Bouzas Maneiro beats Vidmanova 6-3 6-4 in US Open opener

Jessica Bouzas Maneiro opened her US Open campaign with a controlled 6-3 6-4 win over Darja Vidmanova in the first round. The match turned on the second ball: the Spaniard won 80 percent of her second-serve points, while Vidmanova managed just 31.8 percent behind hers, a gap that outweighed the Czech's tidier 65.6 percent first-serve rate. Bouzas Maneiro landed only 53.5 percent of first serves yet took 60.9 percent of those points, and both players kept the errors down with three aces and a single double fault apiece. It was a straightforward passage into the second round.