Aug 29, 2025, 02:28 AM ET<\/p>\n
NEW YORK — Tommy Paul<\/a> and Nuno Borges<\/a> played well into Friday morning in another post-midnight marathon classic match at the US Open.<\/p>\n Paul eventually came out on top of the 17th-latest finish in tournament history, joining the history books as the second-latest finish in the second round.<\/p>\n “Definitely was happy that it was with the win and not a loss,” Paul said while getting stretched out afterward. “It was a blast. It was an emotional roller coaster, for sure.”<\/p>\n Paul won the first two sets and had a couple of match point chances to close it out in three. He instead lost the third and fourth sets and was tied in the fifth after going up 3-0.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n The American seeded 14th broke Borges one final time with a back-and-forth final point to finish off a 7-6 (6), 6-3, 5-7, 5-7, 7-5 victory.<\/p>\n “I was all twisted around when I hit the last shot,” Paul said. “I didn’t even know if he made it or not. I threw my hands up like I won the point, but I wasn’t actually sure.”<\/p>\n The match that began as the Thursday nightcap at Arthur Ashe Stadium lasted 4 hours, 25 minutes, ending at 1:46 a.m.<\/p>\n Paul thanked the remaining fans for helping him push through and wished more of them were closer to the court.<\/p>\n “I think that they should open it up so the people at the top can come down,” Paul said. “I don’t know why they don’t do that. But yeah, it’s a late one. Definitely my latest match at the Open.”<\/p>\n Paul set up a match with 23rd-seeded Alexander Bublik<\/a> in the third round.<\/p>\n “It’s fun,” Paul said. “We’ll be ready for the next one. Totally. It’s what we train for.”<\/p>\n Paul against Borges, a 28-year-old from Portugal, was the second late-night epic so far this year. Daniil Medvedev<\/a> famously melted down during his match on the opening day of the US Open, a 6-3, 7-5, 6-7 (5), 0-6, 6-4 loss to Benjamin Bonzi<\/a> that ended early Monday.<\/p>\n In other men’s matches, top-seeded Jannik Sinner<\/a>, No. 3 seed Alexander Zverev<\/a> and No. 8 seed Alex De Minaur<\/a> breezed into the third round with straight-sets victories. Sinner rolled to a 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 win over Alexei Popyrin<\/a>, who beat Novak Djokovic<\/a> at the US Open a year ago. Zverev defeated Jacob Fearnley<\/a> 6-4, 6-4, 6-4, and De Minaur rolled past Shintaro Mochizuki<\/a> 6-2, 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n In the day’s biggest upset, ninth-seeded Karen Khachanov<\/a> seemed on his way to an easy victory before Kamil Majchrzak<\/a> stormed back to win 2-6, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-5, 7-6 (5).<\/p>\n The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 29, 2025, 02:28 AM ET NEW YORK — Tommy Paul and Nuno Borges played well into Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":184548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-184547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115112049635873551","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}