Ben Shelton knocked out the defending champion at 3:33 in the morning, beat Frances Tiafoe on Friday night, and reached his first Grand Slam final. He walks onto Arthur Ashe on Sunday getting plus money. The US Open final odds have Alexander Zverev at -132 and Shelton at +109 at DraftKings, with Kalshi trading the … Read more
Mariano Navone beat Novak Djokovic 7-6(5), 5-7, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 on Sunday night at Arthur Ashe Stadium. The Navone Djokovic upset ran four hours and 36 minutes, which the Associated Press called the longest opening match of any major in Djokovic’s career. Djokovic had been 19-0 in US Open first rounds. He led two sets … Read more
The 2026 US Open singles draws were made privately at Flushing Meadows on Thursday afternoon. Nobody struck a ball. By evening the US Open draw odds had Carlos Alcaraz at 26 percent on Kalshi, down from 35 percent before the names came out of the bowl. Arthur Fils had doubled, 4 to 8. A quarter … Read more
Taylor Fritz lost a quarterfinal on Friday afternoon in Ohio, beaten 7-6(9), 4-6, 6-3 by Brandon Nakashima, the 27th seed. On the same day his price to win the US Open more than tripled. Both of those things happened, and the second one had nothing to do with him. What happened instead was the Sinner … Read more
The Tirante Djokovic odds had Novak Djokovic somewhere between -360 and -450 when the two walked on court in Cincinnati on Saturday, depending on which book you were reading. Those prices convert to somewhere between 78 and 82 percent. Two public estimates landed in the same neighborhood: the simulation site Dimers had Djokovic at 81 … Read more
Jannik Sinner withdrew from the Cincinnati Open on Sunday with a sore right knee. Five days earlier, Carlos Alcaraz pulled out of the same tournament, still recovering from the wrist problem that’s kept him off tour since April. Both US Open favorites will turn up in New York on August 30 with no hard-court matches … Read more