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Marie Bouzkova vs Elsa Jacquemot — 6-2 6-2
 Marie Bouzkova✓ | 6 | 6 |
 Elsa Jacquemot | 2 | 2 |
Final · Monday, August 31, 2026 · Round of 128
Result
Jacquemot broke to open the match and never broke again. Seven double faults to none, three service games held from eight, 41 points won to 61 — the 23-year-old from Lyon is serving badly enough that TennisActu had her falling to around 175th in the world after this fortnight. Bouzkova hit 25 winners to 11 unforced errors, converted five of eight break points, and was done in 1 hour 26 minutes on Court 10. The 25th seed next plays the winner of Harriet Dart and Peyton Stearns.
Marie BouzkovaRows the source hadn’t published are left off rather than guessed.
At this Stage
Round of 128 as a sequel with the billing reversed: last year Jacquemot ambushed Bouzková on these courts; this year the Czech returns seeded, in form, and holding the fresher head-to-head chapter. The winner meets Stearns or a qualifier in the Round of 64, in the quarter the seedings hand to Rybakina and Świątek. Redemption arcs in tennis are usually just form charts — Sunday tests whether this one is more. Sunday through Tuesday.
What we know now
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.
Bouzková — with revenge as the working theme. Jacquemot beat her on these courts a year ago, 6-4 6-3 in the first round, one of 2025's quieter upsets; Bouzková answered in Miami this spring, 6-2 6-2, and arrives as the 25th seed off a 29–19 season while the Frenchwoman has slumped to 6–20. The trajectory since New York could not diverge harder: Bouzková's counterpunching machine has been winning ugly all year; Jacquemot has been losing close and then not-close. The Czech's style — nothing free, everything returned — is brutal against a struggling opponent's confidence. The 2025 result earns the caveat; the 2026 seasons overwhelm it. Bouzková in two.
The case for Marie Bouzkova
78% to winBouzková avenged New York emphatically in Miami (6-2 6-2), arrives seeded off a 29-win season, and plays the exact style — relentless depth, zero donations — that a confidence-starved opponent least wants. The 2025 upset came from a Jacquemot who no longer shows up on current evidence.
The case for Elsa Jacquemot
22% to winJacquemot has already beaten Bouzková at this tournament — same round, twelve months ago — and rediscovering that version of herself against the same opponent is as clean a reset button as a 6–20 season could ask for. Her shot-making ceiling is higher; Miami was a bad day, not a verdict.
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: Marie Bouzkova to advance ✓ RIGHT
“The seasons (29–19 against 6–20) and Miami's emphatic answer — last year's ambush requires a version of Jacquemot 2026 hasn't produced.”
Locked 2026-08-28 06:15 UTC — rendered verbatim from the pick ledger; never a fresher, hedged version
Tale of the tape
Marie BouzkovaElsa JacquemotPlayer 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
- Jacquemot beat Bouzková in this tournament's first round last year — the head-to-head's opening chapter; Bouzková answered 6-2 6-2 in Miami.
- Bouzková's 29–19 season carries her 25th seeding; Jacquemot's 6–20 is among the most difficult years of any direct entrant.
- The rubber match repeats the venue of chapter one — same tournament, same round, reversed expectations.
Head to head
One–one, and the venue repeats: Jacquemot 6-4 6-3 in this tournament's first round last year; Bouzková 6-2 6-2 in Miami in March. New York hosts the decider of its own sequel.
Source: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-08-27.
Court & schedule: Court 10, Monday 31 August. 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.