Alex de Minaur looks to have been given a kind draw in his first grand slam as a married man, but Australia's perennial hope will face a precociously formidable obstacle if he wants to make it to the quarter-finals for the third-straight year.
The world No.6 will face a qualifier in the opening round at Flushing Meadows and though, naturally, that's no guarantee of an easy passage, it bodes promisingly for a man getting back into the swing of big-time tennis after his marriage seven weeks ago.
Sixth seed de Minaur has had three tournaments since tying the knot with British star Katie Boulter last month, and it wasn't exactly an on-court honeymoon for him in any of them before being well beaten by Arthur Fils in the Cincinnati Open last 16.
