US Open, Qualification WTA: Carson Branstine vs Clervie Ngounoue

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Market context

Carson Branstine and Clervie Ngounoue met in the opening round of US Open women’s qualifying on 24 August, with the match listed on Court 12 and later reported as completed. The draw sheet had both players in the same section of the qualifying bracket, which makes this a straight advance-or-eliminate event for market purposes rather than a multi-stage dependency. [13][15]

The 100% crowd price implies the match outcome is already treated as effectively locked in, which is consistent with later scores showing Branstine beating Ngounoue 6-2, 7-6(3). In a programmatic workflow, that kind of pricing would usually be handled as a settled-state check: confirm whether the match has an official result, then map the winner to the market’s binary resolution, with the 14-day no-decision backstop only relevant if the result never appears or is voided. [12][15]

For comparable cases, the key read-through is that qualifying matches can move quickly from scheduled to finalised, and delayed or missing listings are what matter most for settlement risk. Recent US Open qualifying coverage also shows that these entries were granted special-rankings pathways, including Branstine and Ngounoue, which is useful context for tracking whether either player remains active in the event and whether any schedule adjustments affect the live status feed. [4][13]

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Methodology

We track US Open, Qualification WTA: Carson Branstine vs Clervie Ngounoue 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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