Overview

• Paul won 7-6 (6), 6-3, 5-7, 5-7, 7-5 in 4 hours, 25 minutes after the Thursday nightcap on Arthur Ashe stretched into Friday morning.
• He led by two sets and held match points to close in three before Borges rallied to force a fifth set.
• After going up 3-0 in the decider and getting pulled back level, Paul broke again to seal it 7-5.
• The finish ranks as the 17th-latest in U.S. Open history and the second-latest for a second-round match.
• Paul thanked the remaining crowd and suggested allowing upper-deck fans to move closer, as the tournament logged a second late-night epic this year following Daniil Medvedev’s earlier loss to Benjamin Bonzi.