{"id":29349,"date":"2025-08-29T02:53:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/paul-wins-in-an-epic-5-set-match-at-2-am-at-the-us-open\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T02:53:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:53:42","slug":"paul-wins-in-an-epic-5-set-match-at-2-am-at-the-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/paul-wins-in-an-epic-5-set-match-at-2-am-at-the-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul wins in an epic 5-set match at 2 AM at the US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tommy Paul Prevails in Marathon Night Match at the US Open<\/h2>\n\nIn a match that extended into the early hours of Friday, Tommy Paul achieved an epic victory over Nuno Borges at the US Open. The match, marked by intensity and emotion, became one of the latest in the tournament&#8217;s history.\n\nPaul, after a titanic effort, prevailed in a duel that culminated with a score of 7-6 (6), 6-3, 5-7, 5-7, 7-5. The American tennis player, after securing the victory, expressed his joy for the win and described the match as a true emotional roller coaster.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I definitely felt happy that it was with the victory and not with a defeat. It was an explosion. It was an emotional rollercoaster, for sure.<\/p><cite>Tommy Paul<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe match, which lasted for more than four and a half hours, kept the fans on the edge of their seats. Paul, after losing the third and fourth sets after having dominated the first two, finally managed to break Borges in the final point of the fifth set, thus securing his place in the next round.\n\nPaul himself, when describing the end point, revealed that he even doubted he had won, due to the intensity of the moment.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It was all twisted when I hit the last shot. I didn&#8217;t even know if I had made it or not. I raised my hands as if I had won the point, but I wasn&#8217;t really sure.<\/p><cite>Tommy Paul<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe match, which began as the main event of Thursday night at Arthur Ashe Stadium, concluded at 1:46 a.m., becoming the latest match for Paul in the tournament.\n\nIn the third round, Paul will face Alexander Bublik, seeded number 23.\n\nIn other notable results of the day, Jannik Sinner, Alexander Zverev, and Alex De Minaur advanced with straight-set victories. Meanwhile, Karen Khachanov, seeded number nine, suffered a surprising defeat to Kamil Majchrzak.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Paul Prevails in Marathon Night Match at the US Open In a match that extended into the early hours of Friday, Tommy Paul achieved an epic victory over Nuno Borges at the US Open. The match, marked by intensity and emotion, became one of the latest in the tournament&#8217;s history. Paul, after a titanic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[5429,167,3299,3162],"class_list":{"0":"post-29349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-nuno-borges","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-tommy-paul","11":"tag-us-open"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}