Harriet Dart and Francesca Jones fell to seeded players as British interest in the US Open singles ended in the second round.<\/p>\n
Dart said she felt “under the weather” during her 6-2 6-2 defeat by Czech 25th seed Marie Bouzkova as temperatures reached 30C in New York.<\/p>\n
Her loss meant Jones was the last Briton standing in either singles draw, and she acquitted herself well before falling 6-4 6-4 to 14th seed and rising American star Iva Jovic.<\/p>\n
Nine British players competed in the US Open main draws – the most since 1981 – with four coming through qualifying.<\/p>\n
Five of them reached the second round, but Jacob Fearnley was the only player to win a set as they all fell to seeded players.<\/p>\n
Lucky loser Fearnley fell in four sets to 27th seed Tomas Martin Etcheverry, while qualifier Toby Samuel was beaten by 18th seed Jiri Lehecka.<\/p>\n
Katie Boulter lost to Wimbledon runner-up Karolina Muchova in only 58 minutes on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
In the men’s draw, Cameron Norrie, Arthur Fery, Harry Wendelken and Jan Choinski exited in the first round.<\/p>\n
Jones, ranked 90 places lower than Jovic, made her work for one hour 54 minutes to reach the third round.<\/p>\n
Humid conditions meant both players frequently dashed to the back of the court between points to dry their hands and face.<\/p>\n
It was 18-year-old Jovic who started on the front foot, opening up a double break and a 3-0 lead as she controlled the rallies with deep hitting from the baseline.<\/p>\n
Jones snatched a break back and kept in touch with Jovic, but could not make the most of a break point as Jovic served for the set.<\/p>\n
After wrapping up the opener, Jovic raced into a 4-1 lead in the second, only to once again be dragged back by Jones.<\/p>\n
Jones saved three match points on her own serve but Jovic produced one of her best service games to seal victory and set up a meeting with friend Alexandra Eala, from the Philippines.<\/p>\n
“It’s not like I was outclassed. You’re talking about someone who has gone deep in the slams,” Jones said of Jovic.<\/p>\n
“It was just half-chances. It’s frustrating, but it’s pretty clear my level is there.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harriet Dart and Francesca Jones fell to seeded players as British interest in the US Open singles ended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-759470","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\/759470","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=759470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}