{"id":117720,"date":"2025-09-06T02:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117720\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T02:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:49:06","slug":"what-time-is-novak-djokovic-vs-carlos-alcaraz-us-open-semi-final-start-time-and-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117720\/","title":{"rendered":"What time is Novak Djokovic vs Carlos Alcaraz? US Open semi-final start time and how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Djokovic, the 24-time Grand Slam champion, is without a major title since 2023, where he lifted the trophy in New York, New York, defeating Daniil Medvedev in the final. <\/p>\n<p>Since then, the new guard has asserted its dominance, with Jannik Sinner and Alcaraz hoarding the last year\u2019s Slams.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz is a five-time Grand Slam winner and the current French Open holder, but his two-year winning streak at Wimbledon was ended by Sinner in July. <\/p>\n<p>Sinner, the world No1, is the defending champion at Flushing Meadows having beaten home favourite Taylor Fritz in last year\u2019s final. <\/p>\n<p>The Italian takes on Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime in the other last-four match, but before them, Djokovic and Alcaraz lock horns on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/arthur-ashe-stadium\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arthur Ashe Stadium<\/a> for a ninth time. <\/p>\n<p>The Serb is up 5-3 in the pair\u2019s head-to-head, and has won the last two meetings between them, at the Paris 2024 Olympics gold medal match, and in this year\u2019s Australian Open quarter-finals. <\/p>\n<p>From those two matches, Djokovic has dropped just one set, and on hard courts, he is unbeaten against the 22-year-old Spaniard. <\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz, however, has winning pedigree at the US Open, claiming a first major title of his nascent career in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>The second seed is yet to drop a set at this year\u2019s tournament, and he put on a spectacular show as he breezed past 20th seed Jiri Lehecka in the last eight. <\/p>\n<p>Djokovic, meanwhile, survived two scares in the second and third round, dropping a set each to Zachary Svajda and Cameron Norrie, and he recovered from a third-set blip against world No3 Fritz to come through the American in four sets in the quarter-finals. <\/p>\n<p>How to watch Novak Djokovic vs Carlos Alcaraz <\/p>\n<p>TV channel: You can watch this match &#8211; and the whole of the US Open &#8211; on Sky Sports Tennis, with this match estimated to get underway at around 8pm BST. <\/p>\n<p>Live stream: Those with Sky Go or Now TV sport subscriptions can also stream the semi-final clash live. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Djokovic, the 24-time Grand Slam champion, is without a major title since 2023, where he lifted the trophy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[56398,870,6766,101,118,56,54,55,6545],"class_list":{"0":"post-117720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-arthur-ashe-stadium","9":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","10":"tag-novak-djokovic","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom","16":"tag-us-open"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}