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Germany’s Alexander Zverev reacts during his second round match against France’s Quentin Halys on\u00a0September 4, 2026.\u00a0\u2014 Reuters<\/p>\n
NEW YORK: Alexander Zverev survived another major scare at the US Open as the top seed battled past France\u2019s Quentin Halys 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(3), 6-7(3), 6-3 after four hours and 33 minutes on court to secure his place in the third round here at Flushing Meadows on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Zverev was pushed to the limit by Lorenzo Sonego in his opening match, again had to rely on his resilience after Halys repeatedly threatened to derail his campaign.<\/p>\n
Zverev admitted he was far from his best but praised his resilience and determination to fight through difficult moments and reach the third round.<\/p>\n
“The performance was quite shit to be honest, but I won and that’s the most important thing,” Zverev said on court after the match, which finished at 2:15 a.m. local time.<\/p>\n
“That’s what I go to the gym for, that’s what I go to the track for, what I train for, to be able to come out on top in these difficult moments.<\/p>\n
“I hope at some point I’ll start playing better, but for now I’m happy to be in the third round.”<\/p>\n
Zverev made a strong start by taking the opening set, but world number 52 Halys responded aggressively to level the match.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old German then found himself in serious trouble in the third set after surrendering an early break and falling 4-1 behind. However, he fought back to force a tie-break and regain the lead.<\/p>\n
Halys claimed the fourth-set tie-break to force a decider, but Zverev steadied himself and moved 4-2 ahead before closing out the victory.<\/p>\n
The 2020 US Open runner-up will next face 25th seed Alejandro Tabilo as he continues his pursuit of a maiden Grand Slam title in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany’s Alexander Zverev reacts during his second round match against France’s Quentin Halys on\u00a0September 4, 2026.\u00a0\u2014 Reuters NEW…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[243,25253,463,1959],"class_list":["post-65526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alexander-zverev","tag-alexander-zverev","tag-tabilo","tag-us-open","tag-zverev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65526","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=65526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}