Tennis

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Rising Aussie Maya Joint through to Round 2 of the US Open.

Great fight in the 2nd set from 0-4 down

2nd singles win at a Slam, both coming in New York

22nd tour level win in 2025 (compared to 1 last year)

 

[tiger_one]

Knowing what was looming in the 2nd round, Alexei Popyrin survived a bigger challenge in the third set to get into the locker room as fresh as possible for a tilt at the world number one

Jannik Sinner.

The Aussie has a 1-0 H2H winning their only encounter 7-6 (5), 6-2 on the Madrid clay in 2021.