HIGHLIGHTS-Tennis-U.S. Open day four

Highlights of the fourth day at the U.S. Open, the last Grand Slam tournament of the year, at Flushing Meadows on Thursday (times in GMT): 1743 BARTY STROLLS PAST TAUSON Top seed Ash Barty of Australia hardly broke sweat as she beat tournament debutant Clara Tauson 6-1 7-5.

Highlights of the fourth day at the U.S. Open, the last Grand Slam tournament of the year, at Flushing Meadows on Thursday (times in GMT): 1743 BARTY STROLLS PAST TAUSON

Top seed Ash Barty of Australia hardly broke sweat as she beat tournament debutant Clara Tauson 6-1 7-5. British teenager Emma Raducanu also advanced in style with a 6-2 6-4 victory over Zhang Shuai and Maria Sakkari downed Katerina Siniakova 6-4 6-2. 1720 BENCIC BLASTS PAST TREVISAN

Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, the 11th seed, made short work of Martina Trevisa, beating the Italian 6-3 6-1 in 71 minutes. Both players sent down 16 winners, but Trevisan won 48% of her first-serve points and made more than double the number of unforced errors Bencic did.

1615 PLAY UNDERWAY IN NEW YORK Play got underway at Flushing Meadows after a delayed start, with top seed Ash Barty taking on Denmark's Clara Tauson at the Arthur Ashe Stadium.

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(Compiled by Simon Jennings and Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond)