On the second day of the U.S. Open, Bryan Cevallos and Dev Ramautar sat in the stands with a smattering of fans at Court 13, watching Kimberly Birrell play Petra Marčinko.
Birrell entered the Open ranked 71; Marčinko at 77. The two friends were fixated on the court, cheering for each point Birrell won. Ramautar had bet $20 and Cevallos had bet $28 on the Australian to win the match.
“I’m going to be honest, I’ve never heard of the other girl in my life,” Ramautar said.
The night before, Ramautar and Cevallos had each lost more than $200 on Novak Djokovic’s first first-round Grand Slam loss in 78 matches.
“Yesterday, because of Djokovic, everything went down the drain,” Ramautar said. “But today is a fresh start.”
