The boys’s semifinals are set for the lads’s singles bracket of tennis on the 2024 Paris Olympics. After a pair of big upsets within the quarterfinals, the ultimate 4 now consists of high seed Novak Djokovic of Serbia, No. 11 Lorenzo Musetti of Italy, No. 13 Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada, and No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz of Spain.
Musetti and Auger-Aliassime are each right here after main upsets over No. 3 Alexander Zverev and No. 6 Casper Ruud, respectively. The previous fell to the Italian in straight units on Thursday at Roland Garros, the house of the French Open in Paris, 7-5, 7-5. The latter pushed Auger-Aliassime to 3 units, however in the end fell to the 23-year-old Canadian, 6-4, 6-7(8), 6-3.
Auger-Aliassime was already the primary Canadian participant to make it to the quarterfinals of the singles bracket on the Olympics, and now he’s by way of to the semifinals as effectively. He practically took down Ruud in straight units, however he couldn’t convert on match level makes an attempt within the second set. He’ll go on to face Alcaraz within the semifinals.
Alcaraz is coming off a dominant win over the past remaining American within the singles bracket, ninth seed Tommy Paul. Alcaraz, the favourite going into this event, dealt with Paul in straight units, 6-3, 7-6(7). He’ll be extraordinarily robust to beat for Auger-Aliassime, although the 2 have cut up six profession conferences, with Alcaraz taking their solely earlier outing on clay.
Musetti, 22, defeated the defending 2020 Olympics champion in Zverev, who hoped to turn out to be simply the second man in historical past to win back-to-back Olympic singles gold medals. Musetti managed to interrupt Zverev’s very first service recreation, and he by no means let off the stress en path to his victory.
He’ll advance to face Djokovic, who remains to be looking for his first ever Olympic gold medal. Djokovic has extra Grand Slam singles titles than anyone else with 24, and has gained onf the clay of Roland Garros 3 times, most just lately in 2023. Accidents have plagued his play of late, and he hasn’t taken any of the Grand Slams in 2024, the primary time since 2017 that has occurred.
Three of those remaining 4 will wind up with a singles medal in Paris, with the 2 losers of those semifinal matches going through off in a bronze medal matchup. Many picked a Djokovic vs. Alcaraz remaining going into this event, and that’s definitely how issues might find yourself, however each gamers must be on upset watch after their opponents toppled the likes of Zverev and Ruud.
The boys’s singles semifinals are set for Friday, Aug. 2. They’ll be viewable reside on Peacock and NBCOlympics.com, with the primary of the 2 matchups being the showdown between Alcaraz and Auger-Aliassime within the morning. They’re set to play on Courtroom Philippe-Chatrier vivid and early, presently set for about 7:30 a.m. ET. After that, Djokovic and Musetti will face off on the identical court docket within the afternoon, starting at 1 p.m.
2024 Paris Olympic tennis males’s singles semifinals
No. 13 Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz (6-7:30 a.m. ET approx.)
No. 1 Novak Djokovic vs. No. 11 Lorenzo Musetti (1 p.m. ET approx.)
