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Buyukakcay first through at US Open

By AFP
August 29, 2016

NEW YORK: Cagla Buyukakcay was the first player to punch a second-round ticket as the US Open tennis championships got underway on Monday, with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Irina Falconi.

Turkey´s Buyukakcay, ranked 66th in the world, needed just 59 minutes to get past America´s Falconi and set up a second-round meeting with either two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic, the 14th seed, or Latvia´s Jelena Ostapenko.