2023-09-04 20:42:06
Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz is in the quarterfinals of the US Open. The top seeded Spaniard prevailed once morest the Italian surprise man Matteo Arnaldi in three sets with 6: 3, 6: 3, 6: 4 and now meets the winner of the encounter between Alexander Zverev and Jannik Sinner. Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova also made it to the quarterfinals. The Czech finished the run of the American Peyton Stearns and won 6:7(3),6:3,6:2.
“The intensity was high from the first to the last point. I played a very solid match, I played my game,” said Alcaraz. He played confidently once morest Arnaldo from the start and only conceded a break in the early stages of the third set with the roof closed at Arthur Ashe Stadium. The only 20-year-old Spaniard is in the quarter-finals in New York for the third time in a row. At that age, only Andre Agassi did that before him from 1988 to 1990.
Andrei Rublew followed suit with a 6:3,3:6,6:3,6:4 once morest the British Jack Draper. The eighth-seeded Russian might meet his compatriot Daniil Medvedev in the quarter-finals, who played once morest Australian Alex de Minaur on Tuesday night.
Vondrousova meets American Madison Keys in the round of the top eight players. The former finalist surprisingly won the US duel with world number three Jessica Pegula in just 61 minutes with 6:1.6:3. The 28-year-old Keys had lost the American final once morest Sloane Stephens in Flushing Meadows in 2017, but had always failed in the third round at the latest in the past three years. Pegula was once once more unable to confirm her good form.
Vondrousova, on the other hand, lived up to expectations following triumphing at the classic grass field in Wimbledon. “I didn’t expect that following Wimbledon, there was a lot of pressure,” said the 24-year-old following her success regarding outsider Stearns.
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