US Open tennis 2025: Jannik Sinner v Félix Auger-Aliassime, men’s semi-final – live | US Open Tennis 2025

Let’s go then: the second male blockbuster in the semi-finals inside the Arthur Ashe stadium, the reigning champion Jannik Sinner against a resurgent Félix Auger-Aliassime. The world n ° 1 arrives as a clear favorite and the line of form is brutal: Sinner sets up a sequence of victories of 26 games to the majors of the hard field and left only one set every two weeks – in Denis Shapovalov in the third round – before flatten Lorenzo Musetti in law on Wednesday. He continued a fifth successive final appearance of the Grand Slam after having raised the Australian Open and Wimbledon trophies this year and arriving at a point in the Crown of Roland Garros against Carlos Alcaraz. Win this evening and the 24 -year -old also checks a few steps: a 300th career victory and, at this age, the youngest in the open era to reach the four major finals in a single season.

If the story seems inevitable, Auger-Aliassime is there to search him. The last four years of the Canadian to the Slams have been thin – six major consecutive entries without reaching the third round – but this race seemed different. He rediscovered the clarity of the first strike which fueled him with the half Demi-Demi-Mises in the semi-finals of the US 2021, bringing together the seeded n ° 3 Alexander Zverev and the No. 15 Andrey Rublev before surviving the No. 8 Alex de Minaur in a four-set scrap that included two equality and a lot of grain. He has 8-0 in breakers from Cincinnati, 6-0 this week, and he has already returned to the Top 20. Only one Canadian has ever made a major final (Milos Raonic at Wimbledon 2016); The FAA can match this tonight.

In-head, there is just enough story to suggest that it will not be one one-way traffic. Auger-Aliassime actually leads 2-1, one of the few active players with a winning record on Sinner, thanks to Madrid Clay and Cincinnati Hard-Court won in 2022. But their last meeting three weeks ago was a rout: a rout 6-0, 6-2 by Sinner in the districts of Cincy, a reminder of the training of physics, movement and service of Italian. “It has improved a lot,” said Auger-Aliassime about Sinner. “Physics, the movement improved a lot, physically stronger, the service, the forehand more precise. The reverse was always coherent, the return was always good, deep. I needed to play at a high level.” No argument there.

Sinner’s own assessment of the place where it is currently measured rather than messianic. “These are very special opportunities. I find myself again in the semi-finals of a Grand Colem, it’s a great success,” he told journalists this week. “I really like to play the best of the five. I know my body a little better, so I am very happy and happy to be in the semi-finals again. ” He has 67-1 on the hard courts against adversaries classified outside the Top three since the beginning of 2024 and 79-1 against those outside the top 20 since last year’s US Open-figures that explain the aura.

There is also the wider arc to consider. If Sinner advances, we get a third major final of Sinner -Alcaraