NEW YORK: World number one Jannik Sinner opens his bid for back-to-back US Open titles on Tuesday as former champions Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff set out to reclaim the women’s crown at Flushing Meadows. Italy’s Sinner headlines the day three action when he faces unseeded Czech Vit Kopriva at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Sinner has won two of this season’s three Grand Slams, the Australian Open and Wimbledon, while also reaching the final of the French Open in June where he lost an epic to Carlos Alcaraz in a fifth-set tiebreak.

With the US Open starting on Sunday, Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz are the men to beat, while Aryna Sabalenka aims for a women's title defence that no-one has managed since…

Martedì 26 agosto l’azzurro, che deve difendere la poltrona di numero uno al mondo dagli assalti di Carlos Alcaraz, affronterà il ceco nel primo incontro del torneo di New York