US Open, Qualification WTA: Tyra Caterina Grant vs Himeno Sakatsume

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Market context

Tyra Caterina Grant and Himeno Sakatsume were drawn to meet in the US Open women’s qualifying second round, a match scheduled for 26 August 2026 at Court 8, and the draw page lists Grant at No. 94 and Sakatsume at No. 96 in qualifying order.[1][3] The live listings also show the match was ultimately played, with Sakatsume advancing after a three-set result, so a settled contract would not rely on a fallback tie state unless the market’s own deadline was missed.[4][8]

For probability reading, the useful analogue is a tightly priced qualifier where both players sit close in ranking and have already cleared one round, which usually keeps any pre-match edge narrow rather than binary.[2][10] Grant arrived off a straight-sets win over Savannah Broadus, while Sakatsume had beaten Jazmin Ortenzi, and early market pricing elsewhere had already reflected that proximity with Sakatsume only a modest favourite in some books before play.[4][9][11] That kind of profile is best handled programmatically by treating draw position, round progression, and pre-match price drift as the main signals, rather than assuming a strong favourite from the title alone.[7][10]

The main catalysts are operational: official order-of-play changes, any medical timeout or retirement news, and whether the match is completed before the settlement window closes on 2 September 2026.[1][3] For copy-trading or conditional-order logic, the key dependency is simple: if a winner is recorded, settle to that name; if the match is not played or is left without a winner by the contract’s deadline, it resolves 50-50 under the market rules, so stale listings should be checked against the live score feed before execution.[2][8][13]

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Methodology

We track US Open, Qualification WTA: Tyra Caterina Grant vs Himeno Sakatsume across the five venues with material prediction-market liquidity. The probability shown is the live Polymarket mid; the comparison rows summarise how each venue treats the underlying contract — fees, KYC thresholds, settlement currency, deposit options. The highlighted row marks the cheapest route into Polymarket's order book.

Resolution & payout

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On Kalshi (CFTC-regulated) resolution runs through their in-house clearing engine in USD. Betfair Exchange settles after match end in the account's local currency. Manifold pays no cash — only its in-platform "mana" currency.

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