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Hiya and welcome to Arthur Ashe Stadium for tonight’s match between Carlos Alcaraz and Li Tu. We’re courtside contained in the world’s largest tennis stadium because the French Open and Wimbledon champion launches his bid for a second US Open title towards a 28-year-old Australian qualifier searching for his first man-draw win at a grand slam and first victory over an opponent ranked within the ATP’s prime 50.
Alcaraz seems to increase a 14-match win streak at main tournaments and is seeking to grow to be the third man within the open period to win Roland Garros, Wimbledon and US Open in the identical 12 months after Rod Laver in 1969 and Rafael Nadal in 2010. He’ll go off as a wholesome favourite towards Li Tu, he of the shortest identify in skilled tennis, who first cracked the highest 200 in march and reached a career-high rating of No 186 shortly after profitable the M25 Traralgon title on residence soil.
Earlier than we get began … Dan Evans has simply toppled Karen Khachanov within the longest match in US Open historical past. The 34-year-old Briton rallied from 0-4 down within the fifth set to win 6-7 (6), 7-6 (2), 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-4 after 5hr 35min (!). That eclipses the earlier mark held by the well-known 1992 semi-final between Stefan Edberg and Michael Chang, which took 5hr 27min to finish.
Bryan shall be right here shortly. Within the meantime right here’s a have a look at what’s occurring because the day session offers solution to evening in Queens.
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