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Valentin Vacherot defeated Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-2, 6-3, 7-5 — US Open 2026 R128.
Valentin Vacherot and Aleksandar Kovacevic: Valentin Vacherot leads 1–0 across 1 recorded meeting.
The serve settled it: Vacherot held all 14 of his service games and never faced a break point, while Kovacevic was broken four times and piled up 37 unforced errors to 21. The last of those breaks landed in game 11 for 6-5, and the No. 22 seed closed it out from there in 1 hour 53 minutes. It also ends a three-match losing run stretching back to July and moves him into the second round at the US Open.