Alcaraz beats Djokovic in three sets: it’s in the US Open final

Carlos Alcaraz takes the third Slam final in a row, the seventh in his career, and now awaits Jannik Sinner to broadcast the umpteenth reply of a challenge that seems infinite. The Spanish champion beat an extraordinary, indomitable, Novak Djokovic in the semifinal of the US Open, who unfortunately at 38 years old seems to be able to be reason for another opponent, father time, that is invulnerable. Alcaraz won with the score of 6-4 7-6 (4) 6-2 in two hours and 23 minutes, and in the implacable journey towards the final the Murciano final did not miss a set, a company successful at the US Open for the last time to Roger Federer in 2015. The Swiss then lost the last challenge against Nole. Maybe.

The first set

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The first set decides practically immediately. Ready away and it is Break Alcaraz, who surprises Djokovic by immediately shooting straight rifles that make it clear the intentions of the Roland Garros champion. Two break balls for the Spaniard the first game, Nole saves the first, not the second. Alcaraz flies away and for a few minutes the Serbian understands little. In no time we are 2-0 and another break ball for Murciano, but Nole saves himself with the service. The number two of the world alternates moments of absolute fury with avoidable errors, but it is normal when pulling all over: certain shots seem to have come out of the cannons of Navarone, such is the power, not only of straight but also of reverse. Djokovic, however, has already seen all this, and puts himself in waiting and recovery mode. He does not succeed, because Carlos does not offer opportunities on his service, but slowly the former n.1 enters the game and the difference thinks. Alcaraz closes the first set 6-4 in 48 minutes, but it is clear that another meeting is about to start. Djokovic does not seem to break up much. And why should it? After all, the Australian Open had started like this.

The second set

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And in fact at the beginning of the second set Nole is saved from 0-30 in the first game, thanks also a distorted straight shot shot by the Spaniard, and this time he is the one who tears, for the first time in the match, the service in Alcaraz a little confused, in an Arthur Ashe who looks like a bedlam. Nole also keeps the second round of the joke and goes on 3-0 in his favor. The Murciano wakes up from the (usual) Pannichella during the meetings, goes on 3-1 and the next game gets a break ball with a passer-by only from the wrist who has very little sense on the planet Earth. Nole undergoes the blow, sends a backhand on the net and the Spaniard recovers the break, 3-2. You arrive 4-4, Alcaraz flies 0-30 with a senseless reverse that dies at the crossroads of the lines, an exchange of 27 shots very hard and wins it, which refers everything on the other side waiting for the opponent’s error. And two more in a row arrive, with many thanks from Belgrade. We go to the tie break, Alcaraz immediately goes on with Djokovic that the next point is saved but then gives twice to the Spaniard, who climbs 4-1 but wastes away the two services with wicked choices and we are 4-3, with rent that does not give in to a millimeter. Next point, very hard exchange and this time it is Djokovic to make mistakes, exhausted. Alcaraz goes 6-4 and serves to close the partial, rent the response and the Spaniard, after an hour and 52 minutes, takes home, takes home the seventeenth set in a row of the tournament.

rendering

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Alcaraz has never lost from 2 sets to zero above in Slam, but Djokovic has recovered eight, of games that seemed lost, last time with Djere the 2023. Another opponent and above all other rent, aware that the Everest in T -shirt and tennis shoes should now climb. On the 2-1 Alcaraz has two break balls that have the flavor of match point and the Serbian, apparently exhausted, delivers it with the second double foul of the game. From here on is Alcaraz Show, unbeatable and spectacular if he plays with a loose arm, which sails without problems for a 6-2 that is worth the second final of the US Open in his career, after the triumph of 2022. For Djokovic it is the fourth defeat in a row in the semifinal in the Slam, and who knows, it could also be the last of an incredible career. The Serbian greets the audience by beating his hand on his heart: he gave everything he could. Alcaraz is at the eighth final in a row in 2025 (it does not lose in the previous rounds by Miami 2025), with a record of 60-6 this year. Impressive numbers, waiting to find one between Jannik Sinner and Felix Auger Aliassime.