NEW YORK:
Alexander Zverev cruised into the third spherical of the US Open on Thursday with a straight-sets win over Britain’s Jacob Fearnley.
Three-time Grand Slam runner-up Zverev eased previous world quantity 60 Fearnley 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to ebook a date with Canadian twenty fifth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime or Russia’s Roman Safiullin.
Solely Carlos Alcaraz has greater than Zverev’s 45 match wins on the boys’s circuit this season.
Third seed Zverev has reached at the very least the quarter-finals in every of his final 4 journeys to New York, the place he completed runner-up in 2020.
Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have scooped the final seven Grand Slams collectively however Zverev is hoping to muscle in on their territory and declare an elusive first main.
“I am right here to spoil the occasion. I will strive to try this,” mentioned Zverev, who misplaced final yr’s French Open last to Alcaraz and got here second to Sinner in Melbourne in January.
