Murray wins on productive US Open day for Britons

Boulter reached the Wimbledon third round earlier this year

Katie Boulter reached the US Open second round for the first time as she began an action-packed day for the British players with an impressive win.

Cameron Norrie, who is Britain's highest-ranked man and seeded 16th, also progressed with a 6-3 6-2 6-2 win against Russia's Alexander Shevchenko.

Boulter and Norrie are among six British players in action on Tuesday.

Jodie Burrage is looking to emulate Boulter by claiming her first US Open main-draw win in the women's draw, while Andy Murray, Dan Evans and Jack Draper play in the men's event.

"I've started everyone off really well and hopefully everyone can go out and do their best today," Boulter said.

Boulter looking to re-establish herself among world's elite

Boulter climbed to a career-high ranking of 60th in the world earlier this month after a strong summer on the British grass where she won her first WTA title in Nottingham and reached the Wimbledon third round.

Those results enabled her to re-establish her place in the top 100, four years after dropping out because of stress fracture to her back.

After earning only her second major win outside of Wimbledon, she said: "I want to consolidate my ranking and really show that week in, week out I can play these girls and get a lot of wins against them.

"That's what's really going to build my confidence. I didn't get the chance to do it before when I was inside 100 and I feel like I finally got my feet settled.

"Now is my time to really push on."

The Briton needed a little bit of time to work out how to cope with 81st-ranked Parry, who is a former junior world number one and initially posed problems with her sliced backhand.

But Boulter remained patient and was quickly able to begin executing her forehand to devastating effect.

A single break was enough in the opening set before the world number 61, who hit 31 winners, raised her level in a one-sided second set.

Boulter will face Wang Yafan next after the Chinese world number 114 stunned French seventh seed Caroline Garcia 6-4 6-1.

Norrie returns to form in confident win

It has been a measure of Norrie's success in recent seasons that four consecutive defeats, starting at Wimbledon and leaving him winless on the North American hard-court swing, provided concern.

Runs like that were rare as he climbed into the world's top 10 and became a Grand Slam semi-finalist at Wimbledon in 2022.

Despite a particularly poor performance in Cincinnati, Norrie remained upbeat and showed why in a confident performance against 83rd-ranked Shevchenko.

The 28-year-old left-hander will play Australia's Thanasi Kokkinakis or Taiwanese qualifier Hsu Yu-hsiou in the last 64.

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