VIDEO Alcaraz’s epic battle with Sinner: Tennis commercial and the second longest match in history! – Športky.sk

Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz advanced to the semifinals of the US Open Source: SITA/AP/Frank Franklin II NEW YORK – Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz will play the semifinals at a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in his career. In the quarterfinals of the singles at the US Open, he won in the position of the tournament three over the eleventh-seeded Italian Jannik Sinner after a five-set drama 6:3, 6:7 (7), 6:7 (0), 7:5 and 6:3. In the fight for the final, his opponent will be home American Frances Tiafoe. The duel lasted 5:15 and was the second longest in US Open history. The record is held by the semi-final match between Stefan Edberg and Michael Chang from 1992 (5:26 h). Alcaraz and Sinner’s match ended ten minutes before three o’clock at night local time, which was the longest “night session” in the history of the event. Until now, the last duel ended at 2:26 a.m. at the latest. Un-believable. @carlosalcaraz we have no words. pic.twitter.com/3fflDLRiUb — US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 8, 2022 Alcaraz saved one match point from his opponent in the fourth set, but in the end he was able to turn the match in his favor and still hopes to replace Daniil Medvedev as the world number one after the tournament units. In addition to him, another semi-finalist from Norway, Casper Ruud, has a chance to reach the top of the ranking. Alcaraz won the first set when he took the opponent’s serve twice from 3:3, but in the next two acts he failed in the tiebreaks. In the second set, the Spaniard did not use five set points. In the fourth, Sinner won a 2:0 lead right from the start and was close to advancing to his first Grand Slam semi-final when he led 5:3 and had a match point in the tenth game. The comparison is real. pic.twitter.com/8FBzdXziBJ — US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 8, 2022 But Alcaraz battled back, turning from 3-5 down with four straight games to 7-5 and forcing the decider. Although the Spaniard was the first to lose his serve in the fifth game at a tie, he finally did not let his opponent win a single game from the score of 2:3 and after a great fight he became one of the elite quartet. He is thus the youngest semifinalist at the US Open since 1990, when Pete Sampras won the title at Flushing Meadows as a 19-year-old. The second semi-final pair consists of Norwegian Casper Ruud and Russian Karen Chačanov. men – singles – quarterfinals:
Carlos Alcaraz (Sp.-3) – Jannik Sinner (Italy-11) 6:3, 6:7 (7), 6:7 (0), 7:5, 6:3 Join the competition on our Instagram Photo Gallery to the article Number of photos: 24 Author: © Twitter list/US Open Tennis Source: TASR