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Kamil Majchrzakvs
Hamad Medjedovic
Sunday, August 30, 2026 · Round of 128
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My pick: Hamad Medjedovic to advance · locked 2026-08-28 03:40 UTCPrediction
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, quoted to a decimal because false precision is funnier — and tennis has no draw to hide the rounding in.
Tale of the tape
Kamil MajchrzakHamad MedjedovicPlayer vitals: US Open official player feed (usopen.org) and Tennis Abstract career match logs · as of 2026-08-27.
Career head-to-head: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-08-27.
The briefing
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.
Watch: Opening-round coverage starts Sunday at 11 a.m. ET across ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC, with ESPN Deportes in Spanish — and every court streams in the ESPN app, including a whip-around channel for the early rounds. (ESPN press-room release and listings, as of 2026-08-27)
Court & schedule: Not yet assigned — the US Open posts each day's order of play the evening before, so day-one courts land the night of 29 August. This one profiles as a field-court match. (US Open order-of-play release cadence, as of 2026-08-27)
Weather: The opening window looks kind: mostly sunny and 85–86°F Sunday and Monday, with thunderstorm chances only creeping in on Tuesday. Ashe and Armstrong close their roofs if the sky turns; the field courts wait it out. (National Weather Service New York forecast, as of 2026-08-27)
Venue: USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing Meadows, New York — hard.
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.
