New York: Halfway through a second set that lasted 1 hour, 44 minutes, a test of tenacity as much as talent amid a US Open 2023 final as exhausting as it was exhilarating, Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev engaged each other in a 32-stroke point. It was among many such elongated exchanges between two…
All four Grand Slam trophies were there. When Novak Djokovic played Daniil Medvedev in the 2021 US Open final — the same two men who will meet Sunday in Arthur Ashe Stadium for the US Open 2023 title — there was more than just the championship of that particular two-week tournament at stake, and the…
New York: Coco Gauff is still a teenager, after all, and so it should surprise no one that she was on her phone in the locker room, scrolling through social media, right up until 10 minutes before heading out on court for the US Open 2023 final. What the 19-year-old from Florida was reading, she…
India’s Rohan Bopanna on Thursday became the oldest male player to reach the Grand Slam final setting a world record after he and his partner Matthew Ebden of Australia reached the men’s doubles final at the US Open. Playing at the Louis Armstrong Stadium, the sixth-seeded pair of Bopanna and Ebden defeated the French pair…
Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz made short work of Alexander Zverev in the quarter-finals of the US Open 2023. He won the match in straight sets, winning it 6-3, 6-2 and 6-4. The match took place at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. And the court was jampacked with fans of the two players and tennis…
New York: Carlos Alcaraz found himself in a hint of a predicament 35 minutes into his US Open 2023 quarterfinal against Alexander Zverev on Wednesday night. At 3-all in the first set under the lights in Arthur Ashe Stadium, Zverev earned the first break points of the match. An opening. An opportunity to gain an…
New York: Ben Shelton is still just 20, still new to this whole professional tennis thing. He is equipped with a tremendously good serve, but don’t think he can’t come through in other ways when it matters the most. On a muggy night in which, yes, he hit 14 aces but also hit 11…
New York: Novak Djokovic did not encounter any of the sort of trouble he did in his previous match, eliminating qualifier Borna Gojo 6-2, 7-5, 6-4 on Sunday night to reach the US Open 2023 quarterfinals. Djokovic — who has won three of his men’s record 23 Grand Slam titles at Flushing Meadows — needed…
New York: Everyone should know by now to never count out Novak Djokovic. No matter how big a deficit he faces. No matter how poorly he might be playing. And so it made sense that Djokovic would manage to come all the way back from a two-set deficit to beat Laslo Djere 4-6, 4-6, 6-1,…
New York: Carlos Alcaraz loves the morning-to-midnight action of Grand Slam tennis, saying he spends all day checking the scores. Then he already knows his side of the US Open 2023 draw has grown significantly tougher than Novak Djokovic’s. The defending champion beat Lloyd Harris 6-3, 6-1, 7-6 (4) on Thursday night to reach…