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Mirra Andreeva vs Janice Tjen — 6-2 6-2
| Mirra Andreeva✓ | 6 | 6 |
 Janice Tjen | 2 | 2 |
Final · Tuesday, September 1, 2026 · Round of 128
Result
Andreeva did not face a break point. That is the match: eight service games held, four of four converted on the other side, and a return that left Tjen winning under a third of the points behind her second delivery. Tjen took the opening game of each set and one more besides — four games, all on her own serve — and never led after 2-2 in the first. It was over in sixty-nine minutes, the second match on Louis Armstrong and pushed deep into the afternoon by the five-setter in front of it. The two had met three weeks earlier in the Cincinnati third round, where Tjen took a medical timeout, came back with her racquet hand strapped and forced a second-set tiebreak; there was no such foothold here. Andreeva, 19 and the Roland Garros champion this year, hit eighteen winners to eight. Tjen, who in 2025 became the first Indonesian woman to win a Grand Slam match in more than two decades, has had a harder 2026. Eva Lys is next.
Rows the source hadn’t published are left off rather than guessed.
At this Stage
Round of 128, and the season's youngest major champion starts the second half of her year's argument: Andreeva's Paris title moved her from prodigy to peer, and New York asks whether the all-court game translates at the same altitude. Her section opens the draw's second half; the winner meets Lys or a qualifier next, and the seedings aim her section at a heavyweight Round of 16 with Anisimova, last year's finalist. Tjen gets the rematch nobody envies. Sunday through Tuesday.
What we know now
Court: Louis Armstrong Stadium
Match length: 1:09
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What I said beforehand
The preview, frozen before the first serve. Clearly dated, never rewritten — that's the deal that makes the pick worth anything.
Andreeva. The fifth seed is 19, the reigning Roland-Garros champion — the youngest in Paris since Seles in 1992 — and the owner of a 41–13 season that spans every surface; she also beat Tjen three weeks ago in Cincinnati, 6-1 7-6(5), which doubles as the freshest scouting file in this pairing. Tjen's story is one of the tour's best — the Indonesian breakout whose 2025 carried her to No. 35 — but her 2026 has sagged to 10–21, and the Cincinnati meeting showed the pattern: Andreeva's depth and craft suffocated her first-strike game for a set before the second tightened. New York's faster court helps Tjen's flat hitting slightly; it helps Andreeva's precocious all-court control more. Andreeva in two, the second set competitive again.
The case for Mirra Andreeva
82% to winA major title at 19, a 41-win season, a fifth seeding, and a head-to-head win on this surface three weeks old: Andreeva's case is the sheet itself. Her return depth turns opponents' serves into rally starts, and no first-rounder in her quarter defends better. She also banked extra New York court time in the mixed doubles with Shnaider — semi-finalists, two weeks ago.
The case for Janice Tjen
18% to winTjen's flat, aggressive game took a set to a tiebreak against Andreeva this month — the blueprint (serve big, swing first, shorten everything) is proven to reach 5-5. Her ranking was earned on results that made her one of the sport's freshest stories; a 10–21 season means low expectations, and low expectations swing free.
Both cases written 2026-08-28, before the first ball — frozen into the record exactly as written, whatever the result. The percentages are mine — opinions with a percent sign on. They add to 100 because tennis has no draw to hide the rounding in.
My locked pick: Mirra Andreeva to advance ✓ RIGHT
“A major champion at 19 with a 41–13 season — and she beat this exact opponent on this exact surface three weeks ago.”
Locked 2026-08-28 05:50 UTC — rendered verbatim from the pick ledger; never a fresher, hedged version
Tale of the tape
Player vitals: US Open official player feed (usopen.org) and Tennis Abstract career match logs · as of 2026-08-28.
Career head-to-head: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-08-27.
Storylines
- Andreeva, 19, opens her first US Open as a major champion — her Roland-Garros title in June made her the youngest Paris champion since Monica Seles in 1992.
- She beat Tjen 6-1 7-6(5) in Cincinnati three weeks ago — the freshest head-to-head in the women's first round.
- Andreeva reached the mixed doubles semi-finals here with Diana Shnaider during Fan Week — extra court time no other top-five seed banked.
Head to head
Andreeva leads 1–0 — Cincinnati, three weeks ago, 6-1 7-6(5). The first set was a clinic; the second, a warning that Tjen's pace travels.
Source: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-08-27.
Court & schedule: Louis Armstrong Stadium, Tuesday 1 September. The US Open posts each day's order of play the evening before; this one is on the board. (Official US Open order of play, as of 2026-08-30)
Weather: Sunday — the men's final, and the last match of the fortnight — was forecast at 78°F with showers and thunderstorms 95% likely, the wettest day of the two weeks and the one day that could not be pushed back. The rain came in the morning and stopped before the final, which Ashe played with its roof open. It cleared from there: 15% overnight, 15% Monday, then dry and sunny. (National Weather Service New York forecast, as of 2026-09-13)
Venue: USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing Meadows, New York — hard.