{"id":51414,"date":"2026-08-15T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/51414\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T12:00:20","slug":"major-boost-for-australian-trio-ahead-of-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/51414\/","title":{"rendered":"Major boost for Australian trio ahead of US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia’s men have flicked the switch at the Cincinnati Open with Adam Walton, James Duckworth and Chris O’Connell all progressing in the opening round.<\/p>\n

It was a timely boost ahead of the US Open at Flushing Meadows, all three progressing in the Masters 1000 event with convincing straight-sets victories.<\/p>\n

World No.98 Walton overcame Colombian qualifier Nicolas Mejia 7-5 6-0 to set up a clash in the round of 64 against No.29 seed Ignatio Buse. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Walton\"<\/p>\n

Adam Walton is through to the round of 64 at the Masters 1000 event in Cincinnati. (EPA PHOTO)<\/p>\n

Duckworth beat American qualifier JJ Wolf 7-5 7-6 (7-0) and his reward is a meeting with in-form, seeded Englishman Arthur Ferry, who received a bye.<\/p>\n

O’Connell, who came through qualifying, advanced by beating Polish star Kamil Majchrzak 6-4 7-6 (7-5). He will now meet Norwegian No.11 seed Casper Ruud. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Duckworth\"<\/p>\n

James Duckworth will meet Englishman Arthur Ferry for a place in the last 32 at the Cincinnati Open. (Joel Carrett\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n

They will be joined in the round of 64 by No.5 seed Alex de Minaur, who received a bye, and wildcard Rinky Hijikata.<\/p>\n

The Australian defeated French veteran Gael Monfils in three sets the previous day to progress.<\/p>\n

But luck was not on the side of Thanasi Kokkinakis, who served 20 aces and still went down to world No.47 Nuno Borges.<\/p>\n

After three tough sets the Portuguese star eventually triumphed 5-7 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (7-4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia’s men have flicked the switch at the Cincinnati Open with Adam Walton, James Duckworth and Chris O’Connell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[430,19164,8783,2890,1965,450,463],"class_list":["post-51414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us-open","tag-adam-walton","tag-arthur-ferry","tag-chris-o39connell","tag-cincinnati-open","tag-flushing-meadows","tag-james-duckworth","tag-us-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}