Nadal

Frances Tiafoe, 24, is the youngest American man to reach the US Open quarterfinals since Andy Roddick in 2006.

[Carlos Alcaraz](https://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=3782), and No. 11 [Jannik Sinner](https://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=3623) vs. 1 seed and defending champion](/tennis/story/_/id/34524901/casper-ruud-continues-run-new-york-outlasts-corentin-moutet-adva) [Daniil Medvedev](https://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=2383). [Andrey Rublev](https://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=2642) next. 2 [Gustavo Kuerten](https://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=577) in the first. [Nick Kyrgios](https://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=1984), [eliminated No. Then he made it to the semifinals at Wimbledon in July before withdrawing from that tournament because of a torn abdominal muscle; that does not go into the books as a loss, because he pulled out before the match. This is also just the second major since the start of 2005 without any of Federer, Djokovic and Nadal in the quarterfinals. Djokovic, who is 35, did not enter this US Open because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and was not allowed to enter the United States; Federer, 41, has undergone a series of operations on his right knee and has not played since Wimbledon last year. And he kept his cool, remained in the moment and never let the stakes or the opponent get to him. He sat on the bench and buried his head in a towel as Nadal walked off and waved to the crowd. Tiafoe, seeded 22nd at Flushing Meadows, buried his head in his hands and cried on the court after he shook hands with No.

Frances Tiafoe becomes the first American man to reach the quarter-finals in New York since John Isner in 2018. © Mike Stobe/Getty Images.

[Marcos Giron](https://www.atptour.com/en/players/marcos-giron/gc88/overview), [Jason Kubler](https://www.atptour.com/en/players/jason-kubler/kb95/overview) and [Diego Schwartzman](https://www.atptour.com/en/players/diego-schwartzman/sm37/overview) in straight sets during the opening week in New York and is now up to No. [Carlos Alcaraz](https://www.atptour.com/en/players/carlos-alcaraz/a0e2/overview) and Norway’s [Casper Ruud](https://www.atptour.com/en/players/casper-ruud/rh16/overview). Earlier this season he enjoyed a run to the final in Estoril, before he advanced to the fourth round at [Wimbledon](https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/wimbledon/540/overview). 2 Spaniard in the third round in 2005. [Arthur Ashe](https://www.atptour.com/en/players/arthur-ashe/a063/overview) Stadium to earn his third Top 5 win. “When I first came on the scene I felt like a lot of people had a lot of expectations on me on how I would do,” Tiafoe said. He then hit a double fault at 30/40 to gift the Spaniard the set. Tiafoe stuck to his game plan, though, and worked his way back into the set. 1](https://www.atptour.com/en/news/nadal-alcaraz-ruud-us-open-2022-world-no-1-scenarios). When serving at 4-5, 15/15, the American misjudged a backhand from Nadal, leaving a ball that caught the line. In a lively first set, Tiafoe quickly found his range from the baseline. Tiafoe had never won a set against Nadal and trailed the Spaniard 0-2 in their ATP Head2Head series prior to their meeting in New York.

The Hyattsville, Md., native was sharp throughout four sets and became the first player to beat Nadal at a major this year.

She rose from 76th in the world at the end of that year to a career-high seventh this season after teaming up with David Witt, Venus Williams’s former longtime coach, and dedicating more time to the professional side of professional tennis: eating right, preparing thoroughly and taking care of her body. But in the next game, Nadal served two double faults and Tiafoe didn’t let the chance slip through his fingers. Am I ever going to be able to say I beat one of them? Today I was like, no, I’m going to do that,” Tiafoe said. “The biggest thing with things like that is the time I played him before, I got broken so early in each set,” Tiafoe said. Tiafoe’s victory denied Nadal the chance to expand his lead over Novak Djokovic (21) and Federer (20) in Grand Slam wins. His physical improvement has led to a He was the first man to beat Nadal at a major this year, with the Spaniard having won the Australian Open and the French Open. He had been practicing with a high level of intensity ahead of the tournament but couldn’t serve with the same ferocity because scar tissue on his abdomen limited his movement. When he clinched it by forcing a backhand error from Nadal, he chucked his racket toward his chair and placed his hands around his head. He is through to his first U.S. But Monday, with a smart, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 win over Rafael Nadal, he displayed a tactician’s discipline in ousting the 22-time Grand Slam champion.

American Frances Tiafoe played the match of his life to beat second seed Rafa Nadal 6-4 4-6 6-4 6-3 in the fourth round of the U.S. Open on Monday.

After the match he donned a hoodie that listed all of Serena Williams' 23 Grand Slam victories on the back. You earned it!" With the win, Tiafoe snapped Nadal's streak of 17 straight majors where he reached the quarter-finals or better. you can't win," he told reporters. The Spaniard produced nine double faults and hit just 33 winners to Tiafoe's 48. I played unbelievable tennis today but I really don’t know what happened."

