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Mirra Andreeva vs Eva Lys — 6-0 6-2
| Mirra Andreeva✓ | 6 | 6 |
 Eva Lys | 0 | 2 |
Final · Thursday, September 3, 2026 · Round of 64
Result
The first set took twenty minutes and Lys did not win a game in it. Andreeva led 3-0 almost before the Stadium 17 crowd had settled, and the whole match lasted 63 minutes. Lys did get her name on the board early in the second, holding and then breaking for 2-0 to a small cheer, and that was the last game she won: Andreeva took the next six. It was less serene than the scoreline suggests at the end — the closing game went to two saved break points and Andreeva needed a third match point to finish it. The numbers underneath are brutal: Lys served eight double faults and no aces, won 17% of her second-serve points and made 23 unforced errors against seven winners. Andreeva, the Roland Garros champion this year and the fifth seed, broke six times from nine chances. Lys, ranked 98th, had arrived having lost her opening match at four tournaments in a row, so her first-round win over Gabriela Knutson had been a result in itself; she was the last German woman in the draw, Tatjana Maria having gone out on Court 13 minutes earlier.
Rows the source hadn’t published are left off rather than guessed.
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.
Round of 128
What we know now
Court: Stadium 17
Match length: 1:03
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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, 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.
My locked pick: Mirra Andreeva to advance ✓ RIGHT
“41-14 against 6-16, a first-round match without a break point conceded, and no history between them to complicate it.”
Locked 2026-09-01 22:35 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 2026-09-02.
Career head-to-head: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-09-01.
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.
Court & schedule: Stadium 17, Thursday 3 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 2026-09-02)
Weather: Sunday — the men's final, and the last match of the fortnight — is 78°F with showers and thunderstorms 95% likely, the wettest day of the two weeks and the one day that cannot be pushed back. Ashe closes its roof and plays on. It clears overnight: 20% Sunday night, 20% Monday, then dry and sunny from Tuesday. (National Weather Service New York forecast, as of 2026-09-13)
Venue: USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing Meadows, New York — hard.