Tiebreak losses see Goransson and Galloway edged out in US Open first round

[p]The US Open has seldom been a happy hunting ground for [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/goransson-andre/bkGRha3F/"]Goransson[/a], who has never been past the second round in New York, while it's back-to-back first round losses for the Swede in this event, having made an early exit alongside [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/verbeek-sem/Usxki0dU/"]Sem Verbeek[/a] 12 months ago.[/p][p]Having an American and former quarter-finalist on home soil in [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/galloway-robert/dEg6XnKS/"]Galloway[/a] wasn't enough to change the 32-year-olds fortunes, though things could easily have been so different, as neither pair forced a loss of serve in normal play throughout the two-set match which lasted two hours and nine minutes.[/p][p]In the first-set tiebreak, Goransson and Galloway were playing catch-up after losing serve on the first point, but despite holding off a couple of set points,[b] they finally fell to a 7-4 tiebreak loss, as [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/rojer-jean-julien/ImVMGqSp/"]Rojer[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/winegar-theodore/StsP5O5d/"]Winegar[/a] took the set, 7-6.[/b][/p][p]In game 10 of the second set, [b]the Swedish-American pair held off five match points[/b] to hold serve and eventually force another tiebreak, but again they found themselves trailing, and [b]after saving another match point, they couldn't save a seventh, as the unseeded Dutchman and American took another 7-4 win[/b] in the tiebreak, and thus another 7-6 set win to take [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/galloway-r-dEg6XnKS/goransson-a-bkGRha3F/?mid=fTexYAc2"]the match[/a].[/p][p]Rojer - the winner of this event nine years ago - and Winegar will play sixth seeds [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/krawietz-kevin/EwLaAdNP/"]Kevin Krawietz[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/puetz-tim/CUhEqGYo/"]Tim Putz[/a], both of Germany, in the second round.[/p][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/tennis/atp-doubles/us-open/"]Follow all the action from the US Open doubles on Flashscore.[/a][/b][/p]