Nonetheless no indication that we’re getting near this match.
So how is everybody at the moment?
We now have not but seen participant introductions. Perhaps Alcaraz is taking a well-deserved nap?
Who’s No. 1?
Present No. 1 Daniil Medvedev surrendered the highest place when he misplaced within the spherical of 16 to Nick Kyrgios. No. 2 Alexander Zverev isn’t competing in New York due to an damage. We all know Rafael Nadal is not going to be returning to the highest spot within the rankings, due to Tiafoe’s win over the 36-year-old Spaniard within the spherical of 16 right here.
If Alcaraz wins out, he’ll be the youngest ever to be No. 1. If he loses right here, Casper Ruud would be the first Norwegian to prime the rankings. (These factoids are from the ATP Tour itself.)
Ruud defeated Karen Khachanov this afternoon in a tidy three-hour match to succeed in the ultimate, so if Alcaraz wins tonight, it’ll be a kind of uncommon head-to-head matchups to determine the king of the mountain.
Prepared for a matchup of an unstoppable drive vs. a man who has spent extra time on the courtroom this week than a number of us have at work?
Frances Tiafoe of the USA! USA! USA! (trademark Guardian commentators) brings his uninhibited enthusiasm to Arthur Ashe Stadium once more Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz, who obtained right here by successful a quarter-final match that lasted 5 hours and quarter-hour. That was his second straight five-setter, following a Spherical of 16 match that lasted almost 4 hours.
Alcaraz, a rising star at age 19, is ranked fourth on this planet. Tiafoe is twenty sixth. However Tiafoe may have house courtroom and has gained the one matchup between the 2 – a 2021 encounter on clay in Barcelona.
Beau will likely be right here shortly. Within the meantime right here’s Tumaini Carayol’s look again at Carlos Alcaraz’s epic quarter-final win over Jannik Sinner.