Scene: Flushing Glades, New York Dates: 28 Aug-10 Sept
BBC scope: Live radio and content critique on chose matches each day.
Austrian 6th seed Dominic Thiem made short work of Alex de Minaur in their rain-deferred US Open opener, securing a 6-4 6-1 6-1 win on Wednesday.
Thiem, 23, was 1-0 up in the third set when rain stopped the match on Tuesday.
Progressive breaks of serve when play continued guaranteed Thiem was confined for not as much as thirty minutes on his arrival to the Show off Court.
Thiem will play either Cypriot veteran Marcos Baghdatis or American 20-year-old Taylor Fritz in the second round.
Somewhere else French 26th seed Richard Gasquet, who achieved the semi-finals at the US Open in 2013, lost 3 6-2 6-4 6-2 to world number 59 Leonardo Mayer.
Tomas Berdych guaranteed there would be no rehash of homecrowd most loved Ryan Harrison's 2016 heroics.
American Harrison beat 6th seed Milos Raonic on his way to the third round at Flushing Glades a year ago, however was cleared aside 6-4 6-2 7-6 (7-4) by the Czech fifteenth seed.
Gael Monfils won the all-French challenge on Court 17, seeing off comrade Jeremy Chardy 7-6 (8-6) 6-3 6-4 to set up a moment round meeting with Donald Youthful.
After the climate wiped out play on all separated from the secured Arthur Ashe field on Tuesday, there is a guard calendar of 87 coordinates on Wednesday.
Juan Martin del Potro, who won the title in 2009, starts his battle against Switzerland's Henri Laaksonen with Maria Sharapova, Venus Williams and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga set to take after the Argentine on the show-stopper Ashe court.
Somewhere else, fourteenth seed Scratch Kyrgios, straight from beating world number one Rafael Nadal on the way to the Cincinnati last, plays kindred Australian John Millman, while Britons Aljaz Bedene, Kyle Edmund and Cameron Norrie are likewise in real life.
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