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Alexander Blockx vs Marco Trungelliti — 6-3 6-2 3-6 6-1
 Alexander Blockx✓ | 6 | 6 | 3 | 6 |
 Marco Trungelliti | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
Final · Thursday, September 3, 2026 · Round of 64
Result
Blockx put barely half his first serves in and won 88% of them, which is most of the story. He broke Trungelliti in the sixth game of the first set and never gave it back, then broke twice early in the second for 5-1. The third was the Argentine's: level to 3-3, he punished a rare hesitant service game at 3-4 to break for 5-3 and served it out. Blockx double-broke at the start of the fourth, shortened the rallies deliberately and took it 6-1 in 35 minutes. Trungelliti, 36 and ranked 83rd, had come from two sets to one down to beat Juncheng Shang in nearly three and a half hours to get here; against Blockx he served twelve double faults and made 46 unforced errors. Blockx, 21 and seeded 28th on his US Open main-draw debut, hit seventeen aces and reaches a Grand Slam third round for the first time. He plays Flavio Cobolli next, who beat him in Cincinnati last month.
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At this Stage
The Round of 64 is where a Grand Slam draw stops being a lottery and becomes a tournament. Sixty-four men's matches opened the bracket; thirty-two across Wednesday and Thursday halve what is left, and everyone still here has already won on these courts. Seeds who came through the first round now meet opponents carrying form rather than a ranking.
Alexander Blockx✓Marco TrungellitiRound of 128
Round of 64
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.
Fifteen years between them and two entirely different Mondays. Blockx is 21, the 28th seed, playing his first US Open, and he handled Tomas Barrios Vera 6-3 6-4 6-2 without a scare. Trungelliti is 36, ranked 83rd, and spent three hours twenty-seven minutes losing a set 6-0 and another 6-1 and winning anyway — Juncheng Shang took 141 points to his 130 and converted seven of nineteen break points, and Trungelliti still came through 6-4 in the fifth after another rain delay. It was his first win in New York in five years. The seed is the pick on almost every number, but not on the one that matters most here: Blockx's career hard-court record is 20-23, and this is a surface on which his ranking is ahead of his results. Trungelliti, into the top 100 for the first time at 36 and an ATP finalist for the first time this year, is playing the best tennis of his life. They have never met.
The case for Alexander Blockx
73% to winBlockx is the seed, ranked 49 places higher, and won in straight sets on Monday while his opponent was on court for nearly three and a half hours in five. He is 22-15 on the season and 21 years old on a surface that rewards a first strike. Trungelliti has won two matches at this tournament in his entire career and is fifteen years the older man in a draw that gets physically harder from here.
The case for Marco Trungelliti
27% to winTrungelliti has already survived what a 36-year-old is not supposed to survive: two sets lost by an aggregate 12-1 and a fifth set won after an hour's rain. He is into the top 100 for the first time in his career, reached his first ATP final at Marrakech this year, and his career hard-court record — 48-50 — is better than Blockx's 20-23. The seed is playing his first US Open and has not yet had to solve a problem here.
Both cases written 2026-09-01, 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: Alexander Blockx to advance ✓ RIGHT
“The seed, fifteen years younger and three hours fresher — but his hard-court record is the thinnest thing on this card.”
Locked 2026-09-01 09:45 UTC — rendered verbatim from the pick ledger; never a fresher, hedged version
Tale of the tape
Alexander BlockxMarco TrungellitiPlayer vitals: US Open official player feed (usopen.org) and Tennis Abstract career match logs · as of 2026-09-02.
Career head-to-head: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-09-01.
Storylines
- Trungelliti won 0-6 7-6(5) 1-6 6-3 6-4 over Juncheng Shang despite being outscored 141 points to 130.
- It was his first US Open win since 2021 and only the second of his career, in a third main draw.
- Trungelliti is 36 and reached the world's top 100 for the first time this year, along with his first ATP final at Marrakech.
- Blockx, 21, is playing his first US Open and beat Tomas Barrios Vera 6-3 6-4 6-2.
- Blockx's career hard-court record is 20-23; Trungelliti's is 48-50.
Head to head
They have never met.
Source: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-09-01.
Court & schedule: Court 5, Thursday 3 September. 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 2026-09-02)
Weather: Sunday — the men's final, and the last match of the fortnight — is 78°F with showers and thunderstorms 95% likely, the wettest day of the two weeks and the one day that cannot be pushed back. Ashe closes its roof and plays on. It clears overnight: 20% Sunday night, 20% Monday, then dry and sunny from Tuesday. (National Weather Service New York forecast, as of 2026-09-13)
Venue: USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing Meadows, New York — hard.