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Lloyd Harris vs 
Stefanos Tsitsipas
Round of 64
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My pick: Stefanos Tsitsipas to advance · locked 2026-08-31 20:50 UTCPrediction
Tsitsipas, on the back of the best match he has played at this tournament in years — and it is closer than the ranking gap suggests. He had lost all five previous meetings with Arthur Fils without taking a set, was a set and a break down, and then took the last two sets for the loss of four games: 51 winners, five breaks from twelve, 25 of 32 at the net. Harris was every bit as convincing in his own way, coming through qualifying and then beating Jack Kennedy 6-4 6-2 6-2 in 1 hour 41 minutes with sixteen aces to four and six breaks from nine chances. He is the only man in this match who has been to a US Open quarter-final — 2021, the run that took him to No. 31 — and at No. 139 he is a qualifier the seeds would rather not have drawn. The ratings put it around 65–35 to Tsitsipas. Two 6′4″ right-handers who have never met.
The case for Lloyd Harris
35% to winHarris has the more efficient week so far: through qualifying, then 1 hour 41 minutes and sixteen aces against four in a straight-sets win, against Tsitsipas's 2 hours 54. He reached the quarter-finals here in 2021, which is deeper than Tsitsipas has ever gone at this tournament — the Greek's best is a third round. A 103–72 career hard-court record at a ranking of 139 is a player between levels rather than below them.
The case for Stefanos Tsitsipas
65% to winTsitsipas has just beaten a top-20 player at the US Open for the first time, having been 0-5 against him and never having won a set. He hit 51 winners, came forward 32 times and won 25 of those points, and closed with an ace — a version of him that has been missing since he began working with Patrick Mouratoglou again in June. His 252–139 on hard courts more than doubles Harris's volume, and a qualifier in a fourth match of the fortnight is where fatigue starts to show.
Both cases written 2026-08-31, 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
Lloyd HarrisStefanos TsitsipasPlayer vitals: US Open official player feed (usopen.org) and Tennis Abstract career match logs · as of 2026-08-31.
Career head-to-head: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-08-31.
The briefing
Storylines
- Tsitsipas ended an 0-5 record against Arthur Fils, having never taken a set off him, winning 4-6 7-6(3) 6-1 6-4.
- It was his first win over a top-20 player at the US Open; he is ranked 53rd.
- Harris qualified and then beat Jack Kennedy 6-4 6-2 6-2 in 1 hour 41 minutes with 16 aces to four.
- Harris reached the US Open quarter-finals in 2021 — deeper than Tsitsipas has ever gone here.
- First meeting: two 6′4″ right-handers who have never played.
Head to head
They have never met at tour level.
Source: Tennis Abstract career match logs (tour-level) · as of 2026-08-31.
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 2026-08-31)
Weather: Rain is the story of the week's opening, and it is forecast to get worse before it clears. Showers and thunderstorms are likely overnight — 72% under a low near 72°F — and Tuesday is the worst day on the board: near 81°F with storms likely through the day, 67%, and again after dark at 64%. Wednesday is the break in it, near 76°F on a 26% chance of showers, with a slight chance of storms returning overnight; Thursday is warm and unsettled again, near 84°F on 53%. Friday is the first clean day of the fortnight — near 82°F and mostly sunny after an early 15%. Ashe and Armstrong close their roofs and play on; everything else waits. (National Weather Service New York forecast, as of 2026-08-31)
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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