US Open’s first week has delivered drama, with Day 7 bringing epic comebacks and battlesLast updated: September 06, 2026 | 14:463 MIN READAlexander Zverev, of Germany, serves to Alejandro Tabilo, of Chile, during the third round of the U.S. Open tennis championships.APThe US Open has provided so many stories in the first week and the opening Saturday was no different. From a Chinese comeback of epic proportions, a Filipina leaving it all on the court to a German learning what best-of-five sets actually means, here are the top storylines from Day 7.Zheng does the impossibleQinwen Zheng is an Olympic Gold medalist and an Australian Open finalist from just two years ago, and yet, when it came to granting her a wildcard, the US Open looked the other way. So the former world No 4, who was coming off a lengthy recovery from elbow surgery last year, had to grind her way through the qualifiers, because her ranking has dropped outside 120.Yet on Saturday, she showed what she was made of, not only saving a match point at 5-0 down in the decider against 2025 Australian Open champion and local hope Madison Keys, but also winning seven straight games to complete one of the most remarkable turnarounds ever seen.The 23-year-old, who felt she "forgot how to compete" during her enforced absence, said she can now feel her competitive fire burning. "I have a lot of emotions when I'm playing the qualie matches," she said. "I was even crying after I won the third match reaching to the main draw, and you know, main draw is just the beginning."For today, after coming back from 0-5, the first thing in that moment I thought, 'Please, I don't want to be beaten 6-0.'"Jovic loses sanity