Daniil Medvedev ousts U.S. Open defending champion Carlos Alcaraz to achieve ultimate. Djokovic awaits

NEW YORK — Daniil Medvedev ended Carlos Alcaraz’s reign because the U.S. Open champion by eliminating him within the semifinals 7-6 (3), 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 on Friday evening to arrange a rematch within the ultimate towards Novak Djokovic.

The No. 3-seeded Medvedev received his lone main title at Flushing Meadows in 2021 by defeating 23-time Slam winner Djokovic in that 12 months’s ultimate.

That prevented Djokovic from finishing what would have been the primary calendar-year Grand Slam in males’s tennis since 1969.

The top-seeded Alcaraz – a 20-year-old from Spain who will relinquish the No. 1 rating to Djokovic it doesn’t matter what occurs on Sunday – had been attempting to grow to be the primary man to say consecutive championships in New York since Roger Federer received 5 in a row from 2004-08.

Ever since earlier than the beginning of those two weeks, of us had been anticipating a Djokovic vs. Alcaraz ultimate. That would have been a rematch of the trophy-determining match at Wimbledon in July, when Alcaraz edged Djokovic in 5 units.

Instead, it will likely be Medvedev, a 27-year-old from Russia, who can be showing in his third U.S. Open ultimate in 5 years and his fifth main title match in all.

He misplaced to Rafael Nadal in New York in 2019, and to Djokovic on the Australian Open in 2021 and 2022.

“The challenge is that you play a guy that won 23 Grand Slams, and I have only one,” Medvedev stated, waiting for taking over Djokovic. “When I beat him here, I managed to play better than myself, so I need to do it again. There is no other way.”

Medvedev had misplaced to Alcaraz twice this season, together with within the Wimbledon semifinals. Those head-to-head outcomes left Medevev involved.