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Lucie Havlickova vs Anna Bondar — 6-3 6-3
 Anna Bondar✓ | 6 | 6 |
 Lucie Havlickova | 3 | 3 |
Final · Tuesday, September 1, 2026 · Round of 128
Result
Havlickova hit twenty-seven winners to Bondar's eleven and lost in straight sets, which is the whole story: she also made thirty-nine unforced errors, and between them the two produced thirteen double faults in a match that took an hour and forty minutes to cover eighteen games. She broke for 2-1, was broken back at once and dropped serve again for 3-5. In the second set she double-faulted twice in the opening game to go 0-2 and trailed 1-4, then broke back on her fifth break point of a game Bondar had held for 5-1 — and at 3-4 she made four more break points to level and took none of them. She lost the last game to love, a double fault bringing up match point. Havlickova, 21, was on her Grand Slam main-draw debut; the 2022 junior Roland Garros champion did not play between May 2024 and June 2025 and was working shifts in a Prague cafe two years ago. Bondar, who beat Elina Svitolina in this round last year, next plays Madison Keys.
Lucie HavlickovaRows the source hadn’t published are left off rather than guessed.
At this Stage
The Round of 128 is the widest the net ever gets: 64 matches a draw, spread across three days, every seed in action and every qualifier playing the biggest match of the year. This half of the bracket filled in late — qualifying ran a day long after rain pushed the last round to Friday, so these names were still blank slots on draw night. First-round losers leave with $140,000. The winner draws Keys or Korneeva in the Round of 64.
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.
Bondar is 70th and 23–22 on the season — a genuine workhorse year — with 131 career hard-court matches; Havlíčková is a 21-year-old qualifier ranked 225th who is 1–4 at tour level with a 3–8 hard-court record. The winner gets Madison Keys or Alina Korneeva, which is a reason to enjoy this one on its own terms. Bondar in two.
The case for Lucie Havlickova
30% to winHavlíčková is 21 and has just won three matches on these courts; the ranking is a snapshot of a career that is still starting. Bondar's 23–22 record is barely a winning season.
The case for Anna Bondar
70% to winOne hundred and fifty-five ranking places, a second round here in 2025, and 131 career hard-court matches to 11. Bondar plays long rallies well and rarely beats herself, which is the fastest way to end a qualifier's week.
Both cases written 2026-08-29, 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: Anna Bondar to advance ✓ RIGHT
“A 155-place ranking gap and 131 career hard-court matches against 11.”
Locked 2026-08-29 01:40 UTC — rendered verbatim from the pick ledger; never a fresher, hedged version
Tale of the tape
Lucie HavlickovaAnna BondarPlayer 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 2026-08-28.
Storylines
- Havlíčková, 21, is playing her first US Open main draw.
- A 155-place ranking gap — No. 70 against No. 225.
- The winner meets Madison Keys or Alina Korneeva in the second round.
Head to head
They have never met.
Source: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-08-28.
Court & schedule: Court 15, 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 2026-09-01)
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.