Introduction: Francis Tiafoe

a spot in a Grand Slam title
game for the first time in 18 years.
Tiafoe, the 20th seed, made it to the last

four at Flushing Meadows for the first
time in three years after his quarter-final
opponent Grigor Dimitrov retired with

an injury in the fourth set. Tiafoe led 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 4-1, but as midnight approached Dimitrov retreated, the highlight of a not always good match.

“It’s not the way I want to go,”

“It’s not the way I want to go,” Tiafoe said, “but it feels good to win.” The semi-finals are here again. Incredible.”

A look at the unequal play of both: Dimitrov saved three set points in the tie 6-3. First, he made a double mistake. The second time he made another double fault. In the third round, Tiafoe double-faulted and lost the set.

A few hours ago Fritz was making very satisfactory progress. Fritz rose to the top over the years and eventually became the first American in tennis to achieve a breakthrough in all four majors, defeating fourth-ranked Alexander Zverev 7-6(2), 3-6, 6-4, He lost by 7. – 6 (3) reached a major semi-final for the first time.

“And the game itself, it’s not like you’re in the quarterfinals and you’re playing against [Rafael Nadal] and you’re thinking about flying. It’s just reality. Now it’s completely different. He is undefeated. There is no such thing.” “Especially in the second half of the season, the players are a little more mature and no longer as fresh and vulnerable, so it’s very exciting.”

The ninth-seeded Dimitrov managed

The ninth-seeded Dimitrov managed five sets in the fourth round and strained his left thigh muscles towards the end of the third set against Tiafoe, switching wildly between points and hitting much slower than at the start. It seemed to be getting weaker. The evening after this sentence, Dimitrov was visited by his coach and went to the locker room for treatment.

He returned to the court at the start of the fourth set, but was unable to move properly and was eventually eliminated. Dimitrov, a 33-year-old Bulgarian and three-time semi-finalist at major tournaments, did not want to say afterwards exactly what went wrong, only that it was a pile-up.

“It’s a disappointing moment for me,” Dimitrov said. “I have a few things to think about.”

The remaining men’s quarterfinals will be played on Wednesday: No. 1 Jannik Sinner vs. Daniil Medvedev is 5th, Jack Draper and 10th Alex De Minaur.