Felix Auger-Aliasim vs Daniil Medvedev: US Open Semifinals – LIVE!

1st set: auger-aliasim 4-5 medvedev* (*denotes the next server)

Auger-Aliassim took possession of the ship after his two-game wobble, breaking three aces to catch from the front. But this break could be good as Medvedev will work for the opening set after a change of ends.

1st set: * auger-aliasim 3-5 Medvedev (*denotes the next server)

Medvedev loved to support the break, pounding his third and fourth aces along the way. The wheels have shifted a bit for Auger-Aliassie, who have lost eight points in a row. Auger-Aliasim will serve to stay in the first set.

Medvedev breaks the break in the seventh game of the first set!

1st set: Auger-aliasim 3-4 Medvedev* (*denotes the next server)

A couple of loose forehands by Auger-Aliassime and he’s down to LOVE-30 quickly on his serve. Medvedev then ripped a forehand that Auger-Aliassim could not return to the game for Love-40 and a triple break point, the first break opportunity for any player in the day. And Medvedev needs only one of them, overtaking Auger-Aliasime on a 12-shot exchange to break the love and draw first blood in this opening set.

1st set: *auger-aliasim 3-3 Medvedev (*denotes the next server)

Medvedev blinks first at the end of the 14-shot exchange, the longest ever, to fall behind on his serve at Love-15 for the first time. But he gets four very quick points from there – a 125mph serve winner, a 126mph first to set up an early forehand winner, a 77mph second-serve unrefundable and a 116mph widest – to hold comfortably.

1st set: Auger-Aliasim 3-2 Medvedev* (*denotes the next server)

Auger-Aliasim easily grabbed hold of his strongest serve game yet, which included a 127mph serve winner and a 120mph irreversible on game point.

1st set: *auger-aliasim 2-2 Medvedev (*denotes the next server)

Medvedev shores up for another stress-free catch, past three winners, including a 106mph ace along the way.

1st set: Auger-Aliasim 2-1 Medvedev* (*denotes the next server)

Medvedev, after settling a 12-shot rally with a big overhand winner, pushes it up 30-all, pushing Auger-Aliasime a bit on his serve. But Canada took two quick points from there, narrowing the hold with their fourth winner of the day.

1st set: *auger-aliassim 1-1 Medvedev (*denotes the next server)

Medvedev advances through his opening serve game, placing everyone except one on first serve and lovingly catching it.

1st set: Auger-Aliasim 1-0 Medvedev* (*denotes the next server)

Conditions on the court as low as 23C (74F) with light breeze, feel as cold as on the ash for a day-long session during this tournament. Auger-aliassim is serving to start. He races for 30-love, then 40-30, before double-faulting for deuce. He has served only one first out of six so far. Auger-Aliassim comes up with a forehand winner for game points and then a second double fault for a deuce. Tricky opening service game. But from there he rips a 126 mph ace down the pipe and is followed by a crisp inside-out that Medvedev can’t get back into the game to escape the catch.

Not long ago on Ash, Joe Salisbury of Britain won the men’s doubles title With American Rajeev Ram. The fourth-seeded pair registered a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 win over Jamie Murray and Brazil’s Bruno Suares in the first major doubles final of the professional era, with British men on either side of the net.

The match was moved to the session the day before the first men’s singles semi-final between Auger-Aliasime and Medvedev, but the tournament’s organizers allowed ticket holders for the upper bowl to fill courtside seats on the ashes, leading to a comparison of men’s doubles. A lively atmosphere was created. Finals have seen in previous years.

Salisbury also plays its mixed doubles semifinal with American Desira Kravczyk later today. He is striving to become the first man since Bob Bryan in 2010 to win the US Open men’s and mixed doubles titles in the same year.

“I think before we played, everyone felt like it was great that there were two Brits in the final,” Salisbury said in his presser moments after the match. “Obviously whatever happened there was going to be a British conqueror.

“If we hadn’t won that, it was them, I’d be glad it was two great guys. I would have been really happy for them. Obviously to be great, yes, to be a winner for British tennis.”

Hello and welcome to Arthur Ashe Stadium for the first of today’s two US Open men’s semifinals between Felix Auger-Aliasime and Daniil Medvedev. Auger-Aliasime, Joe on Tuesday Canada became the first US Open men’s semifinalist in the tournament’s 140-year history, and 20-year-old Juan Martín del Potro is bidding to become the youngest man from any country to reach the last four after winning the 2009 title. . Canada’s second men’s singles final since 2016 Wimbledon runner-up Milos Raonic. But today his hand will be with Medvedev, the in-form No. 2 seed, who won his only prior meeting in a final-set tiebreaker in 2018 Toronto, spoiling Auger-Aliassim’s 18th birthday.

Players should be on the court in five minutes for their practice and we’ll pick it up from there with game-by-play coverage.

Brian will be here soon, meanwhile here’s how the women’s final is shaping up:

There’s the unexpected and it is: a US Open final between two teenagers ranked 73rd and 150th in the world.

this is where things stand Thursday’s Extraordinary Women’s Semi-Final Twin Bills At Arthur Ashe Stadium, the latest shocking development in the season-ending Grand Slam continues to unfold in the most unexpected ways, despite the absence of some of the sport’s brightest stars.

thirty eight months ago, Emma Radukanu and Leyla Anne Fernandez in the second round of Wimbledon girls’ singles. Now they will cross paths for the first time to play in the world’s largest tennis stadium: a $2.5m check and will surely go down as the most unexpected US Open championship on record – no matter who wins.

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