In the second round of the US Open men's singles, China's Zhang Zhizhen faced the tournament's fifth-seeded Rude, who was also the runner-up at last year's US Open and is now ranked fifth in the world.
In the whole game, Zhang Zhizhen hit 18 ACEs and 55 winning points. After a hard fight of 3 hours and 20 minutes, he won 3-2 against the fifth seed Ruud, and the score in the fifth set was 6-4, 7-5, 6-2, 0-6, 6-2.
Zhang Zhizhen and Ruud played the first two sets of the match to make it 1-1.
In the crucial third set, Zhang Zhizhen came up and broke his opponent's serve, and then won his own serve. When the game reached the seventh inning, Zhang Zhizhen broke Ruud's serve again to lead 5-2. He scored four consecutive goals 6-2 on his own serve to win the third set.
In the fourth set, Zhang Zhizhen voluntarily gave up after losing two games first, and lost the fourth set 0-6.
In the fifth set, Zhang Zhizhen once again played his bottom line return advantage, breaking his opponent's serve in the first game and breaking his opponent's serve in the fifth game to lead 4-1. Next, both sides hold their own guarantees. The game came to the eighth game, Zhang Zhizhen's serve won the game, one serve scored, 1 ace ball, the two sides were tied 40-30, Zhang Zhizhen served in the outside corner, volleyed diagonal in front of the net, and scored. Zhang Zhizhen won the game to win the fifth set 6-2.
In the whole match, Zhang Zhizhen defeated the fifth seed Ruud 3-2, writing his new history at the US Open, hoping that Zhang Zhizhen, who won the No. 5 pick, can continue to play the advantage of serve and bottom line attack in the next match, avoiding the situation of the fourth set of the match, which makes people feel that this is not the same person's game.