GB's Watson, Jubb & Kartal win in US Open qualifiers

Great Britain's Heather Watson, Paul Jubb and Sonay Kartal made it done nan first information of qualifying for nan US Open.

Former British number 1 Watson moved past past year's inferior Wimbledon champion Clervie Ngounoue pinch a comfortable 6-1 6-1 triumph successful 69 minutes.

Jubb, 193rd successful nan world, triumphed successful an all-British encounter, beating Jacob Fearnley 6-1 7-6 (7-2) contempt being classed 33 places little than his compatriot.

Kartal, who reached nan 3rd information astatine Wimbledon this twelvemonth earlier falling to 2nd seed Coco Gauff, won 6-3 6-3 against Spain's Guiomar Maristany.

There was disappointment, however, for Liam Broady, who fell to a 7-5 7-6 (9-7) conclusion by Finland's Otto Virtanen.

Broady, 30, missed nan commencement of nan grass-court play aft suffering a concussion from hitting his caput connected nan footwear of his car.

Billy Harris, Jan Choinski, Oliver Crawford, Fran Jones and Lily Miyazaki will play their first-round qualifiers connected Tuesday.

The main tie astatine Flushing Meadows starts connected 26 August.