US Open: Hijikata edges past Zhang to book maiden last 16 spot, meets Tiafoe next

Australian wildcard Rinky Hijikata’s breakthrough Grand Slam run continued as he beat Chinese Zhizhen Zhang 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 to reach the last 16 of the US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

Hijikata, ranked No 110, will face American Frances Tiafoe, the No 10 seed, next.

In the previous rounds of the Flushing Meadows tournament, the 22-year-old Australian edged out Russian Pavel Kotov (7-5, 5-7, 6-3, 7-5) and won against Hungarian Marton Fucsovics (6-1, 6-2, 6-1).

Zhang, ranked No 67, defeated American J.J. Wolf (7-5, 7-5, 6-7 (5), 4-6, 6-3) and Norwegian Casper Ruud, the No 5 seed (6-4, 5-7, 6-2, 0-6, 6-2) earlier in the tournament.

New York (Grand Slam), other third-round results (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 44.700.000, most recent results first):

• Daniil Medvedev vs. Sebastian Baez
• Alexander Zverev vs. Grigor Dimitrov
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Alex De Minaur
• Stan Wawrinka vs. Jannik Sinner
• Arthur Rinderknech vs. Andrey Rublev
• Matteo Arnaldi vs. Cameron Norrie
• Carlos Alcaraz vs. Daniel Evans
• Michael Mmoh vs. Jack Draper
• Laslo Djere vs. Novak Djokovic
• Borna Gojo vs. Jiri Vesely
• Jakub Mensik vs. Taylor Fritz: friday
• Dominic Stricker vs. Benjamin Bonzi: friday
• Frances Tiafoe beat Adrian Mannarino (22): 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 7-6 (6)
• Ben Shelton beat Aslan Karatsev: 6-4, 3-6, 6-2, 6-0
• Tommy Paul (14) beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (21): 6-1, 6-0, 3-6, 6-3