{"id":616625,"date":"2026-09-06T21:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/616625\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T21:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:42:16","slug":"us-open-2026-results-carlos-alcaraz-beats-tommy-paul-to-reach-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/616625\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open 2026 results: Carlos Alcaraz beats Tommy Paul to reach quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Alcaraz continued his return from long-term injury with a hugely impressive fourth-round win against Tommy Paul at the US Open.<\/p>\n

Playing just his fourth competitive singles match after an absence of more than four months, the 23-year-old Spaniard produced a masterful performance to beat American 20th seed Paul 6-4 6-3 6-4.<\/p>\n

He has dropped only one set on his way to the last eight in New York and his quarter-final opponent will be either American eighth seed Ben Shelton or Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas.<\/p>\n

A wrist injury caused Alcaraz to miss both the French Open and Wimbledon<\/a> earlier this summer.<\/p>\n

He had won the previous two Grand Slams – last year’s US Open and this year’s Australian Open – meaning the straight-set victory over Paul extended his run of match wins at the majors to 18.<\/p>\n

Asked on court if he is back to “full power”, Alcaraz smiled as he replied: “I think so. Except for one year since [his US Open debut in] 2021, I’ve made the quarter-finals here. That shows how special this place is to me and shows how well I’m playing every time I come here.<\/p>\n

“I just try to enjoy my time on the court and it doesn’t matter that I was out for four and a half months – every time I come here, I play my best.”<\/p>\n

Shelton and Tsitsipas meet in Sunday’s night session and seven-time major champion Alcaraz has never previously lost to either player at Tour level, beating Shelton three times and Tsitsipas on six occasions.<\/p>\n

“If Shelton were to come through, he is the kind of player that can knock the racquet out of your hand,” said American former player Jeff Tarango on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra.<\/p>\n

“It’s going to be a real test to see how Alcaraz’s wrist is with a 149mph serve coming to that forehand, but Alcaraz should get through Shelton if his wrist is fine.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz continued his return from long-term injury with a hugely impressive fourth-round win against Tommy Paul at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-616625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}