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Third round concludes on Saturday in New York
US OPEN DAY SIX HIGHLIGHTS
• Three former US Open champions are in third round action on Saturday with five-time titleholder Roger Federer, two-time winner Rafael Nadal and 2009 champ Juan Martin del Potro leading the way Also on the schedule are No. 6 seed Dominic Thiem, No. 9 seed David Goffin and No. 11 seed Roberto Bautista Agut.
• Nadal brings a 3-0 head-to-head record against lucky loser Leonardo Mayer of Argentina in the last match of the day session on Arthur Ashe Stadium. Nadal leads the ATP World Tour with 51 wins on the season and he’s trying to reach the 4R at the US Open for the 9th time. He is 8-2 in 3R matches. Mayer, who took the place of Milos Raonic in the main draw, is the first lucky loser to reach the 3R in Flushing Meadows since Flavio Cipolla in 2008. Mayer, who won the Hamburg title on July 30 as a lucky loser, is 1-24 lifetime against Top 10 opponents (0-13 on hard courts and 0-8 in Grand Slam play).
• In the night session, Federer takes a 12-0 record against No. 31 seed Feliciano Lopez. Federer has survived two five-set matches to advance to the 3R in Flushing Meadows for the 17th time. He is 15-1 in 3R matches with his only loss coming in his 2000 debut (l. to Ferrero). Federer is 32-1 in night matches at the US Open, the best record since 1980. Lopez, who will turn 36 on Sept. 20, is playing in his 16th straight US Open and 63rd Grand Slam tournament in a row. Federer is the all-time leader in men’s tennis with 65 consecutive Slam tournaments played, which ended at Roland Garros last year. Lopez was a quarter-finalist here in 2015.
• On Louis Armstrong Stadium, No. 30 seed Adrian Mannarino plays Thiem, who has won all five previous meetings against the Frenchman. Mannarino is 3-22 lifetime against Top 10 opponents (0-9 in Grand Slam play) and he is trying to reach the 4R here for the first time. He advanced to the 4R at Wimbledon twice (2013, 2017). Thiem, who reached the semi-finals for the second year in a row at Roland Garros in June, is aiming to reach the 4R here for the 3rd time in 4 years. In the next match, Goffin and last year’s US Open semi-finalist No. 18 seed Gael Monfils square off for the 3rd time (tied 1-1). They split both of last year’s hard court meetings.
• On Grandstand, unseeded Viktor Troicki brings a 2-1 head-to-head record against Alexandr Dolgopolov, who last reached the 4R at the US Open in 2011. Troicki is trying to reach the 4R for the first time. In the next match on, Bautista Agut and del Potro meet for the third time (tied 1-1). Bautista Agut, who won the Winston-Salem title, is trying to reach his 10th Grand Slam 4R, his best result. The Argentine is 20-5 this season against opponents ranked outside the Top 6 (0-6 vs. Top 6).
• On Court 5, Damir Dzumhur plays NextGenATP Russian teenager Andrey Rublev, who is coming off his first career Top 10 win over Dimitrov. Both players are trying to reach their first 4R in a Grand Slam event. On Court 17, No. 33 seed Philipp Kohlschreiber looks for his second win in as many meetings against John Millman.

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(6) Dominic Thiem vs. (30) Adrian Mannarino
Thiem sports a perfect 5-0 record against Mannarino, including four hard-court wins over the past two years. He’s won the past seven sets they’ve played but comes into New York without a hard-court semifinal run in 2017. Mannarino, meanwhile, has been solid since Wimbledon, with quarterfinal appearances in Los Cabos and Montreal and a round-of-16 showing in Cincinnati, where he pushed Thiem to two tiebreak sets in defeat
Thiem has won six of the seven sets he’s played so far, and a second-round victory over American Taylor Fritz gave him a great test in the first week that should serve him well moving forward. There’s no reason to think Mannarino can win three sets against Thiem, so the Austrian advances in four.
(1) Rafael Nadal vs. Leonardo Mayer
World No. 1 Nadal was unhappy with the amount of errors he made against Taro Daniel Thursday evening, despite a four-set win which saw him lose just seven games after dropping the first set. The Spaniard is moving well and always has the option of cranking up the energy when he needs it the most.
For Mayer, he’s already played six matches over the past nine days when you take into account three qualifying matches last week in addition to a men’s doubles match on Friday. Even if Mayer was perfectly fresh, he’d need to play the match of his life to upset the title favorite. He’s lost all seven sets against Nadal in his career, a streak that runs to 10 in the final day match inside Arthur Ashe Stadium.

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(4) Elina Svitolina vs. Shelby Rogers
Svitolina has typically saved her best performances for clay, reaching the quarterfinals of the French Open twice on either side of a run to the fourth round at Roland Garros in 2016. New York has rarely been kind to her, but she’s playing arguably the best tennis of her career this season and she’s primed for a long stay in the Big Apple this time around.
Rogers is coming off a pair of three-set battles, the latter of which against No. 25 seed Daria Gavrilova went a US Open record three hours, 31 minutes. She has a solid game, but nothing that should trouble someone who both moves smoothly and strikes the ball well from the baseline. Svitolina’s game can occasionally run cold in patches, and that alone could see the American win a set, but Svitolina ultimately wins in three.
(15) Madison Keys vs. (17) Elena Vesnina
Following Roger Federer in the night session is no enviable task, but that’s what Keys and Vesnina will be asked to do to close out Saturday in New York.
On paper, this is one of the most evenly matched third-round contests with just two seeds and two spots in the rankings separating the combatants. Keys won the only two previous matches, including 6-4, 6-0 when they met in Montreal last July, but Vesnina has looked impressive in wins over Anna Blinkova and Kirsten Flipkens. Vesnina has only been past the quarterfinals of one major in 11 years and is unlikely to have her US Open breakthrough here against the American. Make it three fourth-round appearances in a row for Keys, who powers through in straight sets.