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Anouk Koevermans vs 
Caty McNally
Sunday, August 30, 2026 · Round of 128
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My pick: Caty McNally to advance · locked 2026-08-29 01:40 UTCPrediction
McNally is 64th, 24–19 on the season and a third-rounder here in 2020; Koevermans is a 228th-ranked qualifier who is 2–4 at tour level with a 1–3 hard-court record. This is the largest ranking gap of any match in this batch. McNally's return game and doubles-honed hands are far too much. Straight sets.
The case for Anouk Koevermans
22% to winKoevermans has three qualifying wins here this week and, at 228th, nothing whatsoever to lose. McNally is a home player carrying expectation into a first round, which is its own weight.
The case for Caty McNally
78% to winOne hundred and sixty-four ranking places, a 24–19 season, 115 career hard-court matches to Koevermans's four, and a third round at this tournament. Playing at home is a help, not a hindrance, in the first round.
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.
Tale of the tape
Anouk KoevermansCaty McNallyPlayer 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.
The briefing
Storylines
- The widest ranking gap in this batch: No. 64 against No. 228.
- Koevermans is playing her first Grand Slam main draw at 22.
- McNally's third round here in 2020 came as an 18-year-old wild card.
Head to head
They have never met.
Source: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-08-28.
Watch: Opening-round coverage runs across ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC, with ESPN Deportes in Spanish — and every court streams in the ESPN app, including the whip-around channel that only exists in the early rounds. (ESPN press-room release and listings, as of 2026-08-27)
Court & schedule: Not yet assigned. Days one and two of the main draw are on the board; this match falls in the back half of the first round, and the US Open posts each day's order of play the evening before. (Official US Open order-of-play release cadence, as of 2026-08-28)
Weather: The forecast cooled since the draw: Sunday opens partly sunny near 80°F with a slight shower chance after 2 p.m., and a 40% chance of showers and thunderstorms arrives with Sunday night. Monday is similar at 81°F, and the storm odds climb through Tuesday and Wednesday. Ashe and Armstrong close their roofs; the field courts wait. (National Weather Service New York forecast, as of 2026-08-28)
Venue: USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing Meadows, New York — hard.
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 Navarro or Boisson in the Round of 64.
