Watch: Khachanov’s Mind-Blowing Match Point Miss In RG Win

By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Photo credit: Roland Garros Screen Shot

Karen Khachanov survived a mind-blowing shanked smash on match point to reach the Roland Garros third round.

On his first match point, watch Khachanov set up inside the service line for a routine smash.

All seems well until it all goes horribly wrong.

In miscue that would make most hackers cringe in sympathy, Khachanov shanks the smash off the top of the frame and sees it sail high into the Court Suzanne Lenglen crowd as fans erupt in roars.

Trungelliti is not done yet, saves match point and breaks Khachanov 🤯#RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/dXB62b0cx8

— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) May 27, 2026

It all went down in Khachanov’s 7-6(5), 5-7, 6-1, 7-6(4) victory over 36-year-old Argentinean showman Marco Trungelliti, who smiled at the unlikely match-point reprieve.

After blowing that match point on the smash mash at 5-4, 40-30, Khachanov saw Trungelliti break back as the fourth set escalated into a tiebreaker.

The breaker was deadlocked at 4-all when Khachanov ran down an outrageous Trungelliti angled dropper and shoveled a reply down the line. That slick retrieval helped push Khachanov over the line into the Roland Garros third round for the eighth time in 10 appearances.

The 13th-seeded Khachanov, a two-time French Open quarterfinalist, will face lucky loser Jesper de Jong for a fourth-round spot. De Jong, who lost to Columbia all-American Michael Zheng in the final round of qualifying, has beaten Stan Wawrinka and Federico Cina in back-to-back main-draw victories.