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Arthur Ashe Stadium: Top seed Aryna Sabalenka unseeded Polina Kudermetova, 7-6(4), 6-2, in a second-round match in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Thursday.

Reaching the Australian Open and Roland Garros finals, plus the semifinals at Wimbledon, would be a career year for most players. But the bar is set so high for the No. 1-ranked Sabalenka, a three-time Grand Slam winner, that she’s eager to cap the summer minus a bummer.

If Sabalenka can repeat as the US Open women’s singles champion, she will become the first player to do so since Serena Williams, 2012-14. But, there have been 10 different women titlists in the last 11 years in New York City.