In the 2015 US Open tennis championships currently being played in New York, Luxembourg's gilles Muller fell at the first hurdle to Belgium's Ruben Bemelmans, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4, 6-4.

Top seed Novak Djokovic (Serbia), 2nd seed Roger Federer (Switzerland), 3rd seed Andy Murray (Great Britain), 5th seed Stan Wawrinka (Switzerland), 6th seed Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic), 7th seed David Ferrer (Spain), 8th seed Rafael Nadal (Spain), 9th seed Marin Cilic (Croatia) are all through safely to the second round, but 4th seed Kei Nishikori (Japan) was knocked out by France's Benoit Pare.