It is transferring weekend on the US Open, with the third spherical persevering with on Saturday. American seeds Taylor Fritz and Learner Tien, plus two-time NCAA Champion Michael Zheng from Columbia, play on Saturday, in search of spots within the fourth spherical. Fritz and Tien play lower-seeded gamers and Zheng performs unseeded Arthur Gea of France.
Fritz beat American Wildcard Darwin Blanch 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 within the first spherical and Italian Mattia Bellucci 6-0, 6-1, 6-1 within the second spherical. The IBM Slamtracker provides ninth-seeded Fritz a 54 p.c likelihood to defeat Twenty fourth-seeded Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina. Cerundolo and Fritz are the primary match at Arthur Ashe Stadium at 11:30 a.m. ET.
Cerundolo received his first-round match 6-4, 6-3, 7-5 over Austrian Filip Misolic and German Jan-Lennard Struff, 5-7, 7-5, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3. Cernundolo and Fritz have cut up their two conferences, with each on clay. Cernundolo received in 4 units within the 2023 French Open. Fritz received in three units on the 2024 ATP Masters 1000 in Madrid.
Fourteenth-seeded Tien performs Seventeenth-seeded Czech Jakub Mensik within the second prime-time match at Louis Armstrong Stadium. Tien beat Nuno Borges of Portugal 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 within the first spherical and Gael Monfils in his remaining Grand Slam match 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 within the second spherical.
