US Open: Vesely wins five-set epic against Francisco Cerundolo to advance to third round

Jiri Vesely reached the third round of the US Open by defeating Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo, the No 20 seed, 7-6 (5), 6-2, 3-6, 2-6, 7-6 (6) at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

Despite fighting back from two sets down to two sets all, 20th seed Cerundolo was unable to complete the comeback and ultimately went down in a mammoth encounter that passed the four hour mark.

Vesely, ranked No 437, will play Croat qualifier Borna Gojo next.

Ahead of his victory, Jiri Vesely won against French qualifier Enzo Couacaud (5-7, 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4).

Cerundolo, ranked No 20, won against American qualifier Zachary Svajda (5-7, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3) in the previous round of the Flushing Meadows tournament.

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

• Daniil Medvedev vs. Christopher O’Connell
• Carlos Alcaraz vs. Lloyd Harris
• Felipe Meligeni Alves vs. Sebastian Baez
• Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Daniel Evans
• Gael Monfils vs. Andrey Rublev
• Nicolas Jarry vs. Alex Michelsen
• Arthur Fils vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Yibing Wu vs. Alex De Minaur
• Yu Hsiou Hsu vs. Cameron Norrie
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Stan Wawrinka
• Matteo Berrettini vs. Arthur Rinderknech
• Andy Murray vs. Grigor Dimitrov
• Jack Draper vs. Hubert Hurkacz
• Michael Mmoh vs. John Isner
• Lorenzo Sonego vs. Jannik Sinner
• Alexander Zverev vs. Daniel Altmaier
• Juan Pablo Varillas vs. Taylor Fritz
• Sebastian Ofner vs. Frances Tiafoe
• Casper Ruud vs. Zhizhen Zhang
• Juan Manuel Cerundolo vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
• Titouan Droguet vs. Jakub Mensik
• Tommy Paul vs. Roman Safiullin: wednesday
• Rinky Hijikata vs. Marton Fucsovics: wednesday
• Ben Shelton beat Dominic Thiem: 7-6 (1), 1-0 ret.
• Adrian Mannarino (22) beat Fabian Marozsan: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1
• Novak Djokovic (2) beat Bernabe Zapata Miralles: 6-4, 6-1, 6-1
• Benjamin Bonzi (WC) beat Christopher Eubanks (28): 7-6 (6), 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (7)
• Aslan Karatsev beat Roberto Carballes Baena: 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Laslo Djere (32) beat Hugo Gaston (Q): 6-1, 6-2, 6-3
• Borna Gojo beat Mackenzie McDonald: 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
• Dominic Stricker (Q) beat Stefanos Tsitsipas (7): 7-5, 6-7 (2), 6-7 (5), 7-6 (6), 6-3