{"id":137978,"date":"2025-08-11T21:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T21:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137978\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T21:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T21:46:13","slug":"maya-joint-beaten-at-cincinnati-open-as-australians-continue-patchy-pre-us-open-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137978\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Joint beaten at Cincinnati Open as Australians continue patchy pre-US open run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Australia&#8217;s women will head towards the US Open in patchy form after Maya Joint completed their elimination from the last big warm-up event, the Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">After a bright start, the teenager was outgunned by Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-4, 6-3 in 75 minutes on a sweltering day in the midwest city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Opening play on a sparsely-attended court 3, the 19-year-old gained an early break in the last-32 third-round tie, and was 2-0 and 4-2 up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">But the 12th-seeded Russian stepped up the power to take the set with two breaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The second stanza was more closely contested, until Alexandrova won the sixth game to take a 4-2 lead and served out, concluding with an ace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-08-11\/alex-de-minaur-reilly-opelka-cincinnati-open-us-open\/105635410\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">De Minaur&#8217;s US Open prep rocked<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Alex de Minaur&#8217;s US Open preparations take a surprise hit as he is knocked out of the Cincinnati Open by giant American Reilly Opelka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Joint had forced five break points but took only one, while Alexandrova won all three break points she created.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Compatriots Daria Kasatkina, Ajla Tomljanovic and Kimberly Birrell all lost their second-round matches, but being ranked within the top 100, all should be confirmed in the main draw for the US Open, which begins on August 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">However, Joint&#8217;s chances of joining Kasatkina among the seeds in New York, which might have been achieved with a deep run in Cincinnati, have gone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Joint, who was born and grew up in the neighbouring state of Michigan, is currently entered for another Ohio event next week, the WTA 250 in Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">She will hope to pick up the form that enabled her to defeat 18th-seeded Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia in Cincinnati on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Two Aussie men, Adam Walton and Alexei Popyrin, are still in the Cincinnati Open, with both due to play their third-round matches on Wednesday (AEST).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\"><strong>AAP<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s women will head towards the US Open in patchy form after Maya Joint completed their elimination 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