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Sign upMaria Sakkari vs Yuliia Starodubtseva — R64 — US Open
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US OpenRound of 64
·Slam·HardCompleted
Sep 3, 2026·10:20 PM·2h 41m·New York
Yuliia Starodubtseva defeated Maria Sakkari 1-6, 7(7)-6(4), 6-2 — US Open 2026 R64.
Maria Sakkari and Yuliia Starodubtseva: Yuliia Starodubtseva leads 1–0 across 1 recorded meeting.
Three match points came and went inside a single service game, and with them the 32nd seed's US Open. Sakkari, whom the betting market made a 63 percent favorite, served at 5-4 in the second and was broken in game 10 for 5-5, then won 39 percent of her first-serve points in the third. She out-hit Starodubtseva 36 winners to 17 and took the points count 96-93, and none of it mattered. Ranked 74th and 5-7 on hard this season coming in, Starodubtseva needed 2 hours 41 minutes to clear a US Open best that had stood at the round of 64.