Botic van de Zandschulp: results and Grand Slam runs

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Recap

Zverev ends the tournament's best story and passes a record Becker held for 37 years

Two hours 17, one break point faced, a 33-shot rally when it mattered. Zverev is in his third US Open semi-final, and no German man has won this many Slam matches in a year.

Preview

Zverev has had the kinder draw. Van de Zandschulp has had the better fortnight

One man has barely met a seed. The other saved a match point in the fourth-longest match in US Open history. They meet on Arthur Ashe tonight.

About the player

Botic van de Zandschulp is a Dutch professional tennis player from Wageningen, born on 4 October 1995. He turned professional in 2016 and is coached by Raemon Sluiter.

He broke through at the 2021 US Open, where he came through qualifying to reach the quarter-finals and became only the third qualifier in the tournament's history to do so, after Nicolas Escudé in 1999 and Gilles Müller in 2008. That run also made him the first Dutch man to reach a Grand Slam quarter-final since Sjeng Schalken in 2004, and it lifted him into the world's top 100 for the first time.

A right-hander with a two-handed backhand, van de Zandschulp is an all-court player whose reputation is built on durability rather than power. He reached a second US Open quarter-final in 2026 after beating Alex de Minaur and surviving back-to-back five-set matches, one of which was the fourth-longest in the tournament's history.

ArenaBulletin covers his Grand Slam campaigns and tour results.