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U.S. Open 2024: Coco Gauff, Olympic gold medalist Zheng win

their first-round matches

By BRIAN MAHONEY Zheng said.
AP Sports Writer “I had this experience al-
NEW YORK (AP) — Coco ready, so this time when I
Gauff had an easy start to had success in the Olym-
her U.S. Open title defense, pic Games, to come to
rolling to a 6-2, 6-0 victory the next tournament, I say,
over Varvara Gracheva on everything starts at zero.
Monday. You are not anymore the
Gauff needed just over Olympic champion. Just
an hour, looking more like be humble and try to work,
the player who won her fight every single match,
first major title last year at because if you don’t fight,
age 19 than the one who you have a big chance to
had dropped her last two lose.”
matches before coming to Maria Sakkari, the No. 9
New York. seed from Greece, be-
Zheng Qinwen, the Olym- came the first seeded play-
pic gold medalist in wom- er to be eliminated when
en’s tennis, stayed in the she stopped playing after
tournament by rallying for losing the first set against
a 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 victory over China’s Wang Yafan.
Amanda Anisimova. Sakkari, who also lost in the
Zheng began the Grand first round last year at Flush-
Slam season by reaching ing Meadows, received
the final of the Australian Coco Gauff, of the United States, reacts after defeating Varvara Gracheva, of France, during the treatment on her shoulder
Open. She had a difficult as- first round of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Monday, Aug. 26, 2024, in New York. in the first set.
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signment to start the year’s Men’s winners Monday
final major in Anisimova, an WTA rankings. tention back to the Grand a long time in the success- included No. 4 Alexan-
American who earlier this But the No. 7 seed from Slams after becoming Chi- ful feeling. I did that in the der Zverev, No. 6 Andrey
month reached the final of China solved Anisimova’s na’s first singles gold med- Australian Open but I was Rublev, No. 8 Casper Ruud,
a hard-court warmup tour- power as the match went alist at the Paris Olympics. just in the final, and the and Americans Taylor Fritz
nament in Montreal and re- on to move into the second “You have the first one, of effect takes me so long and Ben Shelton, the Nos.
turned to the top 50 of the round as she turns her at- course you’re going to stay to come back to reality,” 12 and 13 seeds. q

Double-duty Danny Jansen plays for both teams in one MLB game.

Here’s how

By JIMMY GOLEN by rain. “Defensive chang- lis. Ellis was also working the make history.” (As the century and a half of his-
AP Sports Writer es: Danny Jansen now at game when it started in backup, Jansen’s primary tory but also embraced his
BOSTON (AP) — Blue Jays- catcher.” June. job is to keep No. 1 catcher spot in baseball lore.
turned-Red Sox catcher Playing for Toronto on June “This scorecard will be a Connor Wong from over- “Any time you can be a
Danny Jansen didn’t just 26, Jansen fouled off the great tool to document work.) part of this great game’s
play for both teams in the only pitch he saw from Kut- and illustrate this history, Jansen said he was sur- history,” he said, “it’s pretty
same game a first in major ter Crawford in the second showing Danny Jansen’s prised it had never hap- unique.”q
league baseball history. inning before the tarps name on both teams,” Hall pened before in the sport’s
He played for both teams were called out. On July spokesman John Shesta-
in the same inning. 27, Jansen was traded from kofsky said.
Jansen became the first Toronto to Boston for three When the ballpark opened
major leaguer ever to ap- minor leaguers. to fans, the scoreboards
pear on both sides of a With Jansen behind the were showing Jansen at
baseball box score when plate on Monday, Nick Piv- bat for the Blue Jays —
he took the field for Bos- etta struck Varsho out to complete with a picture
ton on Monday in the re- complete the at-bat Jan- of him in his Toronto cap.
sumption of a rain-delayed sen started. Then Jansen Before the first pitch, the
game he started for Toron- came up for Boston with umpires held an extended
to in June before he was two outs in the bottom half, conversation at home with
traded to the Red Sox. getting a nice cheer from the coaches who brought
“Pinch-hitting for Danny a sparse makeup game out some of the weirdest
Jansen: Dalton Varsho,” crowd, and hit a lazy liner lineup cards in baseball his-
Red Sox media relations to first base to end the in- tory.
coordinator Daveson Per- ning. Red Sox manager Alex
ez announced in the press An authenticator was on Cora embraced the quirki- Boston Red Sox catcher Danny Jansen, left, tries to throw out a
runner on a steal attempt as Toronto Blue Jays Daulton Varsho,
box before the first pitch hand to tag all of Jansen’s ness of the occasion, put- who pinch-hit for Jansen, strikes out during the resumption of
on Monday afternoon, equipment, and the Base- ting Jansen in the lineup for the second inning of a baseball game which was delayed due
which came 65 days, 18 ball Hall of Fame said it the makeup game instead to rain in June, against the Toronto Blue Jays at Fenway Park,
hours and 35 minutes after requested the scorecard of the regularly scheduled Monday, Aug. 26, 2024, in Boston.
the game was suspended from official scorer Bob El- night game, saying, “Let’s Associated Press