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Rain delays meant some matches were suspended while others were postponed.
TOP-SEEDED ALEXANDER Zverev survived a scare, overcoming Lorenzo Sonego in a wild-five setter at the US Open on Tuesday as Elena Rybakina and Coco Gauff advanced with ease.
Zverev fought off a determined challenge from Italy’s lowly ranked Sonego, winning 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 , 7-5, 6-4. Zverev overcame Sonego in a tense all-court battle spiced by unlikely retrievals, impossibly angled winners and some inexplicable errors, which wrapped up on Arthur Ashe Stadium after four hours and 53 minutes at 1:55am.
“I’m just happy I won, that’s it. Incredible battle,” said Zverev, who was two points from defeat trailing 5-4 in the fourth set. The German held serve and broke Sonego in the next game, then earned the lone break of the fifth set to complete the win. Zverev, who followed his first Grand Slam title at Roland Garros with a Wimbledon final appearance, notched his seventh win in as many matches against Sonego, ranked 89 in the world.
“Credit to him, he played an incredible match,” Zverev said, adding it was just the kind of battle he needed after lackluster performances in two hard court tournaments coming into the Open. Advertisement There was no such drama for world number two Rybakina and former champion Gauff. Rybakina, eyeing a third Grand Slam title and the world number one ranking, beat US teen Thea Frodin 6-3, 6-2.
Gauff showed off her immensely improved serve in a confident 6-3, 6-4 victory over 53rd-ranked Zeynep Sonmez of Turkey. A convincing start from Coco! pic.twitter.com/YhhRpCAf3T — US Open Tennis September 2, 2026 Gauff blazed through the opening set before Sonmez upped her game, recovering an early break in the second and briefly taking the lead before Gauff regrouped. Kazakhstan’s Rybakina showed little sign of the left heel injury that forced her out of her quarter-final in Cincinnati this month.
She saved both break points she faced in a polished performance against the big-hitting if erratic American, who was playing her first Grand Slam main draw match on a wild card. Women’s French Open champion Mirra Andreeva also advanced easily, cruising past Indonesia’s 36th-ranked Janice Tjen 6-2, 6-2. Andreeva, seeded fifth, has had a lacklustre run on North American hard courts since her scintillating run to a first Grand Slam title in Paris.
But she was dialed in as she produced her second win over Tien in less than two weeks. Cobolli comeback Fifth-seeded Flavio Cobolli, runner-up to Zverev at Roland Garros, rallied from two sets down for the first time in his career to beat Argentina’s Francisco Comesana 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. The Italian shook off an erratic start, dropping to his knees and raising his arms in celebration after closing out the four-hour, 13-minute marathon.
In the time it took Cobolli and Comesana to battle it out on the Louis Armstrong stadium, Americans Madison Keys and Taylor Fritz both posted wins on Arthur Ashe Stadium. Keys, a former Australian Open winner who lost in the first round at Flushing Meadows last year, conquered first-match jitters to beat 19-year-old Russian Alina Korneeva 7-5, 6-4. Nerves didn’t seem to be a problem for ninth-seeded Fritz as he sailed past fellow American Darwin Blanch 6-3, 6-2, 6-4.
While play went as scheduled on the covered Ashe and Armstrong stadiums, those on outside courts – including Rybakina – had to wait out some lengthy rain delays. That included a near four-hour delay to the start of play and more delays in the evening. Five late matches were postponed altogether and a handful of others suspended to resume on Wednesday.
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