US Open: Done – Dennis Novak clears the third major main field for 2018!

Three out of four: After the Australian Open and Wimbledon, Dennis Novak has also successfully qualified for a Grand Slam tournament in New York.

By Jens Huiber from New York

After all, the second set was a little easier for Dennis Novak in his 7-5, 6-4 win over Lorenzo Giustino. In the first round, the Lower Austrian went about his break chances extremely wastefully, but still took the lead 3:1, but in the end had to tremble for a moment.

Novak can play at any time more speed than Giustino, also in the National Tennis Center, where the courts are said to be relatively slow. In relation to Cincinnati, for example, which neither Novak nor Giustino contests, neither of whom were allowed to start in Ohio. As in the match against Alexey Vatutin, Novak showed early on who is the boss on the court. In order to open small doors for his opponents again and again.

Nevertheless: Philipp Oswald, Davis Cup colleague of the winning team in Moscow and probably also in mid-September in Graz, could confidently leave the stands on Court 12 at 4:3 for Novak. Novak did the rest – even if the stop at the first match point still got stuck in the net.

Dennis Novak now has a break until at least Monday, helpful in that a little cough is bothering him, which he can cure until his first-round match. Whether Gerald Melzer, a second Austrian from the qualifying round, made it into the main draw, was not decided until later in the afternoon. Melzer’s last opponent was the young Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime.

Here is the qualification tableau in New York