{"id":116500,"date":"2025-09-03T20:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/116500\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T20:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:17:07","slug":"felix-auger-aliassime-tops-alex-de-minaur-to-reach-us-open-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/116500\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Auger-Aliassime tops Alex De Minaur to reach US Open semis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a> earned a hard-fought 4-6, 7-6 (7), 7-5, 7-6 (4) win over No. 8 Alex De Minaur<\/a> on Wednesday to return to the US Open semifinals four years after his first appearance.<\/p>\n

The 25th-seeded Auger-Aliassime, a 25-year-old Canadian, was a semifinalist at Flushing Meadows in 2021, his only other time reaching that stage of a major.<\/p>\n

With his wins over No. 3 Alexander Zverev<\/a>, No. 15 Andrey Rublev<\/a> and now De Minaur, it’s the first time Auger-Aliassime has beaten multiple ATP Top-20 players in the same major.<\/p>\n

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He’s guaranteed to face another Friday in the semifinals — either world No. 1 Jannik Sinner<\/a> or No. 10 Lorenzo Musetti<\/a>, who play an all-Italian quarterfinal in the second night session match at Arthur Ashe Stadium.<\/p>\n

The quarterfinal between Auger-Aliassime and De Minaur went 4 hours and 10 minutes, the second-longest match on Arthur Ashe Stadium during this year’s tournament (the Tommy Paul<\/a>\/Nuno Borges<\/a> second-round five-setter was 4:25).<\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime earned his 25th match win on hard court this season, fourth most on the men’s tour. He also improved to 6-0 in tiebreaks at this year’s US Open, tied for the most won by any man en route to the semifinals since tiebreaks were introduced at the 1970 tournament.<\/p>\n

De Minaur, a 26-year-old Australian, dropped to 0-5 in major quarterfinals — the only men in the Open era with a worse record in the quarterfinals of a Slam are Rublev (0-10) and Tommy Robredo<\/a> (0-7). Guy Forget was also 0-5 for his career.<\/p>\n

Lleyton Hewitt<\/a> remains the last Australian man to make the US Open semifinals, in 2005.<\/p>\n

ESPN Research contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Felix Auger-Aliassime earned a hard-fought 4-6, 7-6 (7), 7-5, 7-6 (4) win over No. 8 Alex De Minaur…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-116500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}