Wednesday, Tiafoe was rather prescient when asked about Alcaraz and Sinner. 'The hope is the last thing that you lose.'Īfter his much more mundane, three-set victory over Andrey Rublev in a quarterfinal that ended at about 4:45 p.m.

'I always say you have to believe in yourself all the time,' Alcaraz said. Not only did this one run late, it ran long: Only a 5-hour, 26-minute match between Stefan Edberg and Michael Chang in 1992 took more time at the US Open. and easily surpassed the previous mark for latest time of finish at the US Open, which had been 2:26 a.m., shared by three matches. This match began Wednesday evening at about 9:35 p.m. The other men's semifinal that day is No. 22 Frances Tiafoe of the United States on Friday. 1 in the rankings next week, will face No. Alcaraz, who has a chance to move up to No. Tuesday, reached his first Grand Slam semifinal and is the youngest man to get that far at the US Open since Pete Sampras won the title at 19 in 1990. A handshake at the net would not suffice.Īlcaraz, whose five-set victory over 2014 US Open champion Marin Cilic ended at 2:23 a.m. When the 382nd, and final, point was over, Sinner and Alcaraz hugged each other. 'But tomorrow, I will wake up - or today, I will wake up - trying to somehow only the positives.' 'This one will hurt for quite a while,' said No. The win was Sinner's second against Alcaraz in four weeks, after the Italian was a four-set winner in the pair's fourth-round clash at Wimbledon.He also used words such as 'unbelievable' and 'amazing.' No hyperbole there. So, I’m very happy to be finally lifting a trophy this year, but I know that I still have a lot of things to improve… It’s all about the process.” “I have a tough year until now, I had some unfortunate moments, but we worked every time to play better, to be a better player, to be a better person.

“I am obviously very happy,” said Sinner after the match. Yet the Italian began to dictate the baseline exchanges and saved nine from nine break points to complete a two-hour, 26-minute victory. The second seed had to be at his resilient best against Alcaraz, especially after the Spaniard had clinched a tight opening set in a tie-break. Sinner has been one of the most consistent players on Tour this season and had reached six tour-level quarter-finals in 2022 prior to the clay-court ATP 250 event this week in Umag. The Italian prevailed in a heavyweight #NextGenATP championship match clash against Carlos Alcaraz 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-1 victory at the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag on Sunday. It may have been a long time coming, but Jannik Sinner has an ATP Tour title in 2022.

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