Updates from the third round at Flushing Meadows
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Frech holds for the first time to reduce her arrears to 3-1. On the Sky commentary, Martina Navratilova is asked about Gauff looking more comfortable today, and whether she preferred playing during the day vs at night during her US Open career. She says she never liked the night matches, because the floodlights weren’t so good and it affected her volleying, as she thinks it did for Bjorn Borg. And suddenly Gauff throws in a few errors, including a first double fault, and she hands the break back to Frech. So disappointing for the American after her assured start. She leads 3-2 but they’re back on serve.
Noskova has got the break back against Muchova and is serving at 5-4 down. I’m not too sure how she got there; my computer isn’t really playing ball and is only letting me watch two matches at once. So I’m dipping between that and Musetti v Cobolli. But Muchova did serve for the first set at 5-3.
Gauff, looking more relaxed than she did the other night against Vekic, skips from 0-15 to 0-30 to 0-40 on Frech’s serve. Three early break points. And she then drags Frech to one corner and then the other, before dispatching the forehand winner. That’ll shake off any nerves. Gauff’s got the break and leads 2-0.
