Perfect Tennis

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 …