{"id":101662,"date":"2025-08-28T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101662\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:58:08","slug":"us-open-li-upsets-16th-seed-bencic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101662\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open: Li upsets 16th seed Bencic"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Ann Li <\/a>reached\u00a0the third round of the US Open<\/a> by winning against Swiss Belinda Bencic<\/a>, the No 16 seed, 6-3, 6-3<\/a> at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Li, ranked No 69, will play Australian qualifier Priscilla Hon<\/a> next for a spot in the fourth round.<\/p>\n

The American edged out Slovak Rebecca Sramkova (4-6, 6-2, 6-4) ahead of her win today.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In the previous round, Bencic, ranked No 18, defeated Chinese qualifier Shuai Zhang (6-3, 6-3).<\/p>\n

New York (Grand Slam), other second-round matches (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 90,000,000):<\/p>\n

Amanda Anisimova vs. Maya Joint<\/p>\n

Donna Vekic vs. Coco Gauff<\/p>\n

Jaqueline Cristian vs. Ashlyn Krueger<\/p>\n


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Daria Kasatkina vs. Kamilla Rakhimova<\/p>\n

Renata Zarazua vs. Diane Parry<\/p>\n

Anastasia Zakharova vs. Laura Siegemund<\/p>\n

Hailey Baptiste vs. Naomi Osaka<\/p>\n

Sorana Cirstea vs. Karolina Muchova<\/p>\n

Magdalena Frech vs. Peyton Stearns<\/p>\n

Zeynep Sonmez vs. Marta Kostyuk<\/p>\n

Suzan Lamens vs. Iga Swiatek<\/p>\n

Anna Kalinskaya vs. Yulia Putintseva<\/p>\n

Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Xinyu Wang<\/p>\n

Maria Sakkari vs. Anna Bondar<\/p>\n

Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Viktorija Golubic<\/p>\n

Linda Noskova vs. Eva Lys<\/p>\n

Aryna Sabalenka vs. Polina Kudermetova<\/p>\n

Elsa Jacquemot vs. Leylah Fernandez: wednesday<\/p>\n

McCartney Kessler vs. Marketa Vondrousova: wednesday<\/p>\n

Jasmine Paolini (7) beat Iva Jovic: 6-3, 6-3<\/p>\n

Mirra Andreeva (5) beat Anastasia Potapova: 6-1, 6-3<\/p>\n

Elise Mertens (19) beat Lulu Sun: 6-2, 6-3<\/p>\n

Priscilla Hon beat Liudmila Samsonova (17): 4-6, 6-3, 6-2<\/p>\n

Taylor Townsend beat Jelena Ostapenko (25): 7-5, 6-1<\/p>\n

Elena Rybakina (9) beat Tereza Valentova (Q): 6-3, 7-6 (7)<\/p>\n

Barbora Krejcikova beat Moyuka Uchijima: 6-4, 6-2<\/p>\n

Jessica Pegula (4) beat Anna Blinkova: 6-1, 6-3<\/p>\n

Cristina Bucsa beat Alexandra Eala: 6-4, 6-3<\/p>\n

Victoria Azarenka beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-3, 6-3<\/p>\n

Emma Navarro (10) beat Catherine McNally (WC): 6-2, 6-1<\/p>\n

Emma Raducanu beat Janice Tjen (Q): 6-2, 6-1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Ann Li reached\u00a0the third round of the US Open by winning against Swiss Belinda Bencic, the No…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-101662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}