People Frances Tiafoe and Taylor Fritz will conflict in a single half of the semifinals of the lads’s singles bracket on the 2024 US Open. The ultimate Grand Slam of the 12 months guarantees to characteristic an thrilling end, however whoever makes it via that semifinal can have their fingers full besting the winner of the opposite matchup, between Jack Draper and Jannik Sinner.
Tiafoe and Fritz made it via their quarterfinal matches on Tuesday, whereas No. 25 Draper and No. 1 Sinner took down Alex de Minaur and Daniil Medvedev, respectively, on Wednesday. Tiafoe, the twentieth seed, and Fritz, the twelfth seed, will battle it out on Friday for the best to face the winner of that different bout.
Relying on the outcome, they might be favored — over Draper — or vital underdogs to Sinner. Sinner is the highest seed of the match and wanted 4 units to take down Medvedev within the final quarterfinal match, however remains to be the favored choose to win all of it.
Sinner, 23, had few troubles within the first set, preventing off two break factors whereas changing on two of his three to take it, 6-2. However Medvedev roared again to life within the second, getting out to a 5-0 lead, together with preventing off a break try by Sinner by changing a pair of aces to win the fifth sport. The third flipped again round to Sinner, who gained on 82 % of his first serves. Issues had been nearer within the fourth, however Medvedev slowly ran out of fuel as Sinner stored up the strain.
In the long run, Sinner took a 6-2, 1-6, 6-1, 6-4 victory, his second main win over Medvedev this season. Sinner gained his first Grand Slam title on the Australian Open earlier this 12 months (in opposition to Medvedev), and made a career-best semifinals look on the French Open.
Draper, the twenty fifth seed, took an upset victory over the Tenth-seeded Alex de Minaur within the quarterfinals, 6-3, 7-5, 6-2. He was answerable for that match from the onset, and cruised to an enormous win in opposition to his first seeded opponent of the match. Draper is having fun with his highest singles rating but and is about to make his first ever look in a Grand Slam semifinal, making it to the second rounds of the Australian Open, French Open, and Wimbledon earlier this 12 months.
Although Tiafoe has performed sturdy tennis to date, Fritz has had the extra spectacular run via the quarterfinals. He took down his first three opponents in straight units, after which confronted two matches the place he was the underdog: in opposition to the eighth-seeded Casper Ruud and the fourth-seeded Alexander Zverev. Fritz wanted 4 units to beat each, however he moved previous Ruud, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2, and Zverev, 7-6(2), 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(3) to achieve his first ever Grand Slam semifinal.
Fritz, 26, has additionally had his greatest end at every of the 4 Grand Slams this 12 months already. His quarterfinal appearances on the Australian Open and Wimbledon, alongside along with his fourth-round end on the French Open and this semifinals look, make up his greatest 12 months but in main tournaments. He additionally holds a 6-1 edge over Tiafoe of their head-to-head historical past.
Tiafoe hasn’t had as a lot success, however this semifinal equals his greatest Slam efficiency after making it right here in 2022. He was almost completed when he dropped two units to No. 13 Ben Shelton, however in the end took that match in 5 units to advance to the Spherical of 16. He’s coming off a quarterfinals win over No. 9 Grigor Dimitrov, who sustained an damage and needed to drop out after dropping two of the primary three units.
The lads’s semifinals are set for Friday, Sept. 6. They’ll be performed at Arthur Ashe Stadium after a relaxation day and whereas the ladies’s semifinals happen on Thursday. The primary of two males’s matchups ought to begin round 3 p.m. ET, with the latter match set for 7 p.m. below the lights.
Tv and streaming protection is supplied by ESPN and ESPN Plus, and the semifinals can be stay on the previous. Under, you’ll find the schedule for the lads’s semifinals and beneath that, a have a look at every competitor’s path via the match to the penultimate spherical.
US Open tennis males’s semifinals
No. 12 Taylor Fritz vs. No. 20 Frances Tiafoe (3 p.m. ET approx.)
No. 1 Jannik Sinner vs. No. 25 Jack Draper (7 p.m. ET approx.)
No. 12 Taylor Fritz’s path to the semifinal
def. Camilo Ugo Carabelli 7-5, 6-1, 6-2
def. Matteo Berrettini, 6-3, 7-6(1), 6-1
def. Francisco Comesana, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2
def. No. 8 Casper Ruud, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2
def. No. 4 Alexander Zverev, 7-6(2), 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(3)
No. 20 Frances Tiafoe’s path to the semifinal
def. Aleksandar Kovacevic, 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5
def. Alexander Shevchenko, 6-4, 6-1, 0-1
def. No. 13 Ben Shelton, 4-6, 7-5, 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-3
def. No. 28 Alexei Popyrin, 6-4, 7-6(3), 2-6, 6-3
def. No. 9 Grigor Dimitrov, 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-3, 4-1 (ret.)
No. 25 Jack Draper’s path to the semifinal
def. Zhizhen Zhang, 6-3, 6-0, 4-0 (ret.)
def. Facundo Diaz Acosta, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2
def. Botic van de Zandschulp , 6-3, 6-4, 6-2
def. Tomas Machac, 6-3, 6-1, 6-2
def. No. 10 Alex de Minaur, 6-3, 7-5, 6-2
No. 1 Jannik Sinner’s path to the semifinal
def. Mackenzie McDonald, 2-6, 6-2, 6-1, 6-2
def. Alex Michelsen, 6-4, 6-0, 6-2
def. Christopher O’Connell, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2
def. No. 14 Tommy Paul, 7-6(3), 7-6(5), 6-1
def. No. 5 Daniil Medvedev, 6-2, 1-6, 6-1, 6-4