Nadal no pudo con Tiafoe en los octavos de final del US Open y cayó en cuatro sets.

6 4 Además, logró superar los octavos de final por primera ocasión en su carrera en el US Open, igualando su mejor avance en Grand Slams (cuartos de final en Australia 2019).

Tiafoe cerró el camino de Nadal hacia su 23 torneo de Grand Slam en el último "grande" de la temporada. Ahora el estadounidense se verá las caras con Andrey ...

En cualquier caso, cedió su servicio, pero devolvió el break de inmediato, algo que no había sucedido en todo el partido. En su siguiente juego al saque, arriesgó hasta con el segundo servicio, con el que logró un ace. Tiafoe protestó por tener que sacar con el ruido de los paneles del techo moviéndose. El de Manacor mantuvo su saque, pero mostraba indicios de cansancio, no pudo devolver el break y vio cómo se escapaba la tercera manga. El tercer parcial mantuvo el discurso del anterior, con ambos tenistas negándose a ceder bolas de rotura gracias a buenos saques (un ace de Tiafoe alcanzó las 138 millas por hora) para dominar los puntos desde el fondo de la pista hasta el 3-3. En los primeros compases Tiafoe y Nadal se tantearon desde el fondo de la pista sin tomar demasiados riesgos.

El estadounidense elimina en los octavos de Nueva York al español, que cierra un sinuoso torneo repleto de complicaciones: 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 y 6-3 (en 3h33m)

Así se acaba este complicado trazado del balear en este US Open, que comenzó a trompicones y finaliza de la misma forma. El tono mejora pero la historia continúa siendo un tú a tú en toda regla porque pese al desliz al cierre de esa manga, el rival no se arruga lo más mínimo. Y es una tarde retorcida, de las que exigen paciencia y aguantar el tipo; solo cabe sostenerse y resistir, evitar pasos en falso porque todo se decide en un parejo juego de equilibrios. Tiafoe suelta un par de exabruptos y vuelve a la carga. “¡Intenta mandar tú!”, le indican a Nadal desde el banquillo, demandándole que dé un paso al frente y tome las riendas porque el adversario sigue, sigue y sigue a velocidad de crucero. A Tiafoe le ha faltado finura y ha desaprovechado una volea clara con 3-3 y 0-30 a su favor en el primer parcial; pasa ese tren, pero se sube al siguiente. Transcurre todo el primer set sin costearse una sola opción de rotura y, en cambio, el norteamericano atina a la primera que dispone. Advertía Tiafoe de que ahora sí estaba preparado para inclinar a Nadal, que era “mucho mejor” que ese tenista que apenas pudo hacerle cosquillas al balear en los dos precedentes –Australia y Madrid en 2019, triunfos inmaculados– y que iba ir con todo a por su rival. Es decir, apea a Rafael Nadal después de este adverso periplo neoyorquino para el español, al que le ha faltado chispa y juego en los octavos, y también tranquilidad durante la estadía en las Américas. Lo he intentado”, sintetiza el de Manacor, trastabillado desde su aterrizaje en Flushing Meadows por cuestiones que van más allá de los problemas con el saque (por el abdominal) o de su mejor o peor rodaje. Nadal frunce el ceño rápido, consciente de que delante tiene un hueso que plantea un cruce laberíntico y que no abre la puerta ni para renovar el ambiente sobrecargado de la Arthur Ashe. [Hay veces que uno puede con todo y otras que no](https://elpais.com/deportes/2022-09-02/mas-que-nunca-nadal-de-carne-y-hueso.html).

NUEVA YORK (AP) — Frances Tiafoe dio al traste con la racha de 22 victorias de Rafael Nadal en las citas del Grand Slam tras derrotar el lunes al astro.

De principio a fin, Nadal padeció para amortiguar el servicio de Tiafoe. El ciclo natural de la vida... Federer, con 41 años, se ha sometido a varias cirugías en la rodilla derecha y ha estado ausente de la gira desde el Wimbledon del año pasado. Es el círculo de la vida”, respondió el astro español. La eliminación de Nadal dejó al US Open con apenas un campeón de Grand Slam en carrera: Marin Cilic. Tiafoe dio al traste con la racha de 22 victorias de Nadal en las grandes citas este año, imponiéndose 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3.

In front of a rowdy home crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium, the 22nd seed became the first man to beat Nadal on court in a grand slam this year. It also marks the ...

