{"id":64145,"date":"2026-09-03T09:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/64145\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:29:29","slug":"jelena-dokic-says-it-all-after-20yo-aussies-stunning-display-against-world-no-9-at-us-open-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/64145\/","title":{"rendered":"Jelena Dokic says it all after 20yo Aussie’s stunning display against World No.9 at US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia’s Maya Joint is being praised around the tennis<\/a> world after an ‘amazing’ performance against Elina Svitolina at the US Open<\/a>. The 20-year-old Joint ultimately lost 2-6 7-6 (8-6) 4-6, but showed why she’s regarded as a star in the making.<\/p>\n

Playing against the ninth seed and a four-time grand slam semi-finalist, Joint overcame a nervous start to match it with Svitolina. She saved a match point in the second set to win it in a tie-breaker – the first time in her career that she took a set off a top-10 opponent.<\/p>\n

\"Jelena<\/p>\n

Jelena Dokic was impressed by Maya Joint’s fight against Elina Svitolina at the US Open.<\/p>\n

Svitolina then made a red-hot start to the third set and threatened to run away with it easily. But Joint showed some incredible grit to hang tough and save three more match points.<\/p>\n

“That’s an amazing effort…and on we go in this final set,” Sam Smith said in commentary when Joint managed to survive. Jelena Dokic sung Joint’s praises after the match, saying: “It was an amazing match, they were really blasting the ball.<\/p>\n

“There wasn’t much in it, just a bit of experience for Svitolina. (Joint is) young and I can’t wait to see more of her.”<\/p>\n

\"Maya<\/p>\n

Maya Joint was impressive despite losing to Elina Svitolina at the US Open. (Photo by Simon Bruty\/USTA via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

One pundit wrote on social media: “Maya Joint should take a lot of positives from the match against Elina despite the loss. She hasn’t had the best season but she really pushed Elina in this match, and was able to take a set off of a top-10 player for the first time.”<\/p>\n

Another wrote: “Fighter Maya Joint is here! Even if she loses this, she’s so back. She would’ve won this easily if it’s not Elina.”<\/p>\n

Alex de Minaur wins on dire day for Aussies at US Open<\/p>\n

It was a fairly dire day for the Aussie tennis contingent in New York, with World No.7 Alex de Minaur the only winner<\/a>. De Minaur won 6-2 6-2 6-4 over Italian qualifier Andrea Guerrieri in a match that was delayed until day four because of wet weather.<\/p>\n

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James Duckworth lost in straight sets to Wu Yibing of China, while Taylah Preston suffered the same fate against American player Taylor Townsend. Kim Birrell took a set off 18th seed Ekaterina Alexandrova before falling in three, while Paula Badosa completed her win over Daria Kasatkina after the match was postponed overnight<\/a> with Badosa just two points from victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia’s Maya Joint is being praised around the tennis world after an ‘amazing’ performance against Elina Svitolina at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[362,24403,21209,822,272,652,24765,24763,408,24764,24766,11289],"class_list":["post-64145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-elina-svitolina","tag-alex-de-minaur","tag-badosa","tag-elina","tag-elina-svitolina","tag-getty-images","tag-jelena-dokic","tag-joint","tag-maya","tag-maya-joint","tag-maya-joints","tag-simon-bruty","tag-svitolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64145","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=64145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}