Overview

• Struff outlasted Rune 7-6 (7-5), 2-6, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 to advance at Flushing Meadows.
• The five-setter on Court 17 lasted about 3 hours 25 minutes and ended on Struff’s 28th ace.
• Next up, the German faces No. 17 seed Frances Tiafoe in the third round in New York.
• The victory was Struff’s first over a top-20 opponent this year and made him the oldest German to beat a top-20 player at a Grand Slam.
• He reached the main draw through qualifying after his ranking fell to No. 144, surviving a rain-delayed scare en route.