NEW YORK (USA) (ITALPRESS) – Between the night and morning of New York, Carlos Alcaraz surrenders to Ben Shelton in the quarterfinals of the Us Open 2026. The Spanish, defending champion and returning four months after the injury to the right arm, gives the tie-break of the fifth set after four hours and 28 minutes of play and almost four in the morning (local time): 6-7(5) 6-1 6-3 1-6 7-6(8) the score in favor of Shelton, who has the best in the final head with the number three in the world. A few stomach and wrist problems between the fourth and fifth set for Alcaraz, which ends in the quarters its excellent Flushing Meadows race and returns to lose a Slam match in the fifth set after more than four years: the score was 15 wins and 1 defeat, remedied against Matteo Berrettini at the Australian Open 2026.
Shelton advances in the semifinals, where he will see it with Frances Tiafoe in a very hot star derby and stripes. The 28-year-old of Hyattsville, serial number 11, is the creator of a clamorous comeback: under two sets and then in disadvantage 0-3 in the fifth, manages to tick it for 5-7 3-6 7-5 6-3 7-6(6) after four hours and 38 minutes of battle. Lots of regrets for Michelsen, who also went to serve in the third set for the match on 5-4. Tiafoe had already reached Flushing Meadows in 2022 and 2024.
PEGULA BATTE NAVARRO E VA IN SEMIFINALE
It will be Jessica Pegula to face Aryna Sabalenka in one of the two semifinals of Us Open to the female. The 32-year-old American, third series and finalist in 2024 – when he was defeated by the current number one in the world – he won the star derby and strips with Emma Navarro, number 26 of the board, for 3-6 6-4 6-3 after two hours and 21 minutes of play. Fourth semi-final in a Slam for Pegula, the second season after the Australian Open in the beginning of the year.
BOLELLI-VAVASSORI AI QUARTI NEL DOPPIO
Head, grit, battle spirit and a great tennis. After more than three hours of battle Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori conquered for the first time together a place in the quarterfinals of the US Open. In the eighths, they defeated 4-6 7-6(5) 7-6(8) Austin Krajicek and Nikola Mektic who were forward 5-2 to the tie-break of the second set and a break at the beginning of the third. “These are the matches that remind you,” commented Supertennis on the two blues. And Bolelli adds: “It was a furious struggle.” On the Italian night, in the last match on Arthur Ashe, the second of the evening session, they will return to the field against Christian Harrison and Neal Skupski.
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