Reigning males’s champion Jannik Sinner charged into the third spherical of the U.S. Open on Thursday (August 28, 2025) as Coco Gauff and Iga Swiatek battled to maintain their title bids intact.
Sinner swatted Australia’s Alexei Popyrin apart 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 to stretch his Grand Slam profitable streak on exhausting courts to 23 matches.
The Italian high seed has made a convincing begin in his bid to turn out to be the primary man to repeat as US Open champion since Roger Federer received 5 in a row from 2004-2008.
“I’m very pleased that I managed these matches pretty much as good as I may,” stated Sinner, who dropped solely 4 video games in his opening win earlier than blasting previous the Thirty sixth-ranked Popyrin.
“I’m aiming to enhance on the serve however the remainder (of my recreation) I’m fairly comfy with.”
Sinner faces Canadian twenty seventh seed Denis Shapovalov within the third spherical on Saturday.
He has reached the ultimate of all three Grand Slams this season, profitable the Australian Open and Wimbledon both aspect of a defeat to Carlos Alcaraz on the French Open.
Zverev cruises into third spherical
Third seed Alexander Zverev cruised to a 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 win over Britain’s Jacob Fearnley, whereas Lorenzo Musetti eased previous Belgium’s David Goffin.
Three-time Grand Slam runner-up Zverev eased previous world quantity 60 Fearnley 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to e-book a date with Canadian twenty fifth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime or Russia’s Roman Safiullin.
Germany’s Alexander Zverev acknowledges the gang after defeating Nice Britain’s Jacob Fearnley on the U.S. Open tennis championship on August 28, 2025.
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Solely Carlos Alcaraz has greater than Zverev’s 45 match wins on the boys’s circuit this season.
Third seed Zverev has reached at the very least the quarter-finals in every of his final 4 journeys to New York, the place he completed runner-up in 2020.
Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have scooped the final seven Grand Slams collectively however Zverev is hoping to muscle in on their territory and declare an elusive first main.
“I’m right here to spoil the get together. I’m going to strive to do this,” stated Zverev, who misplaced final yr’s French Open ultimate to Alcaraz and got here second to Sinner in Melbourne in January.Russian fifteenth seed Andrey Rublev beat American wild card Tristan Boyer in 4 units. He advances to a last-32 tie with Hong Kong’s Coleman Wong.
Wong, a 21-year-old qualifier, prolonged his New York fairytale with a 7-6 (7/5), 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 win over Australian Adam Walton.
The 173rd-ranked Wong had already made historical past earlier within the week by changing into the primary man from Hong Kong to win a Grand Slam singles match.
“It’s actually one thing that I’ve dreamed of, that I feel each tennis participant goals of — to maintain getting into a Slam,” stated Wong.
Karen Khachanov turned the largest casualty to date within the males’s draw because the Russian ninth seed blew a two-set lead in his loss to Poland’s Kamil Majchrzak.
Tearful Gauff digs deep
Gauff displayed nice resolve to beat one other shaky efficiency that diminished her to tears within the evening session on Arthur Ashe.
Third seed Gauff shrugged off Croatia’s Donna Vekic 7-6 (7/5), 6-2 regardless of being damaged 4 occasions within the opening set as her serving woes resurfaced.
United States’ Coco Gauff seems to cry after profitable the primary set over Croatia’s Donna Vekic through the second spherical of the U.S. Open tennis championships, on August 28, 2025.
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“Truthfully, at present was a troublesome match for me, however I’m simply proud of how I used to be capable of handle it,” stated Gauff, choking again tears. “It’s been a tough couple of weeks.”
“I used to be simply making an attempt to inform myself to breathe, simply put one other ball within the court docket and maintain doing the issues that I do nicely,” she added.
Gauff drew inspiration from the presence of gymnastics icon Simone Biles as she hauled herself out of bother.
“I used to be simply pondering if she will be able to go on a six-inch broad beam and carry out with all of the issues she’s gone by means of, I can come out right here on court docket and hit a ball,” stated Gauff.
The American performs Poland’s Magdalena French in spherical three and will run into Naomi Osaka in a blockbuster last-16 conflict that includes two former US Open champions.
Gymnast Simone Biles (centre), reacts after Coco Gauff talked about her through the second spherical of the U.S. Open tennis championships, on August 28, 2025.
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Osaka impressed in a 6-3, 6-1 win over American Hailey Baptiste.
The Japanese star has not gone past the third spherical of a serious since profitable the final of her 4 Grand Slams on the 2021 Australian Open.
Requested if she feels able to make one other deep run in New York, she remained coy.
“I don’t make it my enterprise to know anymore. I sort of simply go away it up within the air,” stated Osaka.
“For me, I realise that I’ve carried out the whole lot that I may. I’ve educated actually exhausting. I practised actually exhausting. If it occurs, it occurs.”
Osaka will meet Australian fifteenth seed Daria Kasatkina within the final 32.
Swiatek began Thursday’s motion on Arthur Ashe by warding off the Netherlands’ Suzan Lamens 6-1, 4-6, 6-4.
World quantity two Swiatek seemed to be cruising as she led by a set and a break however stumbled earlier than ultimately seeing off the 66th-ranked Lamens.
“It wasn’t the best match. It acquired a bit sophisticated within the second set, however I’m pleased that I may reset and begin enjoying higher within the third set,” stated Swiatek.
Swiatek, the 2022 US Open champion, has received 16 of 17 matches following titles at Wimbledon and Cincinnati. Shes faces Russian twenty ninth seed Anna Kalinskaya for a spot within the final 16.
Czech eleventh seed Karolina Muchova, a semi-finalist the previous two years right here, edged previous Sorana Cirstea in three units.
Printed – August 29, 2025 09:04 am IST
