• British No 1 again displays best form since winning title

• 6-2, 6-1 victory follows devastating win over Shibahara

On her return to Flushing Meadows this year, Emma Raducanu felt the full force of the tension and nerves that accompanied her determination to finally change the narrative surrounding her career and thrive in New York again.

However, Raducanu has also never been more prepared for such challenges. She continues to show off the fruits of her recent labour by putting together another devastating performance, demolishing the qualifier Janice Tjen 6-2, 6-1 to return to the third round of the US Open.

Labour’s support for ‘dynamic alignment’ with Europe and a youth mobility scheme has gone unchallenged by Gove – and Farage

Asked in 2020 whether the UK would accept aligning with EU business regulations, Michael Gove, who was then the Cabinet Office minister, said bluntly: “We will not trade away our sovereignty.”

Sitting next to his Labour successor Nick Thomas-Symonds on Wednesday, the now editor of the Spectator was more circumspect.

ByteDance plans to offer employees $200.41 per share, up 5.5% from $189.9 six months ago, as revenue grows

ByteDance, the owner of short-video app TikTok, is set to launch a new employee share buyback that will value the Chinese technology giant at more than $330bn, driven by continued revenue growth, said three people with knowledge of the matter.

The company plans to offer current employees $200.41 per share in the repurchase program, the people said, up 5.5% from $189.90 each it offered them about six months ago which valued ByteDance at roughly $315bn.

British Transport Police said alleged victim ‘did not wish to provide a statement to the investigation’

The far-right activist Tommy Robinson is to face no further action after he was arrested over an alleged assault at St Pancras station in London.

British Transport Police (BTP) presented a file of evidence to prosecutors over the incident on 28 July, with footage of Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, pacing around near a man lying face down on the floor, posted on social media.