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Anna Kalinskaya vs Xinyu Wang — 7-5 2-6 6-3
| Anna Kalinskaya✓ | 7 | 2 | 6 |
 Xinyu Wang | 5 | 6 | 3 |
Final · Wednesday, September 2, 2026 · Round of 64
Result
The longest of the day's second rounds, 2hr 22min on Court 7, and the 21st seed won it while losing the total-points count 95-94. Wang hit 39 winners to Kalinskaya's 22 and put more first serves in, 70% to 64%, and also made 41 unforced errors to 38. Neither held reliably: they converted three break points each, from eleven chances and nine, and served thirteen double faults between them, eight of them Kalinskaya's. Kalinskaya led 3-1 in the first before Wang levelled at 4-4 and forced 5-5; the seed took the last two games. Wang then ran to 5-1 in the second and closed it 6-2. In the decider Kalinskaya went 4-1 up, was pegged back to 5-3, and served it out. It is a third consecutive US Open third round for Kalinskaya, who has never gone beyond that stage here and is into the last 32 at a major for the eighth time. No narrative report of the match existed an hour after it finished.
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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.
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What we know now
What I said beforehand
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Kalinskaya leads the head-to-head 2-1 and has come through the first round in New York seven years running, which is the sort of record that stops being a coincidence. Her all-Russian opener against Anna Blinkova was a 6-4 6-3 in 1 hour 28 minutes built on 34 winners to seven — and 31 unforced errors, a high-variance afternoon that still never looked like being lost. Wang was the more economical of the two: 6-4 6-2 over Emiliana Arango in 1 hour 18, 31 winners to eight, four breaks from ten chances, 17 of 22 at the net. At No. 43 to Kalinskaya's No. 23 she is the underdog on paper, but their three meetings have split across three surfaces and eight years, and Wang won the most recent, at Strasbourg in 2024. Wang has been to the fourth round here; Kalinskaya's best is a third round.
The case for Anna Kalinskaya
62% to winKalinskaya has got out of the first round here seven years in a row and is 7-1 at the tournament in that round. She leads the head-to-head 2-1, hit 34 winners to Blinkova's seven, and won 79% of her first-serve points — the strike rate of a player finding range rather than grinding. At No. 23 to Wang's No. 43 she is the higher-ranked player, on a 152–107 hard-court record, and her only defeat to Wang came on clay.
The case for Xinyu Wang
38% to winWang was the tidier winner on Monday — 78 minutes, 31 winners to eight, four breaks from ten — and she won the most recent meeting between them, 6-4 7-6(3) at Strasbourg in 2024. She is 6′0″ with a flatter ball than Kalinskaya's and has been to the fourth round at this tournament, one round further than Kalinskaya has ever gone. Kalinskaya's 31 unforced errors on Monday are an invitation.
Both cases written 2026-08-31, 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 Kalinskaya to advance ✓ RIGHT
“Twenty ranking places, the head-to-head, and a first-round record here that runs seven years deep.”
Locked 2026-08-31 20:50 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 2026-08-31.
Storylines
- Kalinskaya beat Anna Blinkova 6-4 6-3 with 34 winners to seven, and has now come through the first round in New York seven years running.
- Wang beat Emiliana Arango 6-4 6-2 in 1 hour 18, winning 17 of her 22 net points.
- Kalinskaya leads the head-to-head 2-1, but Wang won the most recent meeting, at Strasbourg in 2024.
- Wang has reached the fourth round here (2023); Kalinskaya's best is a third round.
- Kalinskaya made 31 unforced errors on Monday to Wang's 32 — neither opener was clean.
Head to head
Kalinskaya leads 2-1: Australian Open qualifying in 2020 and Guadalajara in 2022, both on hard courts, against Wang's 6-4 7-6(3) on clay at Strasbourg in 2024.
Source: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-08-31.
Court & schedule: Court 7, Wednesday 2 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.