US Open 2026 Day Seven Recap

Day 7 delivered a few big-ish casualties, with Taylor Fritz and Flavio Cobolli each heading out earlier than the second week.

Fritz’s exit was comfortably the extra painful of the 2. He led Francisco Cerundolo by two units and a break, had three break factors at 3-4 within the fifth, and nonetheless someway misplaced.

Given how dominant he regarded in opposition to Bellucci, that’s a reasonably brutal approach for my American title choose to vanish, and it’s laborious to image many higher probabilities cropping up with no Sinner and Djokovic lengthy gone.

Cobolli additionally went out after Alexander Blockx took over utterly from halfway by way of the second set, whereas Learner Tien continued his glorious run by edging Jakub Mensik in 5.

As soon as the solar had set, Alexander Zverev lastly managed to play a Grand Slam match with out turning it right into a five-hour expedition, beating Alejandro Tabilo in straight units and conserving some much-needed power.

Right here’s a take a look at all of the Day 7 outcomes and the matches that stood out.

Day Seven US Open 2026 Spherical of 32 Outcomes

Winner
Loser
Rating

Alexander Zverev [1]
Alejandro Tabilo [25]
6-2, 7-6(2), 6-2

Luciano Darderi [21]
Dane Sweeny
6-4, 6-3, 6-3

Arthur Gea [LL]
Michael Zheng
7-6(7), 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2

Botic van de Zandschulp
Zizou Bergs [31]
3-6, 7-6(3), 4-6, 7-6(6), 6-3

Karen Khachanov
Benjamin Bonzi
6-3, 6-2, 6-4

Learner Tien [14]
Jakub Mensik [17]
6-3, 1-6, 6-7(2), 6-3, 6-4

Francisco Cerundolo [24]
Taylor Fritz [9]
3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4

Alexander Blockx [28]
Flavio Cobolli [5]
6-7(4), 6-3, 6-0, 6-3

Key Match Recap

Francisco Cerundolo def. Taylor Fritz 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4

The largest results of Day 7 was Francisco Cerundolo coming from two units right down to knock Taylor Fritz out of the match.

Fritz had received himself into pole place after the primary couple of units after which went up a break within the third, so I believed this was heading in the direction of one other straight-sets win after he dropped simply two video games in opposition to Bellucci.

As an alternative, Cerundolo broke straight again and regularly began discovering the extent that had been lacking from his first two and a half units. His forehand grew to become rather more harmful, and he minimize the errors whereas Fritz’s ball-striking and serve each began to deteriorate.

The massive second got here at 3-4 within the fifth. Fritz had 0-40 and three probabilities to place himself in place to serve for the match, however Cerundolo saved all three, held, after which instantly broke.

A fairly horrible loss for Fritz given the place he was in, notably after trying so good two days earlier. I don’t assume he performed that nicely throughout the first two units, however he struck the ball properly sufficient from the baseline and fought his approach by way of some tight video games, whereas Cerundolo didn’t serve nicely.

From the third onward, it flipped 180 as Cerundolo began serving higher and Fritz’s baseline sport deteriorated. Nevertheless it’s a poor loss in opposition to somebody who’s had a quite inauspicious season and there goes my American choose for the title.

Alexander Blockx def. Flavio Cobolli 6-7(4), 6-3, 6-0, 6-3

Flavio Cobolli lastly received the opening set of a match at this US Open however then determined his job was accomplished.

After edging a good first-set tiebreak, he was utterly blown away by Alexander Blockx, who produced some respectable stuff from there.

From 2-3 within the second set, Blockx received 11 consecutive video games, taking the second 6-3, bagelling Cobolli within the third and breaking instantly at first of the fourth.

Cobolli did briefly threaten one other comeback, however Blockx stayed composed and closed it out with 4 first serves in a love maintain.

The Belgian completed with 17 aces and received 86% of his first-serve factors.

Learner Tien def. Jakub Mensik 6-3, 1-6, 6-7(2), 6-3, 6-4

Learner Tien got here by way of a superb late-night battle with Jakub Mensik to achieve the fourth spherical for the primary time in New York.

This one had 5 setter written throughout it, because it’s an attention-grabbing matchup between two utterly completely different gamers.

Mensik has the larger serve and extra apparent energy, whereas Tien is rock regular, extends the rallies and forces the Czech to maintain hitting one other ball.

After splitting the primary two units, Mensik took a reasonably snug third-set tiebreak and regarded to have the match below management.

However the Czech nonetheless has some lulls/walkabouts in his sport as Tien refused to go away, recovering from an early break within the fourth, fed off the Armstrong crowd and ultimately compelled a decider earlier than edging the fifth 6-4.

Alexander Zverev def. Alejandro Tabilo 6-2, 7-6(2), 6-2

It took many of the first week however Alexander Zverev found that US Open matches don’t truly must final 5 units.

After spending virtually 10 hours on court docket in his first two rounds, the highest seed dispatched Alejandro Tabilo in simply two hours and 26 minutes.

There was one barely messy spell within the second. Zverev led 4-2, grew to become passive and ultimately needed to save two set factors at 4-5 earlier than getting by way of the tiebreak 7-2. Occurs a bit too usually and is without doubt one of the causes he’s needed to play these two five-setters.

Exterior of that, this was comfortably his finest efficiency of the match. He hit 44 winners, managed the baseline significantly better and eventually managed to preserve some power.

Luciano Darderi is subsequent, and that’s an attention-grabbing one given the Italian beat him in Rome earlier this yr after saving 4 match factors.

Highlights

US Open 2026 Day 8 Spherical of 16 Matches