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Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs Jacob Fearnley — 6-3 6-3 3-6 6-3
 Tomas Martin Etcheverry✓ | 6 | 6 | 3 | 6 |
 Jacob Fearnley | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 |
Final · Wednesday, September 2, 2026 · Round of 64
Result
Played on a Wednesday shredded by rain, and interrupted by it. Etcheverry, the 27th seed, was solid from the back of the court from the start and took the first two sets 6-3, 6-3 against an opponent carrying the mileage of a five-set first-round win over Martin Landaluce. Fearnley was in the draw as a lucky loser — he had lost his final qualifying round to Jurij Rodionov 6-4 4-6 6-4 and was handed the place within hours when Ugo Humbert withdrew — and he took the third 6-3 and broke early in the fourth. Etcheverry retrieved the break, steadied, and closed out 6-3 after 3hr 18min to avoid a decider. The margin was in the errors: Fearnley served 11 double faults to five and made 57 unforced errors to 41. Etcheverry equals his best US Open showing, set in 2024; his best Slam run remains the 2023 Roland Garros quarter-final.
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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.
Tomas Martin Etcheverry✓Jacob FearnleyRound 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.
Etcheverry, on rest as much as anything. The 27th seed made ten unforced errors in three sets against Vit Kopriva, won 77% of his first-serve points and was off court in 2 hours 2 minutes; Fearnley has now played five matches in six days at this tournament and the last of them ran 4 hours 11 minutes. That match is also the argument on the other side: Fearnley was two breaks down in the fourth set and facing a man serving for the match twice, and he won five games in a row and then the fifth set, having entered the draw as a lucky loser after losing the final round of qualifying. He does not fold, and he converted nine of sixteen break points doing it. But he also served sixteen double faults, and Etcheverry is 6′5″ with a first serve that has been landing. They have never played. On a hard court the Argentine's career record is a modest 51-58 and he has been beaten by lower-ranked players all season — 23-22 for the year — which is why this is not a formality.
The case for Tomas Martin Etcheverry
68% to winTen unforced errors in a straight-sets win is close to a clean sheet at this level, and Etcheverry backed it with ten aces and seven of ten break points converted. He is 6′5″, ranked 69 places above Fearnley, and comes in with two days more rest than an opponent who has been on court over eleven hours since Thursday. Nothing about his opener suggested a player who needs to be dragged into a fifth set to win.
The case for Jacob Fearnley
32% to winFearnley is the reason lucky losers exist. He lost the last round of qualifying, got in when Ugo Humbert withdrew, and then beat Martin Landaluce from a position where the Spaniard twice served for the match — sixteen break points faced across the two of them and nine taken. Etcheverry is 23-22 for the season and 51-58 on hard courts for his career; a seed with that record playing his first opponent who has already had to win from nowhere is exactly how second-round upsets happen.
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: Tomas Martin Etcheverry to advance ✓ RIGHT
“A near-flawless two-hour opener against a lucky loser who has spent eleven hours on court since Thursday.”
Locked 2026-09-01 01:20 UTC — rendered verbatim from the pick ledger; never a fresher, hedged version
Tale of the tape
Tomas Martin EtcheverryJacob FearnleyPlayer 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 2026-08-31.
Storylines
- Fearnley is in the draw as a lucky loser: he lost the final round of qualifying to Jurij Rodionov and got in when Ugo Humbert withdrew.
- His first round against Martin Landaluce lasted 4 hours 11 minutes across two days after rain, and he won five games in a row from 2-5 down in the fourth set.
- Etcheverry made ten unforced errors in three sets beating Vit Kopriva 6-3 6-4 6-0 in 2 hours 2 minutes.
- First meeting; they have never played at tour level.
- Etcheverry is 23-22 for the season and 51-58 on hard courts for his career.
Head to head
They have never met at tour level.
Source: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-08-31.
Court & schedule: Court 12, Wednesday 2 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.