Hello and welcome to Telegraph Sport’s protection of day two of the US Open.
There are six Britons in motion right now, with Katie Boulter getting proceedings underneath means in opposition to France’s Diane Parry at 4pm.
She is adopted by Andy Murray, who begins his match with a primary spherical match in opposition to Corentin Moutet of France scheduled for 6.30pm.
It is now 11 years since Murray secured his first grand slam crown at Flushing Meadows. The 36-year-old has proven indicators of promise in 2023, reaching the third spherical of the Australian Open in January and pushing fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas shut in a five-set loss at Wimbledon.
However, the 33-year-old has been troubled by harm and was pressured to withdraw from Cincinnati earlier this month with an belly pressure. If he overcomes world No 71 Moutet, he’s due a troublesome second-round conflict with 19th seed Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria.
Cameron Norrie, Dan Evans and Jack Draper additionally start their campaigns within the males’s competitors right now, whereas Jodie Burrage joins Boulter within the ladies’s draw.
Norrie has misplaced 4 consecutive matches since Wimbledon, whereas Draper has struggled with a shoulder harm all summer season. Evans, in the meantime, endured a tough run of defeats earlier than successful the largest title of his profession in Washington.
They will all hope to match the type of British qualifier Lily Miyazaki, who gained her first primary draw Grand Slam singles match on Monday with a scintillating straight-sets victory in opposition to Margarita Betova.
