Felix Auger-Aliassime bounced from U.S. Open in 2nd round

Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime was eliminated from the U.S. Open on Wednesday, dropping his second-round match in four sets to Russia's Karen Khachanov.

The Montreal native and No. 3 seed at the event in New York won the first set in a tiebreak 7-6 (5), but dropped the next three sets by the scores of 6-3, 6-2, 6-2.

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Naomi Osaka recovered after a mid-match lapse to advance to the third round of the U.S. Open on Thursday with a 6-2, 5-7, 6-1 victory over Katerina Siniakova.

The two-time U.S. Open champion went out early on a day that had also had Alex Eala and Iga Swiatek on the schedule, with Coco Gauff headlining the action at night.

Doubles play also began Thursday, though Serena and Venus Williams were not on the schedule. They could play their first-round match Friday against Hao-Ching Chan and Maya Joint, who beat Serena in singles play at Wimbledon this summer.

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Swiatek, the 2022 U.S. Open champion, scored a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Nadia Podoroska. Eala, the No. 17 seed from the Philippines, faced a lengthy wait for her start.

Gauff, who won her first major title at Flushing Meadows in 2023, faces Paula Badosa in a night match that will be followed by No. 1 Alexander Zverev, who hopes for an easier time against Quentin Halys after he needed five sets to edge Lorenzo Sonego on Tuesday, barely avoiding becoming the first No. 1 seed to lose in the first round of a men's major since 2003.

Badosa will be playing for the second straight day, forced to finish her first-round match Wednesday after play was suspended Tuesday because of rain that hampered the tournament for