Rain in New York City restricted US Open play to about 10 matches on Day Two. So Day Three saw a multitude of tennis on all courts all day and night.
Among plenty of delayed round one matches and normally scheduled second round battles, upsets were obviously going to occur, and there were some real surprises.
In a clash of the youngsters, fourth seed Sascha Zverev fell to Borna Coric 6-3 5-7 6-7 (1) 6-7 (4).
Yet again, expectations have overwhelmed the German's results at Grand Slam level.
This year five titles including two Masters 1000, but out of Aus Open in 3rd round, Roland Garros 1st round and Wimbledon 4th round. Now a 2nd round exit in New York.
Fifth seed Caroline Wozniacki surrendered the slim possibility of returning to number one when Ekaterina Makarova booted her from the tournament in a three set triumph for the Russian. The third set was full on attack and most impressive from Makarova, something even the renowned defence of Wozniacki was inadequate to handle.
Finalist in Cincinnati, fourteenth seed Nick Kyrgios, was ousted in a first round match by fellow Aussie John Millman in four sets. After dropping the opening set, Nick appeared back on track cleaning up the second set 6-1. However Millman retained his composure and dominated the rest of the match, breaking the Kyrgios serve more easily than one would expect. The last two sets were won 6-4 6-1.
Kristina Mladenovic (14) was thrashed by unseeded Monica Niculescu 6-3 6-2 in a first round match, and Dominika Cibulkova (11) lost to a resurgent Sloane Stephens in three sets.
One of the final results at night was a delight for Canadians as their Israeli born 18 year old Denis Shapovalov, after coming through qualifying, defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in a straight sets second round clash.
Other seeds to fall by the wayside:
Gilles Muller (19) done over by Paolo Lorenzi in a second round match
Shual Peng (22) beaten by Donna Vekic 6-0 6-2 in a second round match
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (19) lost to home favourite Christina McHale in round one
Anett Kontaveit (26) out to Lucie Safarova in first round
Fabio Fognini (22) defeated by Stefano Travaglia in round one
Richard Gasquet (26) gone thanks to Leonardo Mayer in round one
Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (29) ousted by Carla Suarez Navarro in the second round
Albert Ramos-Vinolas (20) defeated by Nicolas Mahut in the second round
Pablo Cuevas (27) defeated by Damir Dzumhur in the first round
Dimitrov, Isner, Muguruza, Kvitova, Cilic and Williams are among those to have impressed early in the tournament.
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