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Alexander Blockx vs 
Marco Trungelliti
Round of 64
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My pick: Alexander Blockx to advance · locked 2026-09-01 09:45 UTCPrediction
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.
Tale of the tape
Alexander BlockxMarco TrungellitiPlayer vitals: US Open official player feed (usopen.org) and Tennis Abstract career match logs · as of 2026-09-01.
Career head-to-head: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-09-01.
The briefing
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.
Watch: Second-round coverage runs across ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC, with ESPN Deportes in Spanish — and every court streams in the ESPN app, which is where a match away from the two show courts will live. (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, and this match has not reached the board yet. (Official US Open order-of-play release cadence, as of 2026-09-01)
Weather: Tonight is the last of the wet weather and the worst of it: showers and thunderstorms at 84% before the sky clears to mostly cloudy on a low near 71°F. Wednesday is the break the tournament has been waiting for — near 75°F on an 18% chance of a shower — though storms creep back after dark at 65%. Thursday is the unsettled one, warm at 81°F with showers and thunderstorms likely at 65% and 53% overnight. Friday turns: near 82°F and mostly sunny on 10%, the first clean day of the fortnight, with Saturday better still. Ashe and Armstrong close their roofs and play on; everything else waits. (National Weather Service New York forecast, as of 2026-09-01)
Venue: USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing Meadows, New York — hard.
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.
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