2020 US Open – Men's singles

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Dominic Thiem defeated Alexander Zverev in the final, 2–6, 4–6, 6–4, 6–3, 7–6(8–6) to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2020 US Open. It was his first and only major title, following three previous runner-up finishes. Thiem was the first man to come back from two sets down in a US Open final in the Open Era, the first to do so overall since 1949, and the first to do so in any major final since Gastón Gaudio at the 2004 French Open. Both players served for the championship in the final set (Zverev at 5–3 and Thiem at 6–5), but both were broken at 30. This was the first time that the US Open title was decided by a fifth set tie-break, 50 years after the rule was introduced in 1970. Thiem's victory made him the first man born in the 1990s to win a singles major, the first Austrian to win a singles major since Thomas Muster at the 1995 French Open, and the first new male major singles champion since Marin Čilić won the 2014 US Open. The gap between Čilić and Thiem's titles was the longest...

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