NEW YORK: Defending cahmpion Naomi Osaka starts off Wednesday’s US Open schedule at Arthur Ashe Stadium with second seed Daniil Medvedev and third seed Stefanos Tsitsipas to follow in other feature matches.
Osaka seeking her fifth career Grand Slam title and third US Open crown in four years, plays a second-round match against 145th-ranked Serbian qualifier Olga Danilovic.
The 23-year-old Japanese third seed has never faced her 20-year-old rival.
Russian second seed Daniil Medvedev, the 2019 US Open and 2021 Australian Open runner-up, meets Germany’s 57th-ranked Dominik Koepfer. Medvedev beat Koepfer in the fourth round of the 2019 US Open.
Sloane Stephens, the 2017 US Open champion, faces…
