Tiafoe vs Alcaraz

For years, tennis fans have been fearing the day the sport's 'Big Three' all finally decide to hang up their rackets.

I could play tennis for free, the sport I loved," he told CNN Sport back in 2015, adding that he wouldn't change his upbringing for the world. 24 in the world -- he's currently 26th -- and this year has shown flashes of the quality that many predicted would take him to the top. But make no mistake, given Tiafoe's disappointing form coming into the US Open, there was no indication that he would make a deep run in New York. "I feel great to be in my first semifinal in a grand slam," Alcaraz said after his epic five-set victory over Janek Sinner. Everybody's got a gift." "I feel better reaching the semifinal here in US Open ... However, the big-hitting Washington, D.C. Last month, Tiafoe reached a career-high of No. 4 in the world. So for me, it's quite cool." For me, I don't know what to say about an unbelievable month for me. For me, it's pretty good.

Frances Tiafoe, the American on a rollicking run, is in need of a comeback against Carlos Alcaraz of Spain in their semifinal match. The winner will play in ...

He held his serve again, extending his lead to 5-1, but Khachanov refused to lose the match on his serve and pushed it to 5-2, finishing the game with an ace. Alcaraz returned the shot reaching behind his back as he leaped, and then sprinted to return Sinner’s volley with a backhand to bring the game to deuce. He won the match with an ace to become the first American man to make the U.S. His first set of the tournament was close, going to a tiebreaker that he won 7-0. Tiafoe would have chances to get back in the set twice more, but Alcaraz shut the door both times, the first by mixing slices and topspin through a long rally, and then once more with a serve Tiafoe could not get back. After taking the first set in a tiebreaker, Tiafoe stayed even with Alcaraz through the first five games, but trouble arrived when he was serving at 2-3. “I went there when I was nine and he was eight,” Dennis said during a changeover in the second set. A twist of his hips, a flick of his wrist, and the ball is sailing past. He was leading 40-15, but Alcaraz leveled the score with the help of a Tiafoe double fault. Tiafoe had just won his 16th set out of 17 he had played in the tournament. Tiafoe got his first chance to win the set while leading 6-5, with Alcaraz serving, and then earned four more chances when the set moved to a tiebreaker. Tiafoe and Alcaraz hugged in the middle of the court, and when they separated, Alcaraz pointed at Tiafoe, urging the fans to let him hear them one last time.

Tiafoe, a 24-year-old from Hyattsville, Md., was aiming to become the first American man to win a U.S. Open singles championship since Andy Roddick.

Open (eight) in the process. But he found new life in a tightly contested fourth set, which the No. The No.

Rolling report: Carlos Alcaraz will play Casper Ruud in the final after a thrilling win over Frances Tiafoe.

With Tiafoe coming to the net, a few feet to the left of the center line, Alcaraz somehow finds just enough space to sneak it past a dejected Tiafoe. The crowd tries to give Tiafoe a lift, but he looks out of sorts on the next rally and hits long. Then Tiafoe hits a brilliant cross-court shot, with about one-quarter of the ball catching the line. Alcaraz wins the next, but Tiafoe pounds Alcaraz’s second serve with some fury and wins a brief rally to get back to deuce. A forehand winner stops the skid, but Tiafoe continues to falter and double faults to give Alcaraz two break points. He does it again on the next, but this one pops up for Tiafoe to smash for deuce. Tiafoe takes a longer break, leaving Alcaraz waiting on the court. On the next two points, Tiafoe has Alcaraz beaten, and Alcaraz simply responds with a wonder shot – a lob deep to one corner that Tiafoe races back to get and hit only as far as the net, then a cross-court winner off a drop shot. Tiafoe comes around the net and gives Alcaraz a good hug. Tiafoe runs Alcaraz from one side of the court to the other, approaches the net and volleys, Alcaraz scrambles and ends up putting a lob just inside the baseline. At 15-30, Tiafoe hits effectively and comes to the net for an easy shot – that he hits well long and wide. Alcaraz slowly builds up an advantage, but Tiafoe gets a bit lucky with a ball of the net cord.

Carlos Alcaraz will play for his first Grand Slam title, and a shot at the world No. 1 ranking, after taking out American Francis Tiafoe 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-1, ...

He regrouped and broke to go up in the second set, and a pivotal juncture arrived with Alcaraz serving at 5-3 but facing a break point. As on that forehand, Alcaraz often rips the ball with abandon -- and, somehow, with precision, too, aiming for the lines and finding them. One arrived in the second set's third game, when Alcaraz saved a break point and went on to hold. [Carlos Alcaraz](https://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=3782) and [Frances Tiafoe](https://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=2708) engaged in a high-level, high-energy spectacle of a back-and-forth semifinal at the US Open -- no point over when it seemed to be, no ball out of reach, no angle too audacious. A smiling Tiafoe jokingly climbed over the net to Alcaraz's side, as if to go shake hands at match's end. Alcaraz appeared to seize control by grabbing nine of 10 games in one stretch and could have ended the evening when he held a match point in the fourth set. No surprise, given he was the first American man in the semifinals at Flushing Meadows in 16 years. He was better when he needed to be, taking four of the last five games. "This one hurts. Ultimately, enough of the winners went Alcaraz's way, and too many of the mistakes came from Tiafoe's racket. "Too good from Carlos tonight," Tiafoe said. "You have give everything on court," he said.

