Tiebreakers in the second and fourth sets propelled Canadian F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime to a four-plus-hour victory over Australia’s Alex de Minaur on Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the US Open.<\/p>\n
Knocking off a top-10 seed for second time in the tournament, Auger-Aliassime once again bounced back from a first-set defeat, this time to pull off a 4-6, 7-6(7), 7-5, 7-6(4) win.<\/p>\n
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Auger-Aliassime, 25, and the former world No. 6, previously upset Germany’s Alexander Zverev, the No. 3 seed, in the third round 4-6, 7-6(7), 6-4, 6-4.<\/p>\n
This is Auger-Aliassime’s second time reaching the US Open semifinals after a run in 2021, when he lost to eventual champion Daniil Medvedev. This is also only the third time since 2022 that Auger-Aliassime has advanced beyond the second round in a Grand Slam tournament.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old de Minaur, meanwhile, is still searching for his first semifinal appearance in a major. He’s reached six such quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime recorded almost three times as many aces (22) as de Minaur (8). Auger-Aliassime also hit 51 winners, 22 more than de Minaur. Those stats, however, don’t tell the full story of a tightly contested match that featured an 87-minute second set, the longest set on the men’s side of this year’s US Open. The match twisted and turned, particularly in the fourth set when de Minaur broke Auger-Aliassime in the fourth game, only to be broken on four straight points in the ninth game.<\/p>\n
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That misstep allowed Auger-Aliassime to eventually force a tiebreak, which included four double faults: two from Auger-Aliassime and two from de Minaur.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime ultimately pulled away, punching his ticket to the semifinals, where he’ll face the winner of Wednesday night’s match between Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti and Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n
No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and No. 7 Novak Djokovic<\/a> will meet in Friday’s other semifinal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiebreakers in the second and fourth sets propelled Canadian F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime to a four-plus-hour victory over Australia’s Alex…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":198045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[60098,3098,109850,1466,10642,30062,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-198044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alex-de-minaur","9":"tag-alexander-zverev","10":"tag-auger-aliassime","11":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","12":"tag-felix-auger-aliassime","13":"tag-quarterfinals","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115142921112969038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}