Alex de Minaur took less than 90 minutes to advance to the third round at Flushing Meadows at the expense of China’s Yibing Wu.
dumped Nick Kyrgios out of Stuttgart
in the grand slam finalist’s premature return from a knee injury this year but also upended Denis Shapovalov and Taylor Fritz en route to the final on Dallas hard courts in February. But de Minaur broke him seven times, won 82 per cent of his first-serve points and committed a meagre 10 unforced errors in 22 gamesThe 13th seed will play either Chile’s world No.25 Nicolas Jarry or 17-year-old American wildcard Alex Michelsen on Sunday for a place in the last 16 of the season’s final major.Fellow Australian Chris O’Connell will look to follow de Minaur and Hijikata into the third round when he faces third-seeded 2021 Open champion Daniil Medvedev later on day four.
Wildcard Hijikata is up against China’s world No.67 Zhizhen Zhang on Friday in his first grand slam third-round appearance.
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