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Dino Prizmic vs Aleksandr Shevchenko — 2-6 6-3 6-3 5-7 7-5
 Dino Prizmic✓ | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 |
 Aleksandr Shevchenko | 6 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 |
Final · Sunday, August 30, 2026 · Round of 128
Result
Prizmic led 5-2 in the fourth set and then lost seven games in a row. Shevchenko served for the match at 5-4 in the fifth and had two match points on it; Prizmic saved both and took the last three games. Three hours 54 minutes, and the first main-draw win of his US Open career. The box score covers the rest: 41 unforced errors to Shevchenko's 62, winners level at 40 and 39, thirteen breaks of serve between them. Everything after the first set was attrition, and the man who missed less survived it.
Dino PrizmicRows the source hadn’t published are left off rather than guessed.
At this Stage
Round of 128 in the draw's quietest corner — two men outside the seedings playing for a Round of 64 that suddenly matters: Tommy Paul's return from the section's qualifier slots looms as the likely reward. Prizmić's season says he belongs at this level permanently; Shevchenko's says he is fighting to stay. First meetings between a riser and a plateau-er are the round's most honest form line. Sunday through Tuesday.
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.
Prizmić. The 21-year-old Croatian's 25–13 season has hauled him to the edge of the top 100 with the sort of dense, physical baseline game that translates late but permanently — and his junior pedigree (a US Open boys' champion in 2023-adjacent memory; more to the point, a professional's patience already) has begun paying tour-level bills. Shevchenko is four years older, ranked four places higher, and having the worse season at 17–21 with a 54–64 career on hard courts that undersells his flat power on good days. First meeting. The pick rides the trajectory: Prizmić is the one whose ceiling is still moving, and five-set formats flatter the fitter, hungrier man. Four sets, momentum one-directional after the second.
The case for Dino Prizmic
58% to winPrizmić's 25–13 is the record of a player about to stop being a prospect; his rally tolerance is elite for his age, and best-of-five is the format where that trait taxes flat hitters like Shevchenko hardest. Nothing in the opponent's season suggests he can end points fast enough, often enough, for long enough.
The case for Aleksandr Shevchenko
42% to winShevchenko's flat drive off both wings is the biggest weaponry in this match, and his 2024 second round here means the stage is familiar. Against a young grinder the formula is known: serve well, swing first, keep rallies under six shots. On a quick court, the man with the pace controls the terms.
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: Dino Prizmic to advance ✓ RIGHT
“The 25–13 season and the engine — a young grinder's format against a flat hitter having a flat year.”
Locked 2026-08-28 04:05 UTC — rendered verbatim from the pick ledger; never a fresher, hedged version
Tale of the tape
Dino PrizmicAleksandr ShevchenkoPlayer 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
- Prizmić, 21, arrives with a 25–13 season — among the best win totals of any unseeded man his age in the field.
- Shevchenko reached the second round here in 2024; his 2026 season (17–21) has run eight games under water.
- First career meeting — and a fork in the road: the winner gets Tommy Paul or a qualifier in the Round of 64.
Head to head
Never met at tour level — the Croatian's climb and the Kazakhstani's plateau intersect for the first time on a US Open field court.
Source: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-08-27.
Court & schedule: Court 10, 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.