How one can watch: From 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Japanese time on ESPN2; and streaming on the ESPN app. In Canada on TSN from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; and streaming on TSN.ca and the TSN app.
Matches to control.
Due to the variety of matches biking by courts, the occasions for particular person matchups are estimates and should fluctuate primarily based on when earlier play is accomplished. All occasions are Japanese Commonplace.
Louis Armstrong STADIUM | 11 a.m.
Belinda Bencic vs. Iga Swiatek
Belinda Bencic, who received gold in ladies’s singles on the Tokyo Olympics, reached the semifinals of the U.S. Open in 2019 and is 2 wins away from returning this 12 months. Bencic, a hardcourt specialist seeded eleventh, has misplaced solely 18 video games throughout three rounds of play as her flat baseline photographs have prompted difficulties for her opponents.
Iga Swiatek, the seventh seed, is the one lady to achieve the second week of every Grand Slam occasion in 2021, however she didn't make it previous the quarterfinals at any of the primary three. In opposition to Bencic, Swiatek must use artful photographs to attempt to unsettle Bencic’s rhythm on longer rallies.
Arthur Ashe Stadium | 10 p.m.
Maria Sakkari vs. Bianca Andreescu
Bianca Andreescu received the 2019 U.S. Open however sustained a knee harm on the finish of that 12 months, stymying her improvement as she took 15 months off, returning on the 2021 Australian Open. After dropping within the first spherical on each the French Open’s clay and Wimbledon’s grass, Andreescu, the sixth seed, has regarded extra at dwelling on the arduous courts of Flushing Meadows.
Maria Sakkari, the seventeenth seed, reached her first main semifinal at this 12 months’s French Open and has moved into the spherical of 16 on the U.S. Open with out dropping a set. After this run, she's going to transfer into the highest 15 on the earth rankings for the primary time and with a couple of extra wins, she might even attain the highest 10, a primary for a Greek lady.
Arthur Ashe Stadium | 7 p.m.
Novak Djokovic vs. Jenson Brooksby
Novak Djokovic, the primary seed, has not regarded as indefatigable as ordinary throughout the U.S. Open. Though he has received every of his three matches in 4 units, there have been moments of lethargy that time to some points with Djokovic’s type as he chases a calendar Grand Slam.
Jenson Brooksby, a 20-year-old American who entered the principle draw by a wild card, upset the Twenty first-seeded Aslan Karatsev in 5 units on Saturday. Brooksby has a unusually stylized recreation, with a shortened service movement and a large backswing on the forehand that beguiles opponents. He’ll check that type in opposition to one of the best returner in trendy tennis.
Louis Armstrong STADIUM | 4 p.m.
Oscar Otte vs. Matteo Berrettini
Oscar Otte, a qualifier, had by no means moved previous the second spherical of a significant match till this week, beginning his run in the principle draw by upsetting the Twentieth-seeded Lorenzo Sonego within the first spherical. He'll come up in opposition to a a lot stronger opponent, the sixth-seeded Matteo Berrettini of Italy. Berrettini’s breakout efficiency got here on the U.S. Open in 2019, and he appears most at dwelling among the many raucous crowds of New York Metropolis. His robust serve and brutalist type of play is nicely suited to sooner surfaces, and Otte might be pushed to play extra defensively.
Arthur Ashe Stadium | 3 p.m.
Shelby Rogers vs. Emma Raducanu
Shelby Rogers had misplaced to Ashleigh Barty, the world No. 1, all 4 occasions they’d performed in 2021. On Saturday night time, she fought from two breaks down within the third set to win within the tiebreaker, motivated by a crowd that swelled in anticipation after any mistake that Barty made. She is going to face Emma Raducanu, an 18-year-old Briton, in an try to achieve her second consecutive U.S. Open quarterfinal. Raducanu blitzed previous Sara Sorribes Tormo within the third spherical, dropping just one recreation in 70 minutes. Raducanu’s second look in a significant match has resulted in yet one more go to to the spherical of 16, and he or she is in good type to aim to make a deeper push.
