Preview US Open ATP & WTA Day Three: Iga Swiatek, Jannik Sinner and Coco Gauff headline Tuesday in New York

The third day of action is incoming at the US Open with iga Swiatek, Jannik Sinner and Coco Gauff all set to take Centre Stage and open their campaigns in New York as we head towards the second round.

Sinner of course is defending champion at the US Open on the men's side of the draw taking down Taylor Fritz last year and it will be interesting in particular to see how he does especially given his recent travails with his Cincinnati Open sudden retirement.

Swiatek, Sinner, Gauff and Zverev headline Arthur Ashe

To start though is Iga Swiatek. A former US Open champion. Anna Kalinskaya was very much open in criticising the fact that Swiatek always gets scheduled early and this perhaps adds credence to this fact albeit perhaps too given that Coco Gauff is the other WTA star on offer today, it was always going to be the case.

She faces Emiliana Arango on Arthur Ashe to begin Tuesday off. She comes into this week having won Cincinnati defeating Jasmine Paolini in the final 7-5, 6-4 after also seeing off Kalinskaya as well as Elena Rybakina and Cleveland champion Sorana Cirstea. This after she lost to Clara Tauson in Canada.

So how to gauge Swiatek is an interesting one as she is a bit more of a dead cert nowadays than she was six months ago and it is very likely she will sail through this opening test without much of an issue but the later tests will gauge how she really stacks up to her competition.

Speaking of Gauff, she opens the Night Session. As expected being the main American in action on Tuesday albeit it can go one of two ways as Madison Keys found out. Gauff slumped to defeat to Emma Navarro last year and peaked at the French Open before having pretty up and down results since. She faces Ajla Tomljanovic, famous mostly for slaying Serena Williams in her final US Open stand. It'll be a long time until Gauff likely leaves the sport but she will have her sights set on another upset.

Especially with Gauff ditching her coaching setup to join forces with a biomechanics coach in Gavin MacMillan. She is looking to finally sort the serve which has blighted her and saw horrific double fault counts in Canada which presumably was the final straw. The first evidence is tonight.

Like alluded to with Sinner, it is a night of question marks with Sinner not playing the mixed doubles either as perhaps expected given that he looked unwell on the sidelines when he retired in Cincinnati. Darren Cahill moved to alleviate all fears of any issues saying he was fine. Perhaps we can just put it down to him being the first symptom of the 12-day Masters 1000 events which have proven to be a cruel mistress especially in the American summer with players passing out a plenty and many just speaking up with displeasure at it happening.

He faces Vit Kopriva though which in theory should be a simple game to get his eye back in. Sinner will look to be again the top dog albeit we don't see him shaving his head like his great rival Carlos Alcaraz anytime soon.