the final major of the tennis season, the us open gets under way on monday. iga swiatek will be defending the women s title. the world no i arrives in new york after defeat in the cincinnati 0pen semi finals to coco gauff, but she has had a great year, successfully defending her french open title and a career best performance at wimbledon. she knows her way around the grand slams. i try to take everything step by step and go forward with my thoughts and think that i need to do something more, because last year i won. so, remembering that this is a totally different chapter always helps, but i also want to kind of take a lesson from last year and i learned a lot during the us open. this was probably the most important tournament in terms of me believing in myself. denmark s andreas kron secured an emotional win on a weather affected stage two