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Paula Badosa defeated Daria Kasatkina 6-1, 6-4 — US Open 2026 R128.
Daria Kasatkina and Paula Badosa: Paula Badosa leads 3–2 across 5 recorded meetings.
Eight return games, none won: Kasatkina went 0 for 5 on break points and never took a game off the Badosa serve, which held all eight times. The rankings framed this as an upset; the market did not, with 10Bet listing the 83rd-ranked Badosa at 53 percent. Badosa broke for 4-3 in the second and never handed it back, winning 67 percent of her second-serve points to Kasatkina's 39, while the fallen favorite — 4-8 on hard this season — saved three match points across five hours and 13 minutes. It is Badosa's first match since July's Hamburg quarterfinal, and it squares a series Kasatkina had led 2-1 on record.