Alexander Zverev beat Ben Shelton 6-3, 7-6(2), 5-7, 6-2 on Sunday at Flushing Meadows to win the first US Open of his career, in 3 hours 33 minutes. Three months after Roland Garros, it is his second Grand Slam title.
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Alexander Zverev beat Ben Shelton 6-3, 7-6(2), 5-7, 6-2 on Sunday at Flushing Meadows to win the first US Open of his career, in 3 hours 33 minutes. Three months after Roland Garros, it is his second Grand Slam title.
Elena Rybakina beat Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 on Saturday night at Flushing Meadows to win the first US Open of her career. It is her third Grand Slam title, and the second time this season she has taken one off the Belarusian.
Aryna Sabalenka beats Jessica Pegula 7-5, 6-2 and Elena Rybakina comes back to beat Coco Gauff 3-6, 6-4, 6-4: Saturday's women's final pits the top two seeds against each other, a first at the US Open since 2013. In the men's draw, Alexander Zverev and Ben Shelton play for the title on Sunday.
Ben Shelton knocks defending champion Carlos Alcaraz out of the US Open 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-3, 1-6, 7-6(10-7), in a 4hr 28min match that ended at 3.33 a.m. — the latest finish in the tournament's history. He meets Frances Tiafoe in an all-American semi-final. In the women's draw, Aryna Sabalenka and Jessica Pegula meet again on Thursday.
Arthur Gea led by two sets to love, served for the match and held a match point. He is out of the US Open all the same, beaten in 5hr 13min by the Netherlands' Botic van de Zandschulp. No French player is left in New York.
Three days were enough to empty the French draw at Flushing Meadows. Gael Monfils played the last Grand Slam match of his career there, and Quentin Halys, Arthur Rinderknech, Benjamin Bonzi and Leolia Jeanjean are all out. One French player is left in the tournament, and it is the one who had already packed his bags: Arthur Gea plays his round-of-16 match on Monday.
At Flushing Meadows on Tuesday and Wednesday, the rain ended up mattering more than the draw: three days of delays, and a first round completed forty-eight hours apart. The French leave these two days divided — two first wins in New York, four exits, and a single survivor in the third round.
Two days, two heavy falls. After Novak Djokovic on Sunday, Arthur Fils goes out at the first hurdle, beaten by a Stefanos Tsitsipas who had never got the better of him. Carlos Alcaraz, meanwhile, picked his season back up, and three French players reach the second round.
The opening day of the main draw served up the biggest shock Flushing Meadows had to offer: Novak Djokovic is out at the first hurdle. Among the French, Arthur Rinderknech and Luca Van Assche go through, rain pushed five matches into the next day, and neither Carlos Alcaraz nor Arthur Fils plays before Monday.
The draw for the season's last Grand Slam was made on Thursday at Flushing Meadows. It is defined by one major absentee, world No. 1 Jannik Sinner, and by a brutal opening match for the leading Frenchman, Arthur Fils. The tournament starts on Sunday 30 August.