Carlos Alcaraz
That was the kind of tennis the 29-year-old needed to produce just to make the match competitive against the defending champion. Sunday was the pair’s ninth meeting, with Alcaraz now leading the head-to-head 7-2. 21, had won two of their first three meetings back in 2022-23, but on Sunday he admitted he was nowhere near the level required. The two-time US Open semifinalist had lost six of his previous seven meetings with Medvedev, but was the sharper and more focused of the two through the two-hour, 57-minute contest.
NEW YORK CITY: There was a moment early in the US Open fourth-round match when Tommy Paul was pulled wide, he lunged forward and, out of nowhere, slammed a forehand winner around the post, landing it behind a stunned Carlos Alcaraz. The crowd gasped, and a flicker of a smile crossed Paul’s face. Paul, the world No. Tiafoe will face compatriot Alex Michelsen in the last-eight.
3, returning from a four-month injury-enforced break, advanced to the quarter-finals with a statement 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 win, having dropped just one set across four matches. The 23-year-old moved past Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 and is into his sixth major quarter-final and his second at Flushing Meadows, where he made the semi-finals in 2023. The 28-year-old world No. 12, roared on by the home crowd, was pumped up for his clash on Louis Armstrong Stadium as he reached the quarter-finals in New York for the fourth time.
The world No. Alcaraz will play the eighth-seeded American Ben Shelton next in the last-eight on Tuesday.