Entering Sunday's tiebreaker, Thiem boasted a career percentage of 51 percent of tiebreaks won. In order to play you must be a registered user. Zverev suffered from two double faults and for the winning point, Thiem passed Zverev at the net. In the fifth set tiebreaker, Thiem saved two championship points on second serves. stars the opportunity to play coast-to-coast in a true summer season of tennis, all with an eye towards the years final Grand Slam. With Zverev serving for the match in the fifth set at 5-3, Thiem broke at 40-30 and followed it up with three exceptional points, including back-to-back forehand winners to level the set at five apiece. Comprehensive Tennis news, scores, standings, fantasy games, rumors, and more. Both Thiem and Zverev are known for their aggressive baseline playing, and near the end of the match, the pair continued to battle it out in long, grueling baseline rallies. In front of a noticeably quiet, fan-less crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows, New York, the pair played for four hours with both feeling the effects on their legs toward the end. It is the second consecutive year that the US Open men's singles final has gone the distance, and fourth consecutive Grand Slam men's singles final to have gone five sets. The 19-year-old outlasted a valiant Casper Ruud 6-4 2-6 7-6 (1) 6-3 in a three hours. Thiem battled back from losing the first two sets to win three straight sets, including a fifth set tiebreaker, to win the match. Carlos Alcaraz is the youngest-ever world No.1 after winning his first Grand Slam title at the US Open 2022.

Prior to the US Open win, Thiem had lost his three other Grand Slam finals appearances, with the most recent loss to Novak Djokovic in five-sets at this year's Australian Open. It was his first major title and he only lost one set en route (against Botic van de Zandschulp in the quarterfinals).

Thiem joins Thomas Muster (1995 French Open) as the only Austrian men to win a Grand Slam championship. Daniil Medvedev defeated Novak Djokovic in the final, 64, 64, 64 to win the mens singles tennis title at the 2021 US Open. morydl1MSY- US Open Tennis September 14, 2020

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