A competition stadium that Corentin Moutet will discover for the first time. The Frenchman, lucky loser, is probably living the greatest adventure of his career in New York. Already knocker of Stan Wawrinka and Botic van de Zandschulp, the left-hander offered himself Pedro Cachin after a big fight of 3h16 (6/3, 4/6, 6/2, 7/5). Capable of the best but also sometimes of the worst, he experienced a few moments of absence in this meeting but his ability to multiply the magic blows in the 4th round allowed him to recover from a handicap of 0-4 to avoid a fifth round. always tricky. Not necessarily satisfied with his performance but very happy to discover the second week of a Grand Slam and to be at the same time the first lucky loser to achieve such a performance here, he will have to pull out all the stops against Casper Ruud. The Roland-Garros finalist got out of his peak of tie-breaks against Tommy Paul (7/6 (3), 6/7 (5), 7/6 (2), 5/7, 6/0 in 4h23).
Also note the qualifications Pablo Carreño Busta, scorer in four sets of Alex de Minaur (6/1, 6/1, 3/6, 7/6 (5) and Karen Khachanov, who “took advantage” of the retirement of Jack Draper in the third set (6/3, 4/6, 6/5 ab.).
