2026 US OPEN MEN’S FINAL RECAP: Zverev Wins 2026 US Open, Shelton’s First Major Final & More

**Andy Roddick** (0:00)
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Zverev. So what if I would have told you at the beginning of the year? What if I would have told you Sabalenka doesn't win a major, Świątek doesn't win a major, Coco doesn't win a major. Wow. Sinner and Alcaraz don't play in a major.

**Mike Monaco** (1:50)
Don't play each other.

**Andy Roddick** (1:50)
Don't play each other in a major. Yeah, sorry, don't play against each other in a major.
There's a very real chance that neither one finishes number one in the world.

**Mike Monaco** (2:02)
That's a crazy statement.

**Andy Roddick** (2:03)
And Zverev wins two majors. That's why we play him, guys. That's why sports is the ultimate reality show.

**Mike Monaco** (2:16)
I mean, if you would have said Zverev made, Zverev was going to make four semifinals in two finals. I mean, like, what are you talking about?

**Andy Roddick** (2:22)
He had never made it past the fourth round of Wimbledon. Like this is like, and he said, he came to the ESPN set and he said, he told me off air and then we went on air and he said the same thing. He said, if you would have given me the choice and a piece of paper to sign and you get one forever, he goes, I would have taken that in a heartbeat at any point in the last, however many years. Like no questions asked.
Gets through against Ben Shelton, who had a hell of a tournament. I thought the two speeches after the tennis were just about perfect. I thought they accounted for themselves so well during the post-match speeches. I thought the respect between the two was evident. I also really, really liked, and I think it's the first time I've seen it, I liked Zverev going over and shaking the hands of Ben's team.

**Mike Monaco** (3:15)
I thought that was cool.

**Andy Roddick** (3:16)
I thought that was classy. I thought that was nice. But I think it was just, there's a lot to unpack with this performance of the match and the tournament overall with Zverev, and then we pan out to the kind of career perspective.
He was two points away from losing first round.

**Mike Monaco** (3:41)
Yeah.

**Andy Roddick** (3:41)
Against Sonigo, and then barely won his second round against Alis.
Survive, advance, that matters.
Every time you sneak through a match and you play like shit, which by his own admission he played like shit, for his standard, not like everyone's standard, but for his standard, you give yourself another chance to play well. Like that is a lesson for him from this openness amongst many other things. And for someone who we don't like, Sabalenka comes on the desk last week, right? At Red Zone and starts predicting Serves from, and hits most of them like four for four crazy. For someone who we don't give credit for being like a strategist or like this, he's always thinking or the IQ or like all that. It's not like a, that's not a set in stone narrative for, for Zverev.