Coco Vandeweghe, 16 and with a strong athletic pedigree -- her grandfather, Dr. Ernie Vandeweghe, went to Oceanside HS and played six seasons with the Knicks in the early 1950s, and her uncle, Kiki, is the Nets' GM -- just dropped the first set to No. 2 seed Jelena Jankovic, 6-3. Coco hits the ball hard, but unsurprisingly in her first Open, she's a little nerve-wracked.
Over in Armstrong, Juan Martin Del Potro, the men's 17th seed and winner of 19 straight matches (and four titles) coming in, is down a set and a break to journeyman Guillermo Canas. del Potro won twice on hard courts in the States (L.A. and D.C.), so it was thought he could make a run here. Time to pick it up if he wants to do that.
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