HIGHLIGHTS-Tennis-US Open day two

Aug 25 (Reuters) - Highlights of the first day at the U.S. Open at Flushing Meadows on Monday (times GMT):

0145 VENUS WILLIAMS BEATEN BY MUCHOVA

Twice champion Venus Williams suffered a first-round exit after falling to Czech 11th seed Karolina Muchova 6-3 2-6 6-1.

On the men's side, Norwegian 12th seed and 2022 runner-up Casper Ruud advanced after 6-1 6-2 7-6(5) win over Austrian Sebastian Ofner.

2004 DRAPER OVERCOMES GOMEZ

Britain's Jack Draper made a strong start to his U.S. Open run, defeating Argentine qualifier Federico Agustin Gomez 6-4 7-5 6-7(7) 6-2 in the opening round despite a slip in the third set.

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1854 KEYS OUT AFTER ZARAZUA LOSS

U.S. home favourite Madison Keys suffered a first-round exit in a major upset, as the sixth seed fell 6-7(10) 7-6(3) 7-5 to Mexico's Renata Zarazua.

1850 RYBAKINA EASES PAST PAREJA

Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina had little trouble reaching the second round as the ninth seed beat American Julieta Pareja 6-3 6-0 in just over an hour.

1638 KREJCIKOVA KNOCKS OUT MBOKO

Twice Grand Slam champion Barbora Krejcikova beat Canadian Open winner Victoria Mboko 6-3 6-2 in the first round.

1507 PLAY UNDER WAY

Play began under partly cloudy skies in New York, with the temperature around 26 degrees Celsius (78.8 degrees Fahrenheit).

U.S. OPEN ORDER OF PLAY ON MONDAY (prefix number denotes seeding)

ARTHUR ASHE STADIUM (1530 GMT/1130 AM ET)

6-Madison Keys (U.S.) v Renata Zarazua (Mexico)

17-Frances Tiafoe (U.S.) v Yoshihito Nishioka (Japan)

Venus Williams (U.S.) v 11-Karolina Muchova (Czech Republic)

Reilly Opelka (U.S.) v 2-Carlos Alcaraz (Spain)

LOUIS ARMSTRONG STADIUM (1500 GMT/11 AM ET)

Barbora Krejcikova (Czech Republic) v 22-Victoria Mboko (Canada)

Federico Agustin Gomez (Argentina) v 5-Jack Draper (Britain)

Sebastian Ofner (Austria) v 12-Casper Ruud (Norway)

Alycia Parks (U.S.) v 5-Mirra Andreeva (Russia)