Frances Tiafoe was the last man standing, but his four-set loss to Alexander Zverev ended the U.S. men's run in the third round.
Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe — both 25, the highest-ranked Americans at Nos. 8 and 12, the leaders of the fresh American wave of which few Americans seem aware and the last two standing here — had moments that could allow for hope without delusion regarding an event that long has flummoxed their countrymen.
Tiafoe is also a top player, or just about getting there, so a first trip to the third round here had to count as progress, especially given how the Marylander managed to get such an early draw opposite Alexander Zverev, who reached the 2021 and 2022 semifinals here but left the latter in a wheelchair after a gruesome ankle injury from which he is still recovering. The male Americans’ presence here technically ended Sunday because Zverev’s taut 3-6, 7-6 , 6-1, 7-6 win ended at 12:19 a.m.
The 16 who competed here had dwindled to three by Saturday morning. Then they ran into South Americans, whom history has identified as maestros at this place. Fritz, also a Californian, played again before a rowdy crowd at Court Suzanne Lenglen, just as he had done Thursday when he beat France’s Arthur Rinderknech and wound up using his index finger to instruct the crowd to shush, which it refrained from doing during his on-court interview. His match Saturday against Cerundolo, a power-wielding Argentine whose ranking has soared from 127th to 23rd across the past 17 months, came down to narrow margins.
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