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Alexander Zverev capped off an excellent Grand Slam season by beating Ben Shelton in four sets to win the 2026 US Open and claim his second major title in the space of three months. It wasn’t the most spectacular final, but it was a very Zverev performance. He served extremely well, absorbed Shelton’s pace, dominated …
The finals are set at Flushing Meadows, and Sunday’s championship match will pit the top seed against the American number one. Alexander Zverev continued what has been an exceptional 2026 campaign by edging Karen Khachanov in a straight-sets contest that was considerably closer than the scoreline suggests. The German held his nerve in two tense …
Day 11 was far more straightforward than the two quarter-finals we saw 24 hours earlier, with Alexander Zverev and Karen Khachanov both booking their places in the last four without too much trouble. Zverev continued his much cleaner second week by seeing off Botic van de Zandschulp in straight sets. There were still a couple …
Day 10 delivered two five-set quarter-finals and, somewhat unexpectedly, a guaranteed American finalist at this year’s US Open. Frances Tiafoe was a game away from going out in straight sets against Alex Michelsen before somehow turning the match around, eventually surviving four hours and 38 minutes despite Michelsen serving for the match in the third …
Day 9 completed the fourth round, with Alexander Zverev looking increasingly comfortable while everyone around him in the draw seemed determined to make life as difficult as possible. Zverev followed up his straight-sets win over Tabilo with another routine victory against Luciano Darderi and is now into the quarter-finals quite comfortably after those early five-hour …
Day 8 saw the first four quarter-final places decided, and the American contingent continues to do well. The biggest result came from Frances Tiafoe, who finally solved the Daniil Medvedev problem with an excellent straight-sets win on his favourite Louis Armstrong Stadium. Carlos Alcaraz was even more convincing against Tommy Paul. This had the potential …
Day 7 delivered a couple of big-ish casualties, with Taylor Fritz and Flavio Cobolli both heading out before the second week. Fritz’s exit was comfortably the more painful of the two. He led Francisco Cerundolo by two sets and a break, had three break points at 3-4 in the fifth, and still somehow lost. Given …
Day 6 was the first day of third-round action, and the draw is starting to take a bit more shape. Carlos Alcaraz continued to look better with every match, seeing off Yibing Wu in straight sets and again showing no obvious problems with the wrist. Tommy Paul is next, which should tell us a bit …
Day 5 produced a few more casualties in the men’s draw, although Alexander Zverev avoided becoming one, coming through another endurance event. The top seed needed another five sets and more than four and a half hours to get past Quentin Halys, meaning he has now spent over nine hours on court through two rounds. …
Day 4 finally saw the US Open schedule get back on track, with the remaining first-round matches completed alongside a full slate of second-round action. Carlos Alcaraz had a minor wobble, dropping the opening set to Jaime Faria, but his response was pretty emphatic as he won eight straight games and eventually came through in …
Day 3 at the US Open was one of those rain-impacted Slam days where the schedule struggled to catch up with itself. Alexander Zverev came within a couple of points of going out in the first round before surviving Lorenzo Sonego in a near five-hour battle, while Flavio Cobolli also had to come back from …
The second day of the 2026 US Open was a bit more conventional than the first, but there was still plenty going on. Carlos Alcaraz made his return to singles after four months out with a wrist injury. He looked far better than I expected, easing past Roman Safiullin in straight sets without any obvious …
The 2026 US Open got underway on Sunday, and we didn’t have to wait long for the first big upset as Novak Djokovic somehow managed to lose to Mariano Navone in five sets. It was a strange match. Djokovic looked physically shot for large parts of it, yet still found himself two sets to one …
