Alexander Zverev vs Karen Khachanov Head-to-Head

Two 6ft 6in right-handers who both build from a big first serve and a two-handed backhand, which is why so many of these meetings have turned on a single break or a tie-break rather than on long baseline exchanges. The 2026 US Open semi-final was the pattern in miniature: Zverev won it in straight sets and two of those sets went to tie-breaks, 9-7 and 8-6. Khachanov's three wins have all required him to out-hit Zverev from the back of the court, and two came at the Canadian Open, in 2019 and again in the 2025 semi-final, which is the only three-set win he has managed in the series.

Zverev leads 7-3 and five of his seven wins came in straight sets, with a sixth ending when Khachanov retired at Cincinnati in 2025. The series is a hard-court one, nine of the ten meetings, so grass form tells you nothing here and the single clay meeting is now eight years old. The one split worth knowing is the Canadian Open, where Khachanov has won both meetings, in 2019 and in the 2025 semi-final.