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Kamil Majchrzak vs Hamad Medjedovic — 6-3 6-3 6-3
 Kamil Majchrzak✓ | 6 | 6 | 6 |
 Hamad Medjedovic | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Final · Sunday, August 30, 2026 · Round of 128
Result
A coin-flip on paper and nothing like one on Court 12. Majchrzak made 15 unforced errors across three sets; Medjedovic made 38, and never converted either of the two break points he saw. The Pole won 84% behind his first serve and 68% behind his second — numbers that turn a 1-hour-41-minute match into a formality — and took every set 6-3. My pick had the other man, narrowly. It was not narrow.
Kamil MajchrzakRows the source hadn’t published are left off rather than guessed.
At this Stage
Round of 128 between two men separated by six ranking places and a generation of trajectory: Majchrzak defending last year's third round, Medjedović still converting raw power into results. Their section rewards the winner with a seeded debutant rather than an established heavyweight — Vacherot's first US Open awaits in the Round of 64 — which makes this one of the quieter paths into the second week. Men's openers run Sunday through Tuesday; first-round losers bank $140,000.
What we know now
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.
Medjedović, narrowly, against the head-to-head. The Serb won their only meeting — Roland-Garros last year, in straights — and at 23 he is the one whose arrow points up: a 16–13 season, the biggest serve-forehand combination in this pairing, and hard courts that reward his first-strike pattern better than the clay he beat Majchrzak on. The Pole is the steadier professional, a US Open third-rounder last year with a decade of tour craft, and if this becomes a five-set test of concentration his odds improve every hour. But power that travels plus youth that recovers is the better bet across four rounds of possibilities. Medjedović in four, with a set somewhere that Majchrzak's return game steals.
The case for Kamil Majchrzak
46% to winMajchrzak made the third round here twelve months ago and is the more complete match-player: better return, better shot selection, better record in matches that go long. Medjedović's power has never yet been organized across five sets against a disciplined opponent — the Pole's whole game is a discipline test.
The case for Hamad Medjedovic
54% to winMedjedović won the only meeting without dropping a set, and his weapons got bigger while Majchrzak's stayed the same size. On a quick court his serve is a two-point head start every game; at 23 against 30, the fifth set — if it comes — belongs to him too.
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: Hamad Medjedovic to advance ✗ WRONG
“Won the only meeting in straights, and the bigger weapons now play on their best surface.”
Locked 2026-08-28 03:40 UTC — rendered verbatim from the pick ledger; never a fresher, hedged version
Tale of the tape
Kamil MajchrzakHamad MedjedovicPlayer 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
- Medjedović won the only prior meeting in straight sets at Roland-Garros 2025 — this is the hard-court rematch.
- Majchrzak's third round here last year is the deeper US Open résumé; he is defending those points in this exact section.
- The winner draws 22nd-seeded US Open debutant Valentin Vacherot or New York's own Aleksandar Kovacevic in the Round of 64.
Head to head
Medjedović leads 1–0: Roland-Garros 2025, 6-3 6-3 7-6(2). Majchrzak's best set was the one that reached a tiebreak — Sunday's surface should make his return game a bigger factor than Paris did.
Source: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-08-27.
Court & schedule: Court 12, 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.