{"id":65522,"date":"2026-09-04T15:19:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/65522\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:19:34","slug":"us-open-photos-khachanov-overwhelms-third-seed-auger-aliassime-after-dramatic-turnaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/65522\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open Photos: Khachanov overwhelms third seed Auger-Aliassime after dramatic turnaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Khachanov stunned third seed Felix Auger-Aliassime after losing the opening-set tiebreak, dominating the next three sets with powerful serving and relentless pressure to reach round three.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgwidth\" title=\"Karen Khachanov\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/03karen-khachanov.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Khachanov\" style=\"max-width:100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>IMAGE: Russia&#8217;s Karen Khachanov celebrates winning his US Open second round match against Canada&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliassime in New York on Thursday. Photograph: Eduardo Munoz\/Reuters<\/p>\n<p>Key Points<\/p>\n<p>World No. 50 Karen Khachanov stunned third seed Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 to reach the US Open third round.<br \/>\nKhachanov broke seven times and saved seven of nine break points to claim only his second Grand Slam win over a top-10 opponent.<br \/>\nAfter losing a tight opening-set tiebreak, Khachanov raced ahead early in the second and never surrendered control.<br \/>\nAuger-Aliassime struggled badly after the first set, while Khachanov surged to a 4-0 lead in the fourth before sealing a comprehensive victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rbig\">Russia&#8217;s Karen Khachanov stunned Canadian third seed Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 on Thursday to reach the third round of the US Open.<\/p>\n<p>World No. 50 Khachanov, who lost the opening match in his three US Open tune-up events, was far from spectacular but did enough on a day when 2025 semifinalist Auger-Aliassime struggled mightily.<\/p>\n<p>Khachanov, who made a run to the US Open semifinals in 2022, broke Auger-Aliassime&#8217;s serve seven times on the Louis Armstrong Stadium court and saved seven of the nine break points he faced en route to securing only his second top-10 win at a Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p>Khachanov\u00a0Capitalises on Auger-Aliassime&#8217;s Errors<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgwidth\" title=\"Karen Khachanov\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/03karen-khachanov-a.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Khachanov\" style=\"max-width:100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>IMAGE: Karen Khachanov will take on\u00a0either Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi or Peruvian Ignacio Buse next. Photograph: Eduardo Munoz\/Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"rbig\">Auger-Aliassime looked ready to whip through the first set after consolidating a break for a 3-0 lead but was suddenly undone by a string of errors, allowing Khachanov to pull ahead before the Canadian broke for a second time to get to 4-4.<\/p>\n<p>But Khachanov showed he was ready for a fight and twice held at love while serving to stay in the set before falling short in the tiebreaker, which ended when he sent a backhand long after chasing down an Auger-Aliassime volley.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rediff.com\/sports\/report\/us-open-photos-osaka-battles-past-siniakova-to-reach-third-round\/20260904.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open PIX: Error-Prone Osaka Regroups to Outfight Siniakova<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Takes Firm Control<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgwidth\" title=\"Felix Auger Aliassime\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/03felix-auger-aliassime.jpg\" alt=\"Felix Auger Aliassime\" style=\"max-width:100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>IMAGE: Felix Auger-Aliassime returns against Karen Khachanov. Photograph: Eduardo Munoz\/Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"rbig\">In the second set it was Khachanov&#8217;s turn to jump ahead 3-0 but he never looked back, ultimately closing it out on his serve after coming back from 15-40 down.<\/p>\n<p>Khachanov cruised through the third set, breaking at love to reach 4-1 en route to wrapping up the frame on his serve and leaving Auger-Aliassime with a long road back on a day when little was going right for him.<\/p>\n<p>A Blistering Start to the Fourth Set<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgwidth\" title=\"Khachanov-Auger-Aliassime\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/03khachanov-auger-aliassime.jpg\" alt=\"Khachanov-Auger-Aliassime\" style=\"max-width:100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>IMAGE: Karen Khachanov and Felix Auger-Aliassime shake hands after the match. Photograph: Geoff Burke\/Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"rbig\">The Russian, displaying full confidence in his swings, wasted little time in the fourth set, opening up a 4-0 lead that appeared to drain the energy and strength from Auger-Aliassime, who looked a shell of his normal self.<\/p>\n<p>Khachanov went on to close out the encounter with a four-point hold, the final blow coming with a massive serve that Auger-Aliassime failed to return.<\/p>\n<p>Up next for Khachanov, who has only reached two quarter-finals this year, will be either Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi or Peruvian 32nd seed Ignacio Buse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karen Khachanov stunned third seed Felix Auger-Aliassime after losing the opening-set tiebreak, dominating the next three sets with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4139,753,425,244,366,1549,16533,84,519,25422],"class_list":["post-65522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-felix-auger-aliassime","tag-auger-aliassime","tag-benjamin-bonzi","tag-canada","tag-felix-auger-aliassime","tag-grand-slam","tag-ignacio-buse","tag-khachanov","tag-new-york","tag-russia","tag-us-open-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}