Felix Auger-Aliassime saved his best tennis for the season\u2019s final major.<\/p>\n
The No. 25 seed pulled off his third straight upset \u2014 a 4-6, 7-6 (7), 7-5, 7-6 (4) victory Wednesday over No. 8 Alex de Minaur inside Arthur Ashe Stadium \u2014 to reach the semifinals of the U.S. Open for the second time in his career.<\/p>\n
De Minaur was just the most recent player in the top 15 to be stunned by Auger-Aliassime in this tournament, following No. 3 seed Alexander Zverev and No. 15 seed Andrey Rublev.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime will face the winner of the Italian showdown between world No. 1 Jannik Sinner and Lorenzo Musetti in the semifinals.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was my toughest match in this tournament so far,\u201d Auger-Aliassime said after the match. \u201cBut even down a break in the second, I was like, \u2018OK, let\u2019s just believe that keep going for it,\u2019 like, keep having the same intentions, not change much, but just, you know, believe that it\u2019s going to come back. Like it\u2019s going to come at some point. I\u2019m going to connect a few and feel like, \u2018OK, yeah, here we go.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cTo break back immediately, I think that was a great response mentally and in the game. Then the tiebreak, I went down in the tiebreak, but not down enough that you\u2019d think it\u2019s out of reach. I was, like, \u2018OK, just gotta win one clutch point and one important point and then you\u2019re back in this.\u2019<\/p>\n
Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada reacts after defeating Alex De Minaur of Australia to win his match on Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sept. 3, 2025. Carlos Toro\/New York Post<\/p>\n
\u201cThen it was obviously very tight at the end. Could have gone either way, but came up with some good serves, some good shots. Yeah, once it was one set-all, I felt, \u2018OK, I can settle into the match much more.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
Recovering from a set down, Auger-Aliassime, 25, never put his head down for the remainder of the four-hour, 10-minute match. The confidence he built over the past week and a half visibly carried him through any point when de Minaur looked to take control.<\/p>\n
Even when he fell behind 4-1 and then 5-2 in the fourth set, Auger-Aliassime remained levelheaded enough to force a second tiebreak in the match.<\/p>\n
He ultimately improved to an eye-catching 5-0 in tiebreaks in the tournament.<\/p>\n
Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada greets Alex De Minaur of Australia after he wins his match on Arthur Ashe Stadium. Carlos Toro\/New York Post<\/p>\n
With the win, Auger-Aliassime became just the third player born since 2000 to claim multiple ATP top 10 wins at a men\u2019s singles Grand Slam event after Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz. Additionally, after his win over Zverev, Auger-Aliassime joined Milos Raonic and Denis Shapovalov as the only Canadian men to defeat an ATP top 3 player at a major<\/p>\n
There is worse company to keep.<\/p>\n
Despite hoisting ATP trophies in the Adelaide International and the Open Occitanie through the first two months of this season, Auger-Aliassime could not maintain his form and struggled to compete at the Grand Slam tournaments.<\/p>\n
He lost his Roland Garros opener. He fell out in the second round at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n
Felix Auger-Aliassime returns a ball to Audrey Rublev in the fourth round in Arthur Ashe Stadium, for the NY POST<\/p>\n
The U.S. Open, however, has seen some of Auger-Aliassime\u2019s best.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just try to be myself,\u201d Auger-Aliassime said of the mental side of his game. \u201cI don\u2019t get too excited outside the court either, like in life in general. That\u2019s how I am. I don\u2019t try to be anybody different. But, of course, sometimes in matches you get the energy going, but I don\u2019t try to fake it. I do it when I feel like the point deserves it. I do it when I feel like it\u2019s the right moment or after a big shot or that the energy of the crowd, you know, is also helping me to get myself pumped.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Taking on de Minaur, who was bidding to crack the semifinals at a major for the first time in his career, in a Grand Slam event for the first time, Auger-Aliassime blasted 22 aces and 51 winners.<\/p>\n
The last time Auger-Aliassime reached the final four was in 2021, when he lost to eventual winner Daniil Medvedev in straight sets at age 21.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime gets another go four years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Felix Auger-Aliassime saved his best tennis for the season\u2019s final major. The No. 25 seed pulled off his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[29089,99,428,14687],"class_list":{"0":"post-131818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alex-de-minaur","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-us-open-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}