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Katy Murrells1 Sept 2026, 03:09 pmUpdated 2h ago4 min readSportSport

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US Open 2026: Fery, Rybakina, Fritz and Keys in action on day three – live

Here come Cobolli and Comesana, with the Louis Armstrong roof keeping out the rain and ramping up the atmosphere . While it’s been a breakout summer for Cobolli, having reached the French Open final and Wimbledon last eight, Comesana’s had a rough 2026, winning only seven matches all year. Cobolli’s flashy, shotmaking game will likely be too much for the world No 119 from Buenos Aires today, but the Italian does have a point to prove at the US Open, having never been beyond the third round.

Away from Arthur Ashe and Louis Armstrong, it’s been confirmed that play won’t start until at least midday New York time/5pm BST.

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, and Flavio Cobolli will be on court very shortly against Argentina’s Francisco Comesana.

Arthur Ashe Stadium 11.30am New York/4.30pm BST

Taylor Fritz (USA, 9) v Darwin Blanch (USA)

Flavio Cobolli (It, 5) v Francisco Comesana (Arg)

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)

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)

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)

Lucie Havlíčkova (Lze) v Anna Bondar (Hun)

Juan Manuel Cerundolo (Arg) v Arthur Gea (Fr)

Darja Vidmanova (Cze) v Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (Sp)

Mattia Bellucci (It) v Zsombor Piros (Hun)

Jesper de Jong (Ned) v Francesco Passaro (It)

Nikola Bartunkova (Cze) v Mayar Sherif (Egy)

Nishesh Basavareddy (USA) v Tristan Schoolmate (Aus)

Tatjana Maria (Ger) v Jelena Ostapenko (Lat, 30)

Fabian Marozsan (Hun) v Michael Zheng (USA)

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)

Yulia Starodubtseva (Ukr) v Ella Seidel (Ger)

Camilo Ugo Carabelli (Arg) v Jan-Lennard Struff (Ger)

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