{"id":78104,"date":"2026-08-31T09:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/us-open-2026-alcaraz-and-sabalenka-enter-fray-on-day-two-after-djokovic-shock-live\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:55:06","slug":"us-open-2026-alcaraz-and-sabalenka-enter-fray-on-day-two-after-djokovic-shock-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/us-open-2026-alcaraz-and-sabalenka-enter-fray-on-day-two-after-djokovic-shock-live\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open 2026: Alcaraz and Sabalenka enter fray on day two after Djokovic shock \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/31\/novak-djokovic-defeated-mariano-navone-us-open-first-round-earliest-exit-in-20-years\">Ailing Djokovic goes out<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/31\/venus-williams-sofia-kenin-us-open-first-round\">Williams loses after 2am start<\/a><br \/> You can <a href=\"mailto:taha.hashim@theguardian.com\">email Taha<\/a> and follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@guardiansport\">TikTok<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/sport.theguardian.com\">Bluesky<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A 12.13am start! <\/strong>It\u2019s a no from me.<\/p>\n<p>Hello, hello, hello and welcome to another day of action at Flushing Meadows. We\u2019ve got two weeks left of this thing and, somehow, Novak Djokovic is already out of the picture, having suffered his first first-round loss at a slam since January 2006. <em>Wild<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/aug\/31\/us-open-2026-alcaraz-sabalenka-day-two-tennis-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ailing Djokovic goes out | Williams loses after 2am start You can email Taha and follow us on TikTok and Bluesky A 12.13am start! It\u2019s a no from me. Hello, hello, hello and welcome to another day of action at Flushing Meadows. We\u2019ve got two weeks left of this thing and, somehow, Novak Djokovic is &#8230; <a title=\"US Open 2026: Alcaraz and Sabalenka enter fray on day two after Djokovic shock \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/us-open-2026-alcaraz-and-sabalenka-enter-fray-on-day-two-after-djokovic-shock-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US Open 2026: Alcaraz and Sabalenka enter fray on day two after Djokovic shock \u2013 live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}