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Jaume Munar vs Terence Atmane — 6-7(5) 3-6 6-1 7-6(4) 7-5
 Jaume Munar✓ | 65 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 7 |
 Terence Atmane | 7 | 6 | 1 | 64 | 5 |
Final · Sunday, August 30, 2026 · Round of 128
Result
Atmane led by two sets, then developed hand cramps and at one stage served left-handed — and Munar still needed four hours 54 minutes, the longest match of the opening day, to turn it round. The Frenchman hit 71 winners to Munar's 58 and lost anyway, because he also hit 72 unforced errors to Munar's 31 and served ten double faults. Munar raced through the third once the cramps arrived, edged the fourth-set tiebreak, and broke through late in a fifth that Atmane, who has come back from cramp before, kept close to the end. Total points: 180 to 162.
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At this Stage
Round of 128 between last year's surprise second-weeker and this year's most volatile debutant. Munar is quietly defending the biggest points haul of his career; Atmane is playing with the house's money at a tournament he has never entered. The winner draws Shimabukuro or 26th-seeded Rinderknech in the Round of 64 — a section that stays honest for another round. Play runs Sunday through Tuesday under a friendly forecast.
What we know now
Court: Court 13
Match length: 4:54
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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.
Munar, in a genuine toss-up the New York résumé settles. The Spaniard made the fourth round here last year — comfortably his best Slam — while Atmane, for all his lefty firepower, has never played a US Open main draw. The seasons argue the other way: Munar is 11–15, Atmane 17–21 with the better recent hard-court sample and a hElo within twenty points of the Spaniard's. What tips a coin-flip is composure in the fourth hour: Munar's game is built on it; Atmane's is built on streaks, and streaks are what best-of-five interrupts. If the Frenchman serves one of his hot days this is anyone's match; across the fuller distribution, Munar's floor wins.
The case for Jaume Munar
54% to winMunar's fourth round here twelve months ago is the controlling evidence — he has beaten quality opposition in these exact conditions, and his rally tolerance is the classic antidote to a streak hitter. A quiet 2026 means low expectations, and Munar has always been most dangerous when nobody is watching.
The case for Terence Atmane
46% to winAtmane's left-handed power is the biggest single weapon in this match, and his 47–44 career hard-court record edges Munar's 68–90 in efficiency terms. The Spaniard's season is 11–15 with most of the wins on clay; a debutant with nothing to lose and a serve that can dominate is precisely how first-round seeds-in-spirit get got.
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: Jaume Munar to advance ✓ RIGHT
“The fourth round here last year and the higher floor — a streak hitter's hot day is the only version of this he loses.”
Locked 2026-08-28 03:15 UTC — rendered verbatim from the pick ledger; never a fresher, hedged version
Tale of the tape
Jaume MunarTerence AtmanePlayer 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
- Munar's fourth round here in 2025 is the best Slam result of his career — he opens the defense of those points against a debutant.
- Atmane has never played a US Open main draw; his 2026 includes more tour-level hard-court matches than any previous season of his career.
- First meeting, and a stylistic classic: the tour's steadiest rally-builder against one of its streakiest shotmakers.
Head to head
Never met at tour level. Munar's grinding and Atmane's gambling have no shared history to consult — expect the first set to be mutual reconnaissance.
Source: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-08-27.
Court & schedule: Court 13, 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.