HIGHLIGHTS-Tennis-U.S. Open day four

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.

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): 1857 KVITOVA TOO GOOD FOR KRISTYNA PLISKOVA

Petra Kvitova, the 10th seed, powered past fellow Czech Kristyna Pliskova with a 7-6(4) 6-2 victory. Russian Varvara Gracheva stunned 24th seed Paula Badosa 6-4 6-4 while compatriot and French Open runner-up Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 6-2 5-7 6-2.

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1814 SWIATEK SURVIVES FERRO SCARE Seventh seed Iga Swiatek surrendered the opening set and came through a tight second to beat Frenchwoman Fiona Ferro 3-6 7-6(3) 6-0, while 28th seed Anett Kontaveit overcame Swiss Jil Teichmann 6-4 6-1.

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 Trevisan, 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. (Compiled by Simon Jennings, Shrivathsa Sridhar and Anuron Kumar Mitra in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond)