The italian dropped the first set 6 2 before powering through the next three sets dropping just five games against his 140th ranked opponent on arthur ashe stadium. Started a little bit in the not best way, but for sure, the first match in every tournament, they are not easy. You ve got to accept it. I did well in the beginning and i tried to stay there mentally and trying to keep going. So i m very happy to be in the next round, first time that i win here on this court after some attempts. So i m really happy. There were a couple of upsets in the men s draw two big names going out. Number 11 seeed stefanos tsitsipas lost in four sets, beaten by autralian world number 86 thanasi kokkinakis. While the 2021 semi finalist and 19th seed felix auger aliassime lost in straight sets to the 18 year old czech, jakub mensik. To the women s draw then and world number one seed iga swiatek was made to work hard to beat kamilla rakhimova in her opener. The 2022 champion was not at her best with 41
For the presence of banned anabolic agent in his system. The italian dropped the first set 6 2 before powering through the next three sets dropping just five games against his 140th ranked opponent on arthur ashe stadium. Started a little bit in the not best way, but for sure, the first match in every tournament, they are not easy. You ve got to accept it. I did well in the beginning and i tried to stay there mentally and trying to keep going. So i m very happy to be in the next round, first time that i win here on this court after some attempts. So i m really happy. There were a couple of upsets in the men s draw two big names going out. Number 11 seeed stefanos tsitsipas lost in four sets, beaten by autralian world number 86 thanasi kokkinakis. While the 2021 semi finalist and 19th seed felix auger aliassime lost in straight sets to the 18 year old czech, jakub mensik. To the women s draw then and world number one seed iga swiatek was made to work hard to beat kamilla rakhimova in
Best way, but for sure, the first match in every tournament, they are not easy. Youve got to accept it. I did well in the beginning and i tried to stay there mentally and trying to keep going. So im very happy to be in the next round, first time that i win here on this court after some attempts. So im really happy. There were a couple of upsets in the mens draw two big names going out. Number 11 seeed Stefanos Tsitsipas lost in four sets, beaten by Autralian World number 86 thanasi kokkinakis. While 2021 semi finalist and 19th seed felix auger aliassime lost in straight sets to the 18 year old czech, jakub mensik. To the womens draw then and world number one seed iga swiatek was made to work hard to beat Kamilla Rakhimova in her opener. The 2022 champion was not at her best with 41 unforced errors in her 6 4, 7 6 victory that tookjust under two hours on the arthur ashe court. There was an emotional win for two time champion naomi osaka. She beat tenth seed Jelena 0stapenko in straight
Welcome back. The relationship between the United States and china has been severely tested during president biden s term in office. But since may last year, the Us National Security adviser Jake Sullivan has developed something of a connection with wang yi, the senior Foreign Policy official in beijing who answers directly to xi jinping. They met four times in the last year, a channel of communication that has served as something of a Shock Absorber when tensions arise over taiwan, ukraine, the south china sea. Today, sullivan arrived in beijing to continue that conversation, with some suggestion that the two president s might be laying the ground for another meeting Beforejoe Biden Leaves office. Its really interesting, this, annabel, because it seems Jake Sullivan is the back channel between washington and beijing right now, and to what and . Because theres been some Sabre Rattling in respect of ukraine and the special materials ageing is applying to russia will do you think it coul
Well, just to bring you a little bit behind the scenes here, alicia. We know, all day yesterday, topwhite house aides were working the phones including the president , himself, for a portion of it. To try to ease some of these tensions and these feathers that were clearly ruffled. Republicans, upset by the president linking these two things together. But clearly, that didnt work. That wasnt enough. So they had to release this very lengthy statement. More than eight paragraphs in the president s own voice with a commitment saying, essentially, to the two parties, i understand, to the gop, why you might be a little bit upset by what i said in that press conference. But to democrats, rest assured, i am still going to pursue the traditional infrastructure bipartisan package. While also wanting reconciliation process, the one that doesnt require republicans, which democrats had already started down the road a couple of weeks ago. So, he is saying, to the two parties, this was not meant as a