NEW YORK (AP) Ukraine's Sergei Bubka, son of the record-breaking pole vaulter of the same name, won his Grand Slam tennis debut Tuesday, beating Austria's Andreas Haider-Maurer 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 at the U.S. Open.
The 24-year-old Bubka hit 25 aces and lost serve only once. He is ranked 207th and needed to win three matches in qualifying to reach his first main draw at a major tournament.
Bubka will face No. 11-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France in the second round.
Bubka's father won a gold medal in the pole vault at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and still owns the outdoor and indoor world records for the event that he set in the 1990s. He was re-elected last week as a vice president of track and field's world governing body, the IAAF.