Sinner, 24, and Alcaraz, 22, have carved up the past seven Grand Slams between them, with nobody else winning a major since Djokovic at the 2023 US Open. <\/p>\n
Going into the final major of the year, few predicted Djokovic – or anyone – could prevent Sinner and Alcaraz from completing another calendar sweep.<\/p>\n
But seventh seed Djokovic and Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime, competing in his second Grand Slam semi-final, are the only two left standing in their way.<\/p>\n
Djokovic might still possess an extraordinary talent, pedigree and will to win but, as age catches him up, he no longer has the vitality he once did.<\/p>\n
Physical issues have been apparent in New York, although he has always found a way to win. <\/p>\n
“It’s not going to get easier, I tell you that,” Djokovic said after Tuesday’s quarter-final win over Taylor Fritz.<\/p>\n
“The next couple of days is really key for me to get my body in shape and ready to battle five sets if it’s needed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sinner, 24, and Alcaraz, 22, have carved up the past seven Grand Slams between them, with nobody else…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-134518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134518","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=134518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}