US Open - round one

The top 3 men’s seeds were untroubled in opening round matches at the 2019 US Open. However, it was carnage amongst the remaining top ten seeds.

Four of the seven left Flushing Meadows, and all were on the bottom side of the draw.

Dominic Thiem (4), Stefanos Tsitsipas (8), Karen Khachanov (9) and Roberto Bautista Agut (10) lost, as did other seeds:

Fabio Fognini (11), Félix Auger-Aliassime (18), Guido Pella (19), Taylor Fritz (26), and Kyle Edmund (30)

The women weren’t immune to upsets either, with former US Open champions Sloane Stephens (11) (2017) and Angie Kerber (14) (2016) both losing opening matches.

Other seeds to fall were:

Garbiñe Muguruza (24), Caroline Garcia (27), Carla Suarez Navarro (28) and Barbora Strycova (31).