Paolini advances at US Open when Pliskova retires after three points

No.5 seed Jasmine Paolini

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The Roland Garros and Wimbledon finalist led 30-15 in her first service game when Pliskova pulled up and began limping. The Czech requested medical treatment on her left foot, but was unable to continue.

Paolini will next face No.30 seed Yulia Putintseva

View Profile , who came from 5-3 down in the second set to defeat Wang Xinyu 6-1, 7-6(4) for the first time in four meetings. The Kazakhstani's variety and placement were on song at the start of the match, which she led 6-1, 3-1, and in the home stretch. Putintseva was also supremely clutch, winning consecutive seven-deuce games to build her first-set lead and then a four-deuce tussle to move up 6-5 in the second set.

However, Wang played her part in a high-quality contest with a four-game purple patch midway through the second set, during which a slew of laser-like backhand winners drew gasps. Putintseva advances to the US Open third round for the third time in her career.

Errani, Krueger, Bouzas Maneiro notch upsets

Paolini was joined in the third round by doubles partner Sara Errani

View Profile , with whom she won the Paris Olympics doubles gold medal less than a month ago. The 37-year-old, a semifinalist in Flushing Meadows in 2012, defeated Caroline Dolehide

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The result puts the Italian into the third round of a major for the first time since the 2021 Australian Open, and at the US Open for the first time since 2015. This tournament marks the 17-year anniversary of her Grand Slam main-draw debut at the 2007 US Open, when she defeated Renata Voracova to reach the second round before falling to Marion Bartoli.

In a youthful second-round clash, 20-year-old Ashlyn Krueger

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View Profile 6-1, 6-4. The No.59-ranked American needed just 64 minutes to wrap up a seventh career Top 30 win, firing 15 winners and dropping just seven points behind her first serve. Krueger, who had not won a match in six Grand Slam main draws before this week, took advantage of 25 unforced errors from Roland Garros semifinalist Andreeva to reach the third round of a major for the first time.

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By contrast, Jessica Bouzas Maneiro

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Bouzas Maneiro fired 21 winners to Boulter's 17 and displayed greater rally tolerance throughout than the Briton. The World No.74 held off a late charge from Boulter, who cut Bouzas Maneiro's 5-2 second-set lead to 5-5 but was unable to sustain her accuracy in the final two games.

However, No.18 seed Diana Shnaider

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