“For sure, myself and all the other young players are hungry to do more, to do more, and to, yeah, to take the spot of the others,” said Auger-Aliassime. He’ll face 18-year-old Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz Tuesday with a semifinal berth on the line. “I have four kids saying ‘Whatever happens, you’re my inspiration.’ That’s what it’s about… That’s the sh-t that matters.”Īuger-Aliassime won 84 percent of his first serve points, and cruised to the win. Not just even because I lost, it’s just the amount of love they showed me walking off the court,” said Tiafoe. “It got me super emotional, I almost cried walking off court.

But dropping the second set and then losing a third-set tiebreaker 8-6, there was no recovery, no matter how hard the partisan crowd tried to push him. Tiafoe won the first set, staving off eight break points. I’m happy where I’m at.” Felix Auger-Aliassime Corey Sipkin I’m playing great tennis…On any given day I can beat anybody in the world. Same work you did to get up there, you need to keep going,” said Tiafoe. I got complacent, thought I was just going to just keep going. I was – before I was 21 – 29th in the world. “I had a great start of my career, flying up the rankings. It’s also the only season he’s ever gotten to the third round or better in multiple Majors.

But after peaking young and then taking a dip, the 23-year-old from PG County (Md.) lost in the fourth round here for the second straight year. Tiafoe is no stranger to high early expectations. I’m more and more confident I can be at this stage more often.” And then this year, now my third second week of a Slam. “In 2020 making the Round of 16 here for the first time, that helped my confidence. “Last couple of years (I felt it) maybe too much,” said Auger-Aliassime. And after years of feeling the burden of great expectations, he’s followed up his Wimbledon run by becoming the youngest man to reach consecutive quarterfinals at Grand Slams since Juan Martin del Potro in 2008-09. The 21-year-old Canadian overcame early nerves to hit two dozen aces. Top tennis star suspended after failed US Open drug testįelix Auger-Aliassime reached the quarterfinals at the US Open for the first time, overcoming resurgent American Frances Tiafoe 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (6), 6-4 and a partisan Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd to do it. The evolution of Frances Tiafoe - who was just a little too happyįormer US Open champ announces she’s pregnant, a year after retirement Sore loser obliterates 3 tennis rackets during viral meltdown: ‘Appalling’

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