CLeverage, strong nerves and uncontrollable power: Alexander Zverev He has entered the semifinals of the US Open, has shown his strength, and seems to be ready for a decisive duel for the title. The 24-year-old top tennis player from Hamburg defeated South African Lloyd Harris 7:6 (8:6), 6:3, 6:4 on Wednesday after initial problems, and was allowed to continue the appointment. One month after the Olympic gold medal, he hopes to win his first Grand Slam championship.
Last year’s finalist passed his last hurdle before possibly fighting the world’s number one “Dream Duel” Novak DjokovicHe won all three Grand Slam titles this year in Melbourne, Paris and Wimbledon, and hopes to be the first since Rod Laver in 1969 to complete a calendar Grand Slam in New York Professional players.
The 34-year-old Serb’s quarterfinals remake the Wimbledon final against Italy Matteo Berettini, Originally scheduled for Thursday night (CEST), Zverev is happy to see the game going on. Because the German No. 1 had another saying: If you want to win the championship, you have to beat me first. Including winning the gold medal in Tokyo and winning the Cincinnati Masters, the fourth-ranked man in the world has now won 16 consecutive games.
Harris caused quite a stir before the duel with Zverev. He scored against Dennis Shapovalov, who is seventh on the seed list, and the powerful American Riley Opelka. Obvious success. Zverev’s team assessed that services that South Africans are difficult to read are particularly dangerous and should be confirmed initially.
The first sentence is very compact. “Harris played well and Sasha obviously had a problem. It was difficult to adapt to his own way,” said Misha Zverev of Eurosport. Time and time again, the top German player was forced to the outside by his opponents, gave up his serve, and needed to break serve again to reach the tiebreaker. Zverev then blocked a fixed ball and won the pass himself.
There are discussions about the decisive assembly. Zverev has repeatedly complained that the players displayed on the big screen are annoying. For Harris, the situation was not easy, he threw a bottle on the hard court after losing the game, and then ran into problems in sticking to it.
Zverev quickly took the serve from his opponent and convincingly reached the end of the round. With a strong first serve shooting rate, he always puts pressure on Harris, who can’t bear it. Also in the third set, Zverev made it very clear that he had more plans in the game.
In the women’s category, British qualifier Emma Raducanu continued her sensational victory and reached the semi-finals for the first time. The 18-year-old teenager defeated the 6-year-old Olympic champion Belinda Bencic from Switzerland 6:3, 6:4 in an 80-minute match. In his debut in the last Grand Slam tournament of the year, Radukanu will now face the champions of Czech player Carolina Pliskova and Greek player Maria Sakari.
At the beginning, Radukanu gave up her serve in the first game. The player ranked 150th in the world regained his vitality on the big stage at Arthur Ashe Stadium. But soon, it only took 36 minutes to get the first set. Raducanu also showed a clear performance in the second round, and has not lost a set in this US Open.
She is the third semi-finalist outside the top 100 at the US Open. Before her, only Belgian Kim Cristal had a comeback victory in 2009 and the American legend Billy Jean King in 1979 had succeeded. At Wimbledon, Radukanu also unexpectedly reached the top 16 this year, but had to give up at the time.
