We're only a few hours into the U.S. Open — and already the tournament's top seed is toast.
Opening day of a Grand Slam tennis tournament tends to feel predictable: Top players play unseeded players, beat them off the court, and move on. But Monday's first round match in New York between No. 1 Simona Halep and Kaia Kanepi presented a different storyline. Halep fell in straight sets to the unseeded Estonian — 6-2, 6-4 — marking the first time in modern history that the No. 1 women's seed has lost a first round match at the U.S. Open, reports USA Today. (Historic as Monday's loss may be, it wasn't all that novel for Halep, who also lost in the first round of the U.S. Open last year.)
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