Let’s be honest for a moment. Armchair pundits are bored with it, his fans and allies are sick of hearing it, and more than anyone, he is probably sick of it.

In a sport where Alexander Zverev is routinely touted as the best active player never to win a Grand Slam, how much do you think Andrey Rublev wants to be talked about as the greatest player never to make it past a quarterfinal?

Yet here we are, still discussing it. And more so, because the man himself almost took it out of the conversation once more at the US Open , when he had to rally to defeat Hong Kong qualifier Coleman Wong in a five-set third round battle .

Now, as he prepares for his fourth-round match against Canadian maverick Félix Auger-Aliassime, who vanquished the aforementioned Zverev in a brilliant four-set dis

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