As he digested a bitter end to a great, complicated year, Nadal brushed off questions about his preparation and the abdominal injury that meant he only played in one tournament before the US Open. “But days will pass and I’ll keep going as I’ve done my whole life and I’m confident I have the inner strength to do it again.” So to see him post that, I was like, ‘Do I retweet it as soon as he sent it?’ I was like, ‘You know what, I’m going to be cool and act like I didn’t see it and then retweet it three hours later.’” “It’s been a few months a little difficult in every way, this is the reality. Hype has followed him since he was a teenager but he has had to be patient in adulthood, watching as his contemporaries rise up above him in the rankings and waiting to experience such moments himself. Am I ever going to be able to say I beat one of them?’ Today I was like, ‘No, I’m going to do that.’ So now, it’s something to tell the kids, the grandkids, ‘Yeah, I beat Rafa.’ Hopefully I never play him again, but hope I end with a win.” The NBA star LeBron James, Tiafoe’s idol, was among those to pay tribute to Tiafoe’s display on Twitter. “My legs were like cement,” said Tiafoe of the lengthy 4-3 game. “I was telling my agent, I felt like the world stopped. I was already tearing. I’m beyond happy, I’m almost in tears,” said Tiafoe during his on-court interview. It also marks the first time since Wimbledon 2017 that Nadal has lost before the quarter-final stage of a grand slam.

Twenty-two-time grand slam champion Rafael Nadal was upset in the fourth round of the US Open on Monday by American Frances Tiafoe at Arthur Ashe Stadium in ...

Tiafoe picked up the sport, getting to play at the center for free, and fell in love with the sport. "The difference is easy," Nadal said afterward. "I just had a big passion for the game. "But I don't think I pushed him enough to create him the doubts that I need to create," he said. "It was definitely one hell of a performance," he said following the match. It helps I played him a couple times."

El español Rafael Nadal fue vencido en la cuarta ronda del US Open el lunes por el estadounidense Frances Tiafoe.

El lunes dijo a los periodistas: "Para nosotros estar alrededor del tenis fue algo así como que algo nos ayudaba a salir de nuestro vecindario. Tafloe eligió el tenis, al poder jugar en el centro de forma gratuita y se enamoró del deporte. Una vez que nos metimos en el juego de tenis, fue como si mi padre dijera: Sería increíble si pudieran usar esto como una beca completa para la escuela. Para verlos experimentar que yo venciera a Rafa Nadal, me han visto tener grandes victorias, pero el vencer a esos muchachos de Mount Rushmore, para ellos, no puedo imaginar lo que pasaba por sus cabezas. Nadal, de 36 años, registró su primera derrota en un gran Slam este año y ahora tiene marca de 22-1 esta temporada. "Definitivamente fue una gran actuación", dijo después el partido.

His loss to Frances Tiafoe was Nadal's earliest defeat at a major tournament in more than five years and the first time he had been beaten in any major in ...

[won Wimbledon](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/10/sports/tennis/novak-djokovic-wimbledon.html) and will presumably be hungry for more success if he can play a fuller schedule in 2023. But there would be no semifinal match, as [Nadal withdrew before facing Nick Kyrgios](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/sports/tennis/nadal-wimbledon.html), and there will be no deep run at the U.S. Nadal holds two of the four majors and will reclaim the No. But a new era is surely on the horizon. [arrived in London relieved and reinvigorated](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/sports/tennis/nadal-wimbledon-grand-slam.html), only to strain his abdominal muscle in a quarterfinal victory over Fritz. “Fifteen minutes after losing at the last Grand Slam tournament of the year, everything is dark, but that’s normal,” Nadal said in Spanish. But I don’t think I pushed him enough to create in him the doubts that I need to create. But after mulling retirement for the second time in a year, Nadal found a way — with the help of regular painkilling injections — to win his 14th French Open. Nadal spent too much of the match well behind the baseline, sprinting to the corners and lunging to extend rallies (or not). Though he somehow reached the final, losing to Taylor Fritz, the new injury cut short his preparation for his beloved clay-court season. That injury cost him preparation time ahead of the U.S. But a strange thing happened on the way to another revival.

Rafael Nadal cae ante Frances Tiafoe este lunes en la cuarta ronda del US Open. © AFP/Getty Images. ATP Staff Sep 05, 2022. Las reflexiones del español tras ...

En todo caso, aunque ya haya sido eliminado, su nombre aún queda vivo en el torneo: dependiendo de lo que suceda esta semana en Nueva York podría subir el próximo lunes 12 de septiembre al No. Rafa se ha convertido en Nueva York en el primer clasificado en individuales para este certamen que se disputará en Turín entre los ocho mejores del año. Debo felicitar a mi rival, que ha sido mejor que yo”, agrega el cuatro veces campeón de este torneo. Ahora es el momento del nacimiento de mi primer hijo y confiar en que todo salga bien”. Aun así, durante esta quincena logró vencer a Hijikata, Fognini y Gasquet para ponerse en posición de su décima clasificación a cuartos de final del US Open. Pero aun con la desazón de apenas su tercera derrota de la temporada en pistas rápidas, Rafa intentó analizar las razones de su eliminación en Nueva York, donde no caía desde septiembre de 2018 ante Juan Martín del Potro en semifinales.

