{"id":89938,"date":"2025-08-31T08:11:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=89938"},"modified":"2025-08-31T08:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:11:19","slug":"alexander-bublik-tommy-paul-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/08\/31\/alexander-bublik-tommy-paul-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Alxander Bublik Outlasts Tommy Paul in Epic Five-Setter to Set Up Sinner Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Bublik outlasted home favorite Tommy Paul in a five-set thriller to storm into his first-ever US Open fourth round, edging a pulsating 7\u20136(5) 6\u20137(4) 6\u20133 6\u20137(5) 6\u20131 victory on Arthur Ashe Stadium that ended well past 1 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Kazakhstani\u2019s serve was his greatest weapon, firing 22 aces and winning 83% of first-serve points to keep Paul under constant pressure across nearly four hours.<\/p>\n<p>The match swung on narrow margins through the first four sets, with both men trading tiebreak wins and Paul feeding off crowd energy to level twice. Yet the American could never crack Bublik\u2019s delivery; remarkably, he failed to score a single break of serve all night. Once the fifth set began, Bublik surged ahead, reading Paul\u2019s patterns and punishing short balls to run away with it 6\u20131 in emphatic style.<\/p>\n<p>The win represents <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/03\/03\/alexander-bublik-underrated-maverick\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Bublik<\/a>\u2019s best-ever run in New York and underscores his reputation as one of the game\u2019s most dangerous servers. He has faced just 12 break points across the entire tournament, highlighting the consistency behind his flashy shot-making.<\/p>\n<p>Paul, meanwhile, exits earlier than his fourth-round runs in 2023 and 2024, undone by his inability to seize momentum in the key moments, and he falls short of becoming the American torchbearer, leaving Taylor Fritz as the sole remaining American in the draw.<\/p>\n<p>While gripping, this contest didn\u2019t eclipse the tournament\u2019s all-time longest: the 2024 US Open\u2019s longest men\u2019s match, Daniel Evans vs Karen Khachanov at 5 hours 35 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Bublik now sets up a marquee clash with World No. 1 Jannik Sinner, a duel that will test whether his serve and fearless creativity can withstand the relentless firepower of the sport\u2019s most in-form player.<\/p>\n<p><a  id=\"NHS6OVotRn51JVRLt2rw7Q\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2232953203\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'NHS6OVotRn51JVRLt2rw7Q',sig:'-lZ6T0XoXR9aJorY-FH3-Rfv7d3-QhfwxpGG8IY8xzU=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'2232953203',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Bublik outlasted home favorite Tommy Paul in a five-set thriller to storm into his first-ever US Open fourth round, edging a pulsating 7\u20136(5) 6\u20137(4) 6\u20133 6\u20137(5) 6\u20131 victory on Arthur Ashe Stadium that ended well past 1 a.m. The Kazakhstani\u2019s serve was his greatest weapon, firing 22 aces and winning 83% of first-serve points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4883,"featured_media":61114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[42770,510,5862,1635],"class_list":["post-89938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-atp","category-us-open","tag-2025-us-open","tag-alexander-bublik","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-tommy-paul"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4883"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89938"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89951,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89938\/revisions\/89951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}