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Jaime Faria vs Jenson Brooksby — 6-3 7-6(4) 4-6 1-6 6-2
 Jaime Faria✓ | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
 Jenson Brooksby | 3 | 64 | 6 | 6 | 2 |
Final · Sunday, August 30, 2026 · Round of 128
Result
One hundred and fifty points to 149. Faria won this by a single point across three hours 44 minutes — two sets up, then beaten 4-6 1-6, then 6-2 in the decider. He also served fourteen aces and fourteen double faults, which is one way of saying the margin was never going to be wider than this. Brooksby hit more winners, 46 to 41, and had sixteen break points to Faria's eleven.
Jaime FariaRows the source hadn’t published are left off rather than guessed.
At this Stage
Round of 128 with the draw's most consequential neighbor: the winner of this rematch almost certainly opens the Round of 64 against defending champion Carlos Alcaraz. That turns a scrappy unseeded first-rounder into an audition — Faria's power or Brooksby's puzzles, one of them gets the Ashe assignment every player publicly wants and privately fears. Cincinnati says Faria; best-of-five says watch the first hour. Sunday through Tuesday.
What we know now
Court: Stadium 17
Match length: 3:44
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What I said beforehand
The preview, frozen before the first serve. Clearly dated, never rewritten — that's the deal that makes the pick worth anything.
Faria — the freshest evidence says so twice. The Portuguese 23-year-old beat Brooksby 6-3 6-2 in Cincinnati three weeks ago, squaring a head-to-head Brooksby had led since Roland-Garros last year, and his 27–12 season is the sort of year that turns a No. 70 ranking into a passing phase. Brooksby remains the tour's strangest puzzle — a 2021 fourth round here, hands and angles nobody teaches, and a 12–20 season that keeps hinting the solution has been lost. On a quick court the American's junk-and-redirect game needs more time than Faria's first-strike pace intends to offer. If Brooksby's disruption lands early this becomes a thinking match; more likely, Cincinnati repeats at greater length. Faria in four.
The case for Jaime Faria
56% to winFaria won the last meeting emphatically, three weeks ago, on this exact surface — and his 27–12 season towers over Brooksby's 12–20. At 23 he is the improving party with the cleaner power game, and New York's pace rewards his serve-plus-first-ball pattern more than any stop on the summer swing.
The case for Jenson Brooksby
44% to winBrooksby has been to the second week of this tournament and owns the higher tennis IQ in the match by a distance; his win in the 2025 Roland-Garros meeting showed what happens when he gets a full best-of-five canvas. Cincinnati was best-of-three and over in an hour — the longer format is precisely where his pattern-breaking compounds.
Both cases written 2026-08-28, before the first ball — frozen into the record exactly as written, whatever the result. The percentages are mine — opinions with a percent sign on. They add to 100 because tennis has no draw to hide the rounding in.
My locked pick: Jaime Faria to advance ✓ RIGHT
“Won the rematch's dress rehearsal 6-3 6-2 three weeks ago, with a 27–12 season behind it.”
Locked 2026-08-28 04:35 UTC — rendered verbatim from the pick ledger; never a fresher, hedged version
Tale of the tape
Jaime FariaJenson BrooksbyPlayer vitals: US Open official player feed (usopen.org) and Tennis Abstract career match logs · as of 2026-08-28.
Career head-to-head: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-08-27.
Storylines
- This is an immediate rematch: Faria won 6-3 6-2 in Cincinnati's first round three weeks ago, squaring the head-to-head at 1–1.
- Brooksby's 2021 fourth round here — at 20, with wins over seeded opposition — remains his career peak; his 2026 record is 12–20.
- Faria's 27–12 season is the best of any Portuguese man in the field — he and Nuno Borges give Portugal two live first-rounders.
Head to head
One–one: Brooksby in four sets at Roland-Garros 2025, Faria 6-3 6-2 in Cincinnati this month. Different surfaces, different formats — the rubber match lands on Brooksby's home soil but Faria's preferred pace.
Source: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-08-27.
Court & schedule: Stadium 17, Sunday 30 August. The US Open posts each day's order of play the evening before; this one is on the board. (Official US Open order of play, as of 2026-08-28)
Weather: Sunday — the men's final, and the last match of the fortnight — was forecast at 78°F with showers and thunderstorms 95% likely, the wettest day of the two weeks and the one day that could not be pushed back. The rain came in the morning and stopped before the final, which Ashe played with its roof open. It cleared from there: 15% overnight, 15% Monday, then dry and sunny. (National Weather Service New York forecast, as of 2026-09-13)
Venue: USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing Meadows, New York — hard.