{"id":22438,"date":"2025-08-31T06:41:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/31\/us-open-2025-no-3-seeded-alexander-zverev-is-down-on-the-third-impact\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T06:41:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:41:21","slug":"us-open-2025-no-3-seeded-alexander-zverev-is-down-on-the-third-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/31\/us-open-2025-no-3-seeded-alexander-zverev-is-down-on-the-third-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open 2025: No. 3 Seeded Alexander Zverev is down on the third impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Good night for F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime and a very bad night for Alexander Zverev.<\/p>\n<p>The third seed at the US Open bouncing off the tournament just after 11pm local time, making it 4-6, 7-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the third round of the Flushing Meadows. This was Auger Alicim&#8217;s first career victory over the top five players in the Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He certainly won it, erasing the early deficit with a dominant performance that earned 50 winners against 35 unprotected errors.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked sixth in the world before struggling over the past few years, Auger Ariasime was considered a reward for his hard work.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"content-blockquote\">\n<div class=\"blockquote\">\n<p>&#8220;This feels good. This feels good! I&#8217;ve been here since 2018. I&#8217;m still young, but it&#8217;s been a few years. I&#8217;m working my way. It may be the first time you&#8217;ve seen me tonight. This feels really good. I&#8217;m not finished work yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With this loss, Zverev is seeking his first career grand slam title, despite his 24 other tournament titles and fifth spot on ATP&#8217;s all-time career revenue list. He showed proper form in the semi-finals leading to tournaments at the Cincinnati Open and the Canadian Open, but was caught up in the face of a capable opponent who showed a predictable level of small numbers.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Auger Aliasime especially dominated the net, winning against Zverev, who counter-punched 24\/27 points. His reward will be on a date with No. 15 Andrei Lubreviff on Monday, along with his first major quarterfinal chance since 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good night for F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime and a very bad night for Alexander Zverev. The third seed at the US Open bouncing off the tournament just after 11pm local time, making it 4-6, 7-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the third round of the Flushing Meadows. This was Auger Alicim&#8217;s first career victory over the top five players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[289,2064,32,6062,24,290],"class_list":{"0":"post-22438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alexander","9":"tag-impact","10":"tag-open","11":"tag-seeded","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-zverev"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}