00:01Filipino tennis star Alex Ayala enters the third round of the U.S. Open after a masterful 6-1-6
00:07-4
00:07victory over Ukraine's Oleksandra Olenokova at the Louis Armstrong Stadium in New York.
00:12Living up to her billing as the 17th seed, Ayala wins the first nine points en route to a 4
00:17-0 lead
00:18before she clinches the opening set in just 23 minutes. Olenokova, ranked 46th in the world,
00:24refuses to go down without a fight, grabbing a 2-1 lead in the second set and battling back to
00:29level at 3-3 before Ayala closes out the match by winning three of the final four games.
00:34Just four months ago in May, Ayala fell to Olenokova at the Strasbourg Open in France.
00:39Up next for Ayala in the round of 32 is the winner between American World No. 14 Iva Jovic
00:45and British World No. 104 Francesca Jones.
