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Pablo Carreno Busta is up to the baseline and will serve first.
Let’s do this. pic.twitter.com/WPxmMLHxI5
“9-11 We Remember” on cloth covering seats at Arthur Ashe Stadium.#USOpen men’s semifinals about to begin. pic.twitter.com/X3Bl4UMj5k
The players have arrived on Arthur Ashe Stadium. Alexander Zverev won the coin toss and elected to receive first.
As the men’s semis begin, the French players quarantined in New York since the first week are finally free to leave.
Les Français en quarantaine dans leur chambre d’hôtel à Long Island peuvent enfin quitter New York pic.twitter.com/2ImvinTtlM
There isn’t too much data on this match-up. Their only previous meeting came in the semi-finals of the Miami ATP Masters 1000, which Zverev won 7-6(4) 6-2. Zverev is the clear favourite and if he is serving bombs, taking on his forehand and playing confident, aggressive tennis, he will win. It may not even be close.
But that Zverev was not present in the quarterfinal and there have been many instances over the past 18 months where that also hasn’t been the case. When he gets tight, Zverev’s second serve and forehand are always the first shots to go.
Hello! Welcome to tonight’s coverage of the men’s US Open semi-finals. After a brilliant Thursday evening of women’s semis, in which Naomi Osaka and Victoria Azarenka survived two excellent matches to reach the final, Pablo Carreno Busta and Alexander Zverev will be hoping to do the same tonight.
This has been some tournament for Carreno Busta, who certainly did not seem to be on the cusp of the best result of his career in the first round when he fell down two sets to one against No 86 Yasutaka Uchiyama. Instead, he regrouped and eventually won 8 sets in a row to reach the fourth round.
