{"id":135969,"date":"2025-09-06T01:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/135969\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T01:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:25:08","slug":"djokovic-loses-to-alcaraz-updated-us-open-mens-tennis-bracket-after-fridays-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/135969\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic Loses to Alcaraz, Updated US Open Men&#8217;s Tennis Bracket After Friday&#8217;s Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Carlos Alcaraz is one step closer to becoming the first man in the Open era to win the US Open without dropping a single set in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Alcaraz won a second-set tiebreak on his way to defeating No. 7 Novak Djokovic 6-4, 7-6(4), 6-2 during Friday&#8217;s semifinal at Arthur Ashe Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The victory marked the first time in nine career <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/atp-head-2-head\/novak-djokovic-vs-carlos-alcaraz\/d643\/a0e2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">head-to-head matchups<\/a> that Alcaraz had defeated Djokovic on hard court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The momentum of the final shifted when Djokovic, who broke first in the second set, had the chance to tie the match with a tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Alcaraz used a serve that clocked in at 131 miles per hour, per The Athletic&#8217;s <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/live-blogs\/us-open-2025-live-updates-mens-semifinals-scores-results\/AoRzl25yvmjD\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">James Hansen<\/a>, to win the tiebreak and put Djokovic down by two sets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The world No. 2 went on to dominate in his third set on his way to the seventh Grand Slam final of his career. Djokovic closed out the loss with a double fault and an unforced error.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Alcaraz won his first major title by defeating Jannik Sinner at the 2022 US Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">He opened the 2025 edition of the tournament by dispatching Reilly Opelka, Mattia Bellucci, No. 32 Luciano Darderi and Arthur Rinderknech in straight sets, although he had to win an opening-set tiebreaker against Rinderknech. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Alcaraz continued the streak while defeating No. 20 Jiri Lehecka in the quarterfinals and Djokovic in the semis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Only Sinner, currently ranked as the world No. 1, or No. 25 Felix Auger-Aliassime now stand between Alcaraz and his sixth Grand Slam title. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Sinner and Auger-Aliassime are set to face off in their own semifinal matchup in New York at 7 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Should Sinner defeat Auger-Aliassime on Friday night, it would mark the third straight time he and Alcaraz have faced off in a Grand Slam final. Alcaraz defeated Sinner at the 2025 French Open before Sinner earned redemption with a victory at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz is one step closer to becoming the first man in the Open era to win the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-135969","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\/135969","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=135969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}