#NextGenATP lefties Dominic Stricker and Shang Juncheng secured US Open qualifying wins Thursday to maneuver one step nearer in the direction of making their maiden main-draw look on the season’s closing main.

The Swiss Stricker survived fellow #NextGenATP star Pablo Llamas Ruiz 6-7(2), 6-4, 7-6(13-11) in a dramatic two hours, 41 minutes. Stricker and the Spaniard had been locked at 9/9 within the Match Tie-break when rain stopped play for almost three hours.

When gamers returned to courtroom, the twenty second seed Stricker put the ending touches on the victory, changing his third match level, to set a gathering with Argentine Thiago Agustin Tirante, who ousted American Brandon Holt 7-6(4), 6-3.

Shang, 18, downed residence hope Patrick Kypson 6-4, 7-6(2) after profitable 81 per cent of his first-serve factors to set a gathering with twenty eighth seed Finn Otto Virtanen. 

The 21-year-old Stricker is tenth within the Pepperstone ATP Race to Jeddah, whereas Shang is seventeenth. This 12 months’s Subsequent Gen ATP Finals, which hosts the season’s finest 21-and-under gamers, can be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Stricker is aiming for a second consecutive look on the occasion. The Chinese language star Shang is in search of his maiden qualification.

In different motion Thursday at Flushing Meadows, Chinese language Taipei’s Yu Hsiou Hsu escaped twentieth seed Benoit Paire 6-3, 3-6, 7-5. Third seed Federico Coria cruised previous American Martin Damm 6-3, 6-2. Fourth seed Taro Daniel defeated South Korean Seongchan Hong 6-2, 4-6, 6-1.