Felix Auger Aliasime returned to the US Open semi-finals four years after his first appearance with a 4-6, 7-6 (7), 7-5, 7-6 (4) victory at the 8th Alex de Minaurus on Wednesday.
Augar Aliasime, a 25-year-old Canadian, was a semi-finalist for the Flushing Meadows in 2021.
No. 3 Alexander Zverev, No. By beating 15 Andrey Rublev, and now De Minaur, this is the first time Auger-Aliasime has defeated multiple ATP top 20 players in the same major.
He is guaranteed to face another Friday in the semi-finals – World No. 1 Janik Thinner or Lorenzo Musetti in the 10th, playing the All-Italian quarterfinals in the match of the second night session at Arthur Ash Stadium.
The quarterfinal between Auger Ariasime and De Minaur was 4 hours and 10 minutes, the longest four-set match of this year’s tournament. The second set alone took 87 minutes, and the longest set was played on the boys’ side.
Auger Ariasime won his 25th match on hard court this season, finishing fourth on the men’s tour. He also improved to 6-0 in a tiebreak at this year’s US Open, tied for the most won on his way to the semifinals since the tiebreak was introduced in the 1970 tournament.
De Minaur, a 26-year-old Australian, fell 0-5 in the major quarter final. The only men in an open era with worse records in the quarterfinals of the slam are Rublev (0-10) and Tommy Robredo (0-7). Guy Forge was 0-5 for his career.
In 2005 he remained the last Australian man to make the US an open semifinal.
ESPN research contributed to this report.
