He was up 4-2 in the first set with a chance to serve for a three-game lead, but he got broken and never recovered.
This happens year after year, at Grand Slam after Grand Slam, until years become decades and the drought — now a 21-year stretch with an absence of United States men’s tennis champions in the biggest events of the calendar year — gets another year tacked on. It always starts with one American losing in the men’s draw. It has always ended with the rest of them falling.
Korda never truly recovered after dropping the final four games of the opening set, and he was the first seeded American to get eliminated from the men’s draw, with Tommy Paul still needing to win in the afternoon to reach the third round.Novak Djokovic cruises into third round of US Open as Laslo Djere retires in third set
After the third game of the second set, Korda took a medical timeout to get his right arm looked at, and later in the match, a trainer examined that arm again, too. Korda, still, is just 24 years old. He’s the son of former Grand Slam champion Petr Korda, the sister of top LPGA golfer Nelly Korda and — even after this latest setback — a key piece of the future core in American tennis.
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