Key events
Originally, I misread the order of play and thought Zverev v Fearnley was today, not tonight. It could be a helluva match, that one – will Zverev ever recover from his major-final collapses and pummellings? He looked broken at the end of this year’s Aussie Open and, though that was, of course, in the moment, my sense is he no longer believes he can win one.
On the main Sky channel, we’ve got Boyer v Rublev – the no 15 seed leads 32 with a break – and on my phone, I’m going to start with Musetti v Goffin, Musettti up 2-0, but we’ll see how it goes.
Preamble
Yes yes y’all and welcome to the US Open 2025 – day five!
We begin today with a variety of intriguing matchups. Lorenzo Musetti meets David Goffin, Stefanos Tsitsipas takes on the dangerous Daniel Altmaier and Beatriz Haddad Maia, whose powerful aggression has long been a favourite of this blog, faces Viktorija Golubic. Oh yeah, and Iga Swiatek, tennis’ form and most frighteningly focused player, addresses Suzan Lamens.
Franky, that’s enough for an entire session, but there’s so, so much more. Andrey Rublev is also involved in the first tranche of matches, after which Jannik Sinner, the defending champ, gets going again, Alexei Popyrin a properly dangerous opponent.
My potential match of the day, though, comes on Armstrong, where Hailey Baptiste will have a go at Naomi Osaka,and I’m also excited to see Sorana Cirsrtea try to upset another favourite, Karolina Muchova. Add to that Amanda Anisimova v Maya Joint, plus appearances from Daria Kasatkina, Alex De Minaur, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Maria Sakkari, Denis Shapovalov and Karen Khachanov, and we’re all set for another burst of joy and love exactly when we need it most.
