Carballes Baena vs Rune (5)
Carballes Baena is a gritty and capable opponent and Rune is injured and peeved. Who with? The US Open schedulers. The Dane is not happy about being sent to rot out on Court 5. Poor guy.
It doesn’t help that there’s only 2 matches on AA for the day session. Or that Tiafoe, Fritz, Djokovic, Tsitsipas and Ruud are all playing.
A volatile and injured Rune versus a seasoned vet whose probably more at home on the less showy courts anyway – popcorn, please.
Tsitsipas (7) vs Raonic
Tsitsipas is always ripe for an upset early on in a slam and his record at the USO is not stellar.
Raonic is on the verge of retirement and seems like he’s from an altogether different age than the social media obsessed Greek.
Raonic has had some nice results coming in and would love a memorable send off in the North American slam.
Tsitsipas is playing without his father stressing out on the sidelines.
Some good storylines here.
Wolf Vs Zhang
There’s something intriguing me about this match. These are two very strong unseeded players duking it out.
Wolf loves playing in front of a home crowd and the support out on court 13 is going to be wild.
Zhang is a very good player with so much potential. He’s going to be the first breakout Chinese male tennis player at some point or other.
Expect some great rallies and plenty of fist pumping.
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