Draw of the US Open: Goffin against a Frenchman and Darcis falls on Lajovic

Tennis

The Frenchman Corentin Moutet (ATP 83) will be the opponent of David Goffin (ATP 15) in the first round of the US Open, the fourth and last Grand Slam tournament of the season, whose draw took place Thursday at New York. Steve Darcis (ATP 186), present in the final table thanks to a protected classification, inherited the Serbian Dusan Lajovic (ATP 28).

This will be the second match between Goffin, 28, and Mouttet, 20, the number one Belgian had beaten last year at Roland Garros. If he passes the first round, Goffin could meet the next round the British Cameron Norrie (ATP 60), opposed to a qualified in the first round. If he reached the round of 16, the Liege could find the Swiss Roger Federer (ATP 3), who had beaten in the finals of the field tournament Halle this year. David Goffin, who has never been further than Flushing Meadows in the round of 16, arrived in New York after reaching the final of the Masters 1000 Cincinnati last week, against the Russian Daniil Medvedev (ATP 5). Steve Darcis inherited a complicated draw for his introduction. The 35-year-old Sprimontois will meet the 27-seeded Serbian Dusan Lajovic (ATP 28), whom he beat in their only ATP showdown in Beijing in 2017. Darcis, present in the final table thanks to a protected classification, has not played on hard surface this season. He is playing the US Open for the 10th time. He has never gone further than the second round, which he has achieved five times.

A Swiss woman for Elise Mertens, a Slovak woman for Alison Van Uytvanck in the first round

Elise Mertens inherited Switzerland's Jil Teichmann and Alison Van Uytvanck from Slovakia's Viktoria Kuzmova in the first round of the US Open, the fourth and final throne of the Flushing Meadows cement season in New York. Elise Mertens, The 23-year-old, 26th in the world, will face the opposition, and for the first time on the circuit, Switzerland's Jil Teichmann, 22, is the 59th player in the world. This will be the fourth appearance at the US Open of the number 1 Belgian with the best result a last round of 16 last year.

Alison Van Uytvanck, 25, 66th at the WTA, will be looking to take on the challenge of 21-year-old Slovak Viktoria Kuzmova (WTA 54). The two players met twice last year with a hard win in Budapest for Alison Van Uytvanck (6-4, 6-2), in the semi-finals on the road to her final victory and another for Kuzmova on the turf of Rosmalen (3-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-2, this is the sixth time that Van Uytvanck will compete in the US Open having never yet first round The two Belgians could be joined by Kirsten Flipkens, who climbed to the third and final qualifying round on Thursday in New York The 33-year-old Campinoise, the 109th player in the world, defeated Serb Jovana Jaksic (WTA 244) 6 -2, 6-0 Kirsten Flipkens, seeded fifth seed, will face Sweden's Johanna Larsson (WTA 172) for a place in the final draw.