Nadal no pudo con Tiafoe en los octavos de final del US Open y cayó en cuatro sets.

6 4 Además, logró superar los octavos de final por primera ocasión en su carrera en el US Open, igualando su mejor avance en Grand Slams (cuartos de final en Australia 2019).

Luego de haber sido eliminado del US Open, el español Rafa Nadal no quiso dar pistas sobre su próximo regreso a las canchas y dejó saber que su objetivo ...

Precisamente hace un par de semanas, esta fue sometida a una intervención quirúrgica por recomendación médica. “Han sido unos meses un poquito difíciles en todos los sentidos, esta es la realidad. Como te puedes imaginar, ahora mismo se me hace difícil hacer un análisis claro de lo que va a ser mi futuro inmediato“, agregó el europeo.

Rafael Nadal reflects on his fourth-round loss against Frances Tiafoe at the US Open, where he was pursuing his 23rd Grand Slam title.

The lefty made the semi-finals at [Wimbledon](https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/wimbledon/540/overview) before withdrawing due to injury. [Fabio Fognini](https://www.atptour.com/en/players/fabio-fognini/f510/overview). 7 [Richard Gasquet](https://www.atptour.com/en/players/richard-gasquet/g628/overview). “I was not able to do anything, any of these things this afternoon. I had a Love-30 in the first set, second serve, I missed the return. “But at the end of the day I need to analyse myself more than the opponent. I had that break, then I had again a 15/40. At the end the only thing that happened is we went to the fourth round of the That's the only way to improve or that's the only way that I understand you are able to find solutions.” “I was not able to hold a high level of tennis for a long time. Or maybe I lost [other] things because I was not able to create this interior power after all that injuries. “We can make lamentations or we can complain now about a lot of things, but I don't think that [is] going to change any situation,” Nadal said.

No. 22 seed Frances Tiafoe defeats Rafael Nadal to end the Spaniard's 22-match Grand Slam winning streak and reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the first ...

When one last backhand by Nadal found the net, Tiafoe chucked his racket and put his hands on his head. Earlier in the tournament, he lost the first set of his first-round match. "It signifies that the years go by," Nadal said. Then he made it to the semifinals at Wimbledon in July before withdrawing from that tournament because of a torn abdominal muscle. "At the end that's it." "I felt like the world stopped," Tiafoe said. "I mean, they're going to remember today for the rest of their lives." And he kept his cool, remained in the moment and never let the stakes or the opponent get to him. 2 Gustavo Kuerten in the first. They ended up in Maryland, where Constant helped construct a tennis training center for juniors, then became a maintenance man there; Alphina, Frances said, was "a nurse, working two jobs, working overtime through the nights." For them, I can't imagine what was going through their heads," said Tiafoe, a 24-year-old American seeded 22nd at the U.S. He was thrilled — overwhelmed, even — when the last point was over and it hit him that, yes, he had ended Rafael Nadal's 22-match Grand Slam winning streak Monday and reached the U.S.

American Frances Tiafoe beat Rafael Nadal in four sets on Monday for the biggest victory of his career, and the U.S. Open is anyone's to win now.

The furthest he’s ever made it at a major was the quarters in 2019 in Australia. This was a real win for the guy on the other side of the net. CA: Tiafoe has made it to the fourth round of the last two editions of this tournament … So for Frances to overcome that and not just have straight shotmaking that we always expect from him, but to have it at the right time, that’s huge. There was a lot made of his improved fitness, and he didn’t visibly tire at all in a nearly four-hour match. CA: So, yes, to linger on the really impressive performance from Tiafoe today: the serve was huge and he got himself out of a lot of jams with it. A lot of flat balls in the high 130s painting the lines. This wasn’t the favorite getting bounced for hitting a linesperson in the throat. It wasn’t Nadal with his A game—it was maybe his B+ game—but this wasn’t a bad match from him. Last time a draw looked anything like this was in 2020 at the bubble U.S. And now we're left with the most wide-open draw that we've seen at a major on the men's side in a long time. So once Djokovic was out, it was kind of a pillow fight to see who was going to win it.

Rafa Nadal said he needed to "fix things" and was unsure about his return to competitive tennis after his bid for a men's record-extending 23rd Grand Slam ...

23-25 Laver Cup in London alongside his great rivals Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray. "I need to fix things, life, then I don't know when I (am) going to come back. It was Nadal's first tournament at Flushing Meadows since he lifted his fourth U.S. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com I (am) going to try to be ready mentally.