Strap yourself in for a breathless encounter between No.3 seed Carlos Alcaraz and home hero Frances Tiafoe in the semi-final of the US Open.

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3 seed Carlos Alcaraz is set to face #22 seed Frances Tiafoe in the semifinals at the US Open. We break down what you need to know.

The winner will face the winner of No. 2 Rafael Nadal in the fourth round, and No. 14 Diego Schwartzman in the third round, No. 1 player in the world. 11 Jannik Sinner in the quarterfinals. In 2021, Tiafoe claimed a straight sets win in the first round of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell, which is a clay court tournament.

US Open Men's Singles semifinals Highlights: Alcaraz defeated Jannik Sinner while Tiafoe beat Andrey Rublev to get to the semifinals.

With only one quarterfinal appearance in a Grand Slam previously under his belt, he defeated top-20 players Diego Schwartzman, Nadal and Andrey Rublev in ...

Tiafoe brutalized a second serve with a backhand down the line to break for 2-2, but Alcaraz immediately went back into attack mode and broke Tiafoe at love right away. It was a quality match from both players: Alcaraz hit 59 winners to 36 unforced errors, while Tiafoe finished with 51 winners and 52 errors. With Tiafoe serving at 2-3 in the second set, Alcaraz finally generated the first break for either player and seemed to only gain strength and energy from there. But Tiafoe kept battling on, retrieving that break and then doing it for a second time with some stunning shotmaking to eventually level the set at 3-3. But Tiafoe responded with some canny serving, and Alcaraz just missed two forehands wide that evened the match. Tiafoe showed tremendous heart and toughness in this semifinal, continually battling at moments when it appeared Alcaraz was on the verge of running away with it.

The Spanish teenager reached his first grand slam final after overcoming his American opponent in an absorbing match under the lights in New York.

After chasing down a match point at 4-5 to claw back from the brink, the former First Lady sprung from her courtside seat and pumped her fist as a wall of sound cascaded down from the mezzanine. By then, they should have known better as the relentless Tiafoe broke back in the fourth game, pumping his fist as he sprinted to his chair. Should he prevail in Sunday’s final, Alcaraz will become the youngest ever player to reach No 1 in the ATP’s world rankings. Having split the opening two sets, both players emerged from off-court bathroom breaks to a best-of-three match for a place in the final, but Tiafoe’s first extended mental letdown of the night cost him dearly as he was immediately broken at love to open the third. Already the youngest men’s grand slam semi-finalist since Nadal’s breakthrough run through the 2005 French Open, Alcaraz becomes only the second teenager to reach a US Open men’s final in the professional era after Pete Sampras in 1990. “I thought it is a new match in the fifth set. After a trade of holds to open the second, Alcaraz faced another gut-check moment serving at 30-all, when Tiafoe capped another hyperkinetic rally with a deft backhand volley winner for break point. Tiafoe saved it with a blistering 136mph service winner, but the Spaniard seized on his second chance moments later when Tiafoe overcooked a forehand from the baseline. He broke Alcaraz for the first time all night in the following game to get back on serve, fell behind a break again in the very next game, then broke once more to send the crowd into deafening roars. For more than four hours Alcaraz and Tiafoe traded hellfire in physical baseline rallies and tested their ample movement to the limit in dazzling cat-and-mouse exchanges that covered every inch of the court. Then it was Alcaraz’s turn to wriggle, only to escape from a 4-5, 30-40 bind by showing a glimpse of the tactical intelligence and sophisticated point construction he’s relied on throughout his breakthrough season. I came here to win the US Open and I feel I let everybody down.

US Open, Men's Singles Semi-final 2 Highlights: Carlos Alcaraz will face Casper Ruud in the final match.

- 07:50 (IST)US Open Live: Great work from Tiafoe!Frances Tiafoe has bounced back in the match. Like us on [Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robo.ndtv.cricket&hl=en)or [iOS](https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/ndtv-cricket/id418320331?mt=8). - 08:19 (IST)US Open Live: Alcaraz close to victoryCarlos Alcaraz is leading 5-4 in the fourth set. He is 5-4 ahead of Carlos Alcaraz in the first set. He leads 2-1 in the ongoing second set. He has won after losing four consecutive games in the set. He trails Alcaraz 3-5 currently. Alcaraz lost 6-7 (5/7) in the fourth set before making a sensational comeback and sealing the final set 6-3 against Frances Tiafoe. - 06:40 (IST)US Open Live: Alcaraz breaks TiafoeCarlos Alcaraz has broken the serve of Frances Tiafoe to lead 4-2 in the second set. The score is 5 all. Tiafoe won the first set against Carlos Alcaraz 7-6 (8-6) before the latter could bounce back and seal two consecutive sets with 6-3, 6-1 wins. - 08:42 (IST)US Open Live: Tiafoe survives!Frances Tiafoe has won the fourth set to take the match to the deciding set.