novak Djokovic back in action while the biggest match of the day is arguably Mirra Andreeva versus Coco Gauff.

Stay tuned!

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