The oldest such victory dates back to 2009, when Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro defeated Switzerland’s Roger Federer in the US Open final. Del Potro lost the first set with a score of 3:6, but in the final five-set match he managed to win with a score of 3:6, 7:6 (7:5), 4:6, 7:6. (7:4), 6:2.
Then there was the victory of Swiss Stan Wawrinka over Serbian Novak Djokovic in the 2016 final. Djokovic won the first set with a score of 7:6 (7:1), but then lost three sets in a row – 4 :6, 5:7, 3:6. It was Djokovic’s only loss at the US Open in matches where he won the first set.
The last such victory came in 2020, when Austrian Dominic Thiem defeated German Alexander Zverev in five sets. Thiem lost the first two sets, but then won the other three, including the decisive tiebreaker: 2:6, 4:6, 6:4, 6:3, 7:6 (8:6).
At the moment, the final match of the US Open 2023 is underway, where Serbian Novak Djokovic and Russian Daniil Medvedev are fighting for victory. The first set of the match ended in favor of the Serbian tennis player.
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