Tennis Majors

Aryna Sabalenka’s 99 weeks as world No. 1 can end on Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday afternoon, and the player most likely to take the ranking from her will not walk on court until the following day. Elena Rybakina finishes this US Open as world No. 1 unless Zheng Qinwen beats her in Wednesday’s quarterfinal and Sabalenka, Jessica Pegula or Coco Gauff then wins the title.

Alexander Zverev needed a tie-break to finish it and never looked like being taken further, the German top seed beating Italian No. 21 seed Luciano Darderi 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (3) to close out a US Open fourth round that ran from Monday night into Tuesday and completed a last eight containing the first Belgian man to reach this stage in New York. It was Zverev’s 50th win of a seaso...

Arthur Gea was one point from becoming the first lucky loser in history to reach a Grand Slam men’s quarterfinal, and he spent the next two sets losing it, the Frenchman beaten by Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp 3-6, 6-7 (0), 7-6 (7), 7-6 (3), 6-4 in the fourth round of the US Open on Monday evening in New York, after 5 hours and 13 minutes. Van de Zandschulp next plays the ...

On this day, September 8, 2002, former No 1 Pete Sampras, who had had a terrible year, surprised everyone by triumphing at Flushing Meadows, a feat that many thought he could never achieve again. In the final, Pistol Pete, who was by then only the 17th-ranked player in the world, beat his long-time rival Andre Agassi (6-3, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4), twelve years after he previously defe...

The US Open was the one major that had never given Elena Rybakina a quarterfinal, and she took it apart in straight sets to get one, the Kazakh No. 2 seed beating Japan’s No. 13 seed Naomi Osaka 6-1, 6-4 on Monday evening in New York. One more win and she will be world No. 1. It was as one-sided as a 6-1, 6-4 scoreline can be. Rybakina hit 29 winners to nine, held all nine of...