US Open 2026: Fery faces Musetti, Fritz and Rybakina through on day three – live

And what of the day three energy levels on the Sky Sports team? Martina Navratilova and Tim Henman are in good spirits (Martina especially because she’s the only Sky pundit who can boast that all of her title picks are still standing), but Laura Robson is feeling rather sweaty in the humid, heavy conditions, with rain forecast today. And right on cue … it starts raining. Gah. Play may not be starting on time on most of the courts now, though the roofs on Arthur Ashe and Louis Armstrong mean that Madison Keys v Alina Korneeva is guaranteed to get under way in half an hour’s time, and Flavio Cobolli will be on court very shortly against Argentina’s Francisco Comesana.

11am start (4pm BST) unless stated

Arthur Ashe Stadium 11.30am New York/4.30pm BST
Madison Keys (USA, 22) v Alina Korneeva
Taylor Fritz (USA, 9) v Darwin Blanch (USA)

Louis Armstrong Stadium
Flavio Cobolli (It, 5) v Francisco Comesana (Arg)
Mirra Andreeva (5) v Janice Tjen (Ina)

Grandstand
Elena Rybakina (Kaz, 2) v Thea Frodin (USA)
Arthur Fery (GB) v Lorenzo Musetti (It, 13)
Iva Jovic (USA, 4) v Magdalena Frech (Pol)
Alex de Minaur (Aus, 6) v Andrea Guerrieri (It)

Stadium 17
Yulia Putintseva (Kaz) v Belinda Bencic (Sui, 12)
Daria Kasatkina (Aus) v Paula Badosa (Sp)
Rafael Jodar (Sp, 12) v Thanasi Kokkinakis (Aus)
Marcos Giron (USA) v Ignacio Buse (Per, 32)

Court 5
Filip Misolic (Aut) v Francisco Cerundolo (Arg, 24)
Anastasia Potapova (Aut, 24) v Darja Semenistaja (Lat)
Kaitlin Quevedo (Sp) v Elise Mertens (Bel, 23)
Jan Choinski (GB) v Botic van de Zandschulp (Ned)

Court 6
Gabriela Knutson (Cze) v Eva Łys (Ger)
Lucie Havlíčkova (Lze) v Anna Bondar (Hun)
Juan Manuel Cerundolo (Arg) v Arthur Gea (Fr)
Magda Linette (Pol) v Fran Jones (GB)

Court 7
Dane Sweeny (Aus) v Corentin Moutet (Fr)
Darja Vidmanova (Cze) v Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (Sp)
Arantxa Rus (Ned) v Leolia Jeanjean (Fr)

Court 10
Mattia Bellucci (It) v Zsombor Piros (Hun)
Jesper de Jong (Ned) v Francesco Passaro (It)
Nikola Bartunkova (Cze) v Mayar Sherif (Egy)

Court 11
Nishesh Basavareddy (USA) v Tristan Schoolmate (Aus)
Tatjana Maria (Ger) v Jelena Ostapenko (Lat, 30)
Fabian Marozsan (Hun) v Michael Zheng (USA)

Court 12
Maria Sakkari (Gre, 32) v Robin Montgomery (USA)
Zizou Bergs (Bel, 31) v Carlos Taberner (Sp)
Zachary Svajda (USA) v Daniel Altmaier (Ger)
Oleksandra Oliynykova (Ukr) v Reese Brantmeier (USA)

Court 13
Yulia Starodubtseva (Ukr) v Ella Seidel (Ger)
Camilo Ugo Carabelli (Arg) v Jan-Lennard Struff (Ger)
Alex Molcan (Svk) v Benjamin Bonzi (Fr)

Hello, hello! Full disclaimer: this is my first day back after nearly three weeks on holiday and I’ve also spent the past three hours trying and completely failing to install some computer updates. So it may take a bit of time before I’m firing on all cylinders. Though Madison Keys, Flavio Cobolli and Elena Rybakina will be hoping for far smoother starts, as they get the action under way on the main courts on this third and final day of the first round, with Mirra Andreeva, Taylor Fritz and Alex de Minaur to follow later in the day session, along with the British trio of Arthur Fery, Jan Choinski and Fran Jones. Coco Gauff, Alexander Zverev, Gael Monfils and Alexandra Eala, meanwhile, play in the evening session* as Monfils - after Stan Wawrinka’s emotional goodbye yesterday - begins his final grand slam on his 40th birthday. Allez Gael! Two send-offs in two days would be too much to handle.

* By which point I estimate there’s a 0.03% chance of me figuring out how to resolve my IT issues