Why this matters: Rybakina beat Sabalenka 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 for her first US Open title and her third major, ending Sabalenka’s 20-match winning streak here and her bid for a third straight New York title. Watch the third set, where Rybakina answered the set she had just lost and closed out the defending champion. Source:
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Why this matters: Rybakina lost the first set to Gauff, then won 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 to reach her first US Open final, a day after clinching her first WTA No. 1 ranking (official on Monday). Watch the second set, where she cut down her errors and turned the match around. All four top seeds made
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Why this matters: Sabalenka beat Pegula 7-5, 6-2 and is one win from a third straight US Open title, which would make her the first player to win three in a row here since Serena Williams (2012–14). Their 2024 final and 2025 semifinal were tight most of the way — watch how 29 winners to
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Why this matters: The ten best points of the opening week in one reel — a fast way to catch up on a tournament that produced a first-round exit for Djokovic and an unusually strong run from the seeds. Source: US Open Tennis Championships (official) More from the 2026 US Open: See all of GTN’s
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Why this matters: Tiafoe lost the first two sets and won the next three, closing it out in a fifth-set tiebreak against a fellow American. Watch how his court position and shot selection change once he stops defending — the clearest lesson in this tournament on resetting after a bad start. Source: US Open Tennis
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Why this matters: Shelton took down the defending champion in five sets, in a match that finished at 3:33 a.m. — the latest finish in US Open history. The result put an American into the semifinals and guaranteed a first-time champion from this half of the draw. Source: US Open Tennis Championships (official) More from
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Watch a 140-mph serve and your eye goes straight to the arm. You’re looking at the wrong place. The real engine is two feet lower. Let me ruin a magic trick for you — the good way, the way that makes the next match you watch ten times more fun. When you see a pro
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Alcaraz, Federer, Serena, Sampras, Sabalenka — every serve you’ve ever admired passes through the exact same checkpoint. Once you can see it, you’ll never watch a serve the same way again. Here’s a little game I want you to play next time you’re watching tennis. The next time a great server steps up to the
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The serve flashes by in about a second. Most of the real action happens in moments the broadcast never names. Here’s where to point your eyes. Here’s the thing about watching tennis on TV: the commentators will tell you the serve was 128 mph, they’ll tell you it caught the line, and then they’ll move
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Most tennis stats describe what happened — not why a player won. These five metrics are the ones that actually correlate with match outcomes across ATP and WTA data, and knowing them will change how you watch the game.
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