{"id":755887,"date":"2026-08-31T19:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/755887\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T19:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:26:15","slug":"us-open-2026-results-aryna-sabalenka-beats-camila-osorio-to-begin-three-peat-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/755887\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open 2026 results: Aryna Sabalenka beats Camila Osorio to begin ‘three-peat’ bid"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Sabalenka lifted the Miami Open trophy in April, she established a 3,000-point lead at the top of the world rankings.<\/p>\n

But early exits – by her high standards at least – followed at the French Open and Wimbledon. Now, Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina, who faces American wildcard Thea Frodin<\/a> on Tuesday, trails her by just 434 points.<\/p>\n

It means that Sabalenka, who is defending 2,000 points at Flushing Meadows, will have to win the title and hope Rybakina falls before the semi-finals to extend her 99-week reign as world number one.<\/p>\n

Home favourites Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff could also secure the number one ranking with a title triumph.<\/p>\n

Should Sabalenka win a third successive US Open title, she would become only the third woman to do so in the Open era after Serena Williams and Chris Evert.<\/p>\n

However, she will need to improve considerably to navigate a stacked draw in New York.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka stormed through the first set against the 52nd-ranked Osorio but struggled in the second, landing 48% of her first serves and hitting 12 unforced errors.<\/p>\n

But the four-time major singles champion fended off three break points and struck decisively at 4-4 before serving out victory after one hour and 28 minutes.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka will face Russian qualifier Polina Iatcenko next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Sabalenka lifted the Miami Open trophy in April, she established a 3,000-point lead at the top of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-755887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}