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Mirra Andreeva vs 
Eva Lys
Round of 64
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My pick: Mirra Andreeva to advance · locked 2026-09-01 22:35 UTCPrediction
Andreeva, heavily, and Tuesday is the reason. She beat Janice Tjen 6-2 6-2 without facing a single break point, held all eight of her service games, converted every one of the four she earned, and was off court in sixty-nine minutes. Lys spent seventy-two minutes beating a 29-year-old qualifier who was making her Grand Slam main-draw debut, and did it having lost her four previous opening matches and while sliding towards the edge of the top 100. The season records are 41-14 and 6-16. Andreeva is the Roland Garros champion, 19 years old, ranked fifth, and the only real question is whether a player whose whole year has been played at altitude can be dragged into the kind of long, flat, high-margin rally Lys is happy to have. That is a thin hope against someone whose return is currently the best part of her game. They have never met.
The case for Mirra Andreeva
84% to winAndreeva won her first major at Roland Garros in June and is 41-14 on the season, 68-32 on hard courts for her career at 19. She did not concede a break point on Tuesday and has beaten Lys's kind of opponent all year without fuss. She also has the recent record against a player who took her deep: three weeks ago in Cincinnati she beat Janice Tjen in a testing second set and then beat her again here in an hour and nine minutes.
The case for Eva Lys
16% to winLys has just done the hardest thing available to her — win a first-round match at a major after four straight opening-round defeats — and did it in a stadium of German supporters on Court 6. She is 59-41 on hard courts for her career, and her second round here in 2025 says she can string two together. Nothing about a 6-16 season suggests she troubles the fifth seed, but a player with nothing left to lose and a first win banked is a different proposition from the one who walked on Tuesday.
Both cases written 2026-09-01, 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
Player vitals: US Open official player feed (usopen.org) and Tennis Abstract career match logs · as of 2026-09-01.
Career head-to-head: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-09-01.
The briefing
Storylines
- They have never played each other.
- Andreeva beat Janice Tjen 6-2 6-2 without facing a break point, holding all eight of her service games.
- Lys beat the qualifier Gabriela Knutson 6-3 6-3 to become the first German into the second round here this year.
- Lys had lost her four previous opening matches and is close to dropping out of the top 100; her season record is 6-16.
- Andreeva won Roland Garros in June, her first Grand Slam title, and has never been past the third round in New York.
Head to head
They have never met at tour level.
Source: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-09-01.
Watch: Second-round coverage runs across ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC, with ESPN Deportes in Spanish — and every court streams in the ESPN app, which is where a match away from the two show courts will live. (ESPN press-room release and listings, as of 2026-08-27)
Court & schedule: Not yet assigned. The US Open posts each day's order of play the evening before, and this match has not reached the board yet. (Official US Open order-of-play release cadence, as of 2026-09-01)
Weather: Tonight is the last of the wet weather and the worst of it: showers and thunderstorms at 84% before the sky clears to mostly cloudy on a low near 71°F. Wednesday is the break the tournament has been waiting for — near 75°F on an 18% chance of a shower — though storms creep back after dark at 65%. Thursday is the unsettled one, warm at 81°F with showers and thunderstorms likely at 65% and 53% overnight. Friday turns: near 82°F and mostly sunny on 10%, the first clean day of the fortnight, with Saturday better still. Ashe and Armstrong close their roofs and play on; everything else waits. (National Weather Service New York forecast, as of 2026-09-01)
Venue: USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing Meadows, New York — hard.
At this Stage
The Round of 64 halves the draw again: 32 women's matches across Wednesday and Thursday, every one of them between players who have already won here this week. The seeds who came through the opening round now meet opponents with form behind them rather than a ranking.
