By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday September 14, 2020

It’s time to see who the first men’s singles Grand Slam champion born in the 1990’s is. Will it be Dominic Thiem or Alexander Zverev? Let’s go inside the numbers and take a look at Sunday’s men’s singles final in New York.

2004 The last time a player not born in the 1980’s won a men’s singles Grand Slam title, but that will change this weekend in New York when one of the four players, who are all born in the 1990’s becomes the first player born from that decade to win a major title.

7-2 Thiem has taken seven of nine meetings with Zverev, including the last three, which includes their four-set semifinal at this year’s Australian Open.

23 At 23 years of age, Alexander Zverev is bidding to become the youngest major singles champion since 20-year-old Juan Martin del Potro won the title at the 2009 US Open.

0-7 Alexander Zverev's record against Top 10 players at a Grand Slam.

5 Number of men that have lost their first five men’s singles finals: Andre Agassi, Goran Ivanisevic, Andy Murray Ivan Lendl and Thiem. If he loses, he will join Murray and Lendl as the only men who dropped their first major finals.

1989 Zverev is bidding to become the first German to win the US Open men’s singles title since Boris Becker in 1989.

1995 Thiem hopes to become the first Austrian to win a Grand Slam singles title since Thomas Muster at 1995 in Roland Garros.

42 Either Thiem or Zverev will become the 42nd consecutive men’s singles Grand Slam champion from Europe (since Juan Martin del Potro won the US Open title in 2010.

6’6” Zverev is bidding to tie Juan Martin del Potro and Marin Cilic as the tallest Grand Slam champion in Open Era history.

3 Zverev has rallied from a set down in three of his six wins at the 2020 US Open.

5 Number of Thiem’s wins at the 2020 US Open that have come in straight sets.

2016 The last time a player younger than 30 won a men’s singles Grand Slam title (Andy Murray, Wimbledon). Either Thiem or Zverev will become the next on Sunday.