{"id":878218,"date":"2026-09-03T05:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T05:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/878218\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T05:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T05:10:17","slug":"us-open-2026-aussie-wrap-women-eliminated-alex-de-minaur-progresses-daniil-medvedev-birds-video-reaction-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/878218\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open 2026 Aussie wrap: women eliminated, Alex De Minaur progresses, Daniil Medvedev birds video, reaction, highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was an Aussie bloodbath on day four of the US Open<\/a> with five Aussies, including our last four representatives on the women\u2019s side of the draw, knocked out.<\/p>\n

The four remaining Aussie women Maya Joint<\/a>, Kim Birrell, Daria Kasatkina and Taylah Preston joined James Duckworth in bowing out of the competition in the second round.<\/p>\n

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Taylah Preston was among five Aussies knocked out of the US Open on day four.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

The only glimmer in an otherwise dark day was Alex de Minaur<\/a>, who looked as though he barely got out of second gear in cruising past Italian qualifier Andrea Guerrieri 6-2, 6-2, 6-4.<\/p>\n

De Minaur’s match was his first of the tournament, having been pushed back a day due to heavy rain at Flushing Meadows on Wednesday (AEST).<\/p>\n

It looked as though the wet weather might add to de Minaur\u2019s frustrations on Thursday when, during the second set, players were forced from the court as another shower rolled across the precinct. Fortunately, the delay was relatively brief.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese tournaments, it\u2019s all about adapting and that\u2019s the name of the game,\u201d he said after progressing to the second round.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s too much to play for to let something like this affect you, so I\u2019m glad with the way I handled it. I\u2019m glad I got in and out, played a relatively clean match, and now I can focus on the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sixth-seeded Aussie will now take on the 70th-ranked Botic van de Zandschulp on Friday (AEST).<\/p>\n

Should he progress to the third round he would then get one day break and be back on the court on Sunday (AEST).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt definitely helps to be able to get on the court, get off the court and in straight sets. Every little bit helps.\u201d de Minaur said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow I\u2019m moving onwards, I\u2019ll be ready for tomorrow. It should be a battle, a physical one. Because of the rain, there\u2019s nothing you can do about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve just got to get out there, play your tennis match and, ultimately, if you win enough matches, you\u2019re going to get out on the stadium court. So that\u2019s the mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adopted Aussie Kasatkina was the first to be bundled out. Paula Badosa needed only minutes to win the one game required to clinch a straight sets 6-1, 6-4 victory.<\/p>\n

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Alex de Minaur is through to the third round.\u00a0AP Photo\/Seth Wenig<\/p>\n

Taylah Preston was next, knocked out by Taylor Townsend with an equally grim 6-1, 6-1 scoreline.<\/p>\n

Duckworth followed, falling to China\u2019s big serving Wu Yibing 7-5, 6-3, 6-1.<\/p>\n

Birrell and Joint both rallied from a set down to force a third, before both eventually fell to Ekatarina Alexandrova and Elina Svitolina<\/a> respectively.<\/p>\n

Tristan Schoolkate, Dane Sweeny, Alexei Popyrin and de Minaur will all be in action on Friday (AEST).<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Daniil Medvedev<\/a> blew up at the chair umpire over a late let call, which came due to two birds sitting on the net.<\/p>\n

In the second set of his straight-sets win over American Sebastian Gorzny, chair umpire Timo Janzen allowed a rally to continue despite two small brown birds perching themselves in the firing line.<\/p>\n

Only after one of them flew away as a crunching Medvedev forehand whizzed close by was let called, and the point ordered to be replayed. Gorzny had been unable to return Medvedev\u2019s forehand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the most ridiculous decisions I\u2019ve seen in my life \u2026 this is very bad,\u201d Medvedev protested.<\/p>\n

The enigmatic Russian had some sympathy from commentator Sam Querrey, who also questioned why let wasn\u2019t immediately called.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was incredible \u2026 how did (the birds) not move before? I\u2019ve never seen that before in my life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

“It had to be a let, surely. I just don’t know why it took (Janzen) so long to call it.”<\/p>\n

In his courtside interview post-match, Medvedev was asked where that ranked in a career of chaotic and bizarre moments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis would be definitely in the top five,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the thing is that when they came in, I thought, ‘OK, the referee is going to stop the point’, and he let it play, like, \u2018OK, let\u2019s play.\u2019 And the moment I hit the winner, he was, like, \u2018Stop! Stop! Stop!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Medvedev lost his first-round match in Louis Armstrong last year, when he had a meltdown after the umpire allowed Benjamin Bonzi a second serve because a photographer mistakenly entered the court too soon. That blow-up led to a delay of more than six minutes.<\/p>\n

His antics on the same court in 2019, followed by a post-match interview in which he encouraged fans to continue raining down boos on him, led to a US$9,000 fine.<\/p>\n

He quickly let go of this latest incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s OK,\u201d the 2021 champion said. \u201cIt happens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was an Aussie bloodbath on day four of the US Open with five Aussies, including our last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-878218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878218","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=878218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}