Spain’s 19-year-old tennis star Carlos Alcaraz is thru to the ultimate of the lads’s singles of the US Open in New York.
Carlos Alcaraz, the 19-year-old Spanish sensation is thru to the ultimate of the US Open tennis match in New York. He defeated America’s Frances Tiafoe on Friday, September 9, to succeed in his first-ever Grand Slam closing.
BELIEVE IT CARLITOS. YOU’RE A GRAND SLAM FINALIST. @carlosalcaraz | @usopen | #USOpen
— ATP Tour (@atptour) September 10, 2022
THE ALCARAZ SHOW CONTINUES 🇪🇸@carlosalcaraz has a 6-7. 6-3, 6-1, 6-7, 6-3 victory over Frances Tiafoe to succeed in his FIRST Grand Slam closing 🔥@usopen | #USOpen pic.twitter.com/GWHkU6u7Pq
— ATP Tour (@atptour) September 10, 2022
Ought to he win the ultimate as we speak, Sunday, September 11, then the teenage sensation from Murcia in Spain will turn out to be the youngest No1-ranked ATP in historical past. No3 seed Alcaraz would even be the youngest participant to win a males’s singles main since 2005, when his compatriot, the legendary Rafael Nadal, was victorious.
Alcaraz is racking up information so early in his profession. He’s already the youngest semi-finalist within the historical past of the US Open since Pete Sampras. The legendary American was additionally aged simply 19 when he went on to win the ultimate in 1990. Rafa Nadal’s 17-year report of being the youngest males’s semi-finalist in a Grand Slam occasion has additionally now been damaged by Alcaraz.
It stays to be seen how his vitality ranges reply after enjoying a complete of 13 hours and 28 minutes of aggressive tennis in solely three matches to succeed in this closing. Friday’s quarter-final victory towards Jannik Sinner created one other US Open report, because the longest-ever, lasting a marathon 5 hours.
“That is my first time. I’m going to offer every little thing that I’ve. I’ve yet one more match to go towards a participant who’s unbelievable”, commented the younger Spaniard after his semi-final win.
His opponent in as we speak’s closing within the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York’s Flushing Meadows is Norway’s world No7 ranked, 23-year-old Casper Ruud. The Norwegian additionally has information in his sight, making it an fascinating battle.
INTO THE #USOPEN FINAL 🔥@CasperRuud98 | @usopen
— ATP Tour (@atptour) September 9, 2022
If he wins then he would make an unprecedented leap from seventh on this planet to the highest spot, one thing that has by no means been achieved since information started again in 1973. He would even be the primary Norwegian to say that place in males’s tennis.
This closing is the primary Grand Slam males’s singles closing to ever function two gamers who each take the No1 spot by profitable.
Ruud got here by means of his semi-final in 4 units towards the 26-year-old Russian-Armenian Karen Khachanov, however with out enduring any prolonged matches like Alcaraz has been concerned in. Solely one in all his six matches on the way in which to the ultimate has gone to a fifth and closing set. In 4 earlier appearances within the US Open, the proficient Norwegian has by no means progressed past the third spherical.
His final Grand Slam closing was in Could on the French Open the place he suffered a straight units defeat to Rafa Nadal at Roland Garros in Paris.
These two gamers have met on two earlier events, with the Spaniard profitable in straight units each instances. “In fact, there might be nerves and we’ll each really feel it. I hope it is going to be a superb match. He has crushed me a few instances and I’ll search my revenge”, stated an enthusiastic Ruud.
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