US Open 2019: Evans, Kvitova, Zverev, Halep, Osaka and Konta in action – live!

Come to think of it won’t even be the last we hear of McNally this fortnight, because she’s partnering a certain Coco Gauff in the doubles.

One of the coolest men in New York right now though is probably Novak Djokovic, who said after his injury-hit, 6-4, 7-6 (3), 6-1 win over Argentina’s Juan Ignacio Londero last night that he’d like to freeze his left shoulder for the next 48 hours. It was clearly causing him some pain, and it will give Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and the chasing pack behind tennis’s triumvirate (if those young pretenders can get their act together) hope that perhaps the defending champion, who has won four of the past five slams, is beatable.

Djokovic’s was among eight singles matches to be completed on the show courts yesterday, with Federer, Serena Williams and Ashleigh Barty also afforded the luxury of a roof. Williams had the toughest time of it, pushed to three sets in an absorbing encounter by an opponent not even half her age, the American grand slam rookie Caty McNally. It certainly won’t be the last we hear of the 17-year-old.

Hello and welcome to our coverage of day four of the US Open, where the scene looks less like this…

And more like this …

Which is just as well, given Wednesday’s washout on the roofless courts means there are an extra 23 singles matches to squeeze into today’s second-round schedule. Dan Evans will be among the first of those playing catch-up in just over 20 minutes’ time, as the British No 2 faces the French 25th seed, Lucas Pouille, on Court 12, where the prize (or possible punishment) for victory will be a meeting with Roger Federer. Johanna Konta, Britain’s other singles survivor, having made it on to court for her warm-up yesterday only to be rained on almost immediately, is now second on Court 5 against Russia’s Margarita Gasparyan, so is likely to play at around 1pm local time/6pm BST.

Elsewhere the names will be coming thick and fast. Alex Zverev? Check. Simona Halep? Check. Petra Kvitova? Check. Naomi Osaka? Check. Stan Wawrinka, Nick Kyrgios and the on-fire Daniil Medvedev? Check, check and check. And we haven’t even mentioned Rafael Nadal, Coco Gauff, Marin Cilic and Caroline Wozniacki, who play in the night session, or the shooting stars of Bianca Andreescu, Denis Shapovalov and Andrey Rublev, who accounted for Stefanos Tsitsipas in the first round.

Play begins at: 11am in New York/4pm BST. Strap yourself in. It’s going to be fast and frantic. And fairly sweaty too, with temperatures forecast to hit 30 degrees.