MOSCOW, Sep 8 Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz reached the semi-finals of the US Open (US Open), the final Grand Slam tournament of the season, held on hard courts in New York. In the 1/4 final meeting, the third racket of the tournament Alcaraz beat Italian tennis player Yannick Sinner, who received the 11th seed, with a score of 6: 3, 6:7 (7:9), 6:7 (0:7), 7:5, 6:3. Tennis players spent 5 hours and 14 minutes on the court, this is the longest meeting of the current tournament draw. In addition, the match set a US Open record, it ended at 02:50 local time, never in the history of the tournament did the meeting end so late. in the fifth batch. The Spaniard had five set points in the second set, but Sinner won on a tie-break. In total, both tennis players won 18 games on the opponent's serve. In the semi-finals of the US Open, Alcaraz will play with American Francis Tiafoe (22-seed), who previously defeated Russian tennis player Andrei Rublev (9) — 7:6 (7:3) , 7:6 (7:0), 6:4.19-year-old Alcaraz reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in his career. Prior to that, he stopped at the 1/4 finals at the US Open — 2021 and the French Open — 2022.
