US Open, Qualification ATP: Dalibor Svrcina vs Felipe Meligeni Alves

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Market context

Dalibor Svrcina beat Felipe Meligeni Alves 2-0 in the US Open qualifying first round, so the market should already be resolved unless the exchange is still waiting on official confirmation. The match was listed for 24 August at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre, with Svrcina seeded and ranked materially higher than Meligeni Alves in the qualifying field, which fits the pre-match pricing that had Svrcina favoured.

For a market opened on a tennis qualifier, a 100% crowd-implied YES typically reflects either a completed result or near-certain expectation of one, and here the live scoresheets show the contest finished in straight sets. The key comparable case is not a close win but a completed first-round qualifying match on hard courts: once the scoreboard and draw both show progression, the only real settlement risk is an administrative delay or correction.

For traders watching the on-chain side, the relevant catalyst is no longer the sporting schedule but the exchange’s settlement workflow in USDC and any delay between official tennis confirmation and market closure. If the contract remains open, the main dependency is whether the operator has ingested the result from the US Open draw; if not, resolution should still track the match outcome unless the event was abandoned entirely, which the reported completed score makes unlikely.

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Methodology

This page reads US Open, Qualification ATP: Dalibor Svrcina vs Felipe Meligeni Alves on-chain. Polymarket's quote comes directly from the Polygon order book — the only comparable venue with on-chain settlement. Kalshi (USD, off-chain), Betfair (GBP/EUR, off-chain) and Manifold (play-money) are listed alongside for venue context. Every CTA routes to BTC Prediction, which mirrors the Polymarket order book directly.

Resolution & payout

Settlement is on-chain via UMA Optimistic Oracle. A proposer posts the outcome with a bond, a two-hour dispute window opens, then the smart contract lifts winning conditional tokens to 1 USDC and sends payments to holders' wallets automatically. No withdrawal fees beyond Polygon gas.

Off-chain venues (Kalshi, Betfair, Smarkets) settle in local fiat through bank-side clearing — faster than SWIFT, slower than on-chain. Manifold pays no real cash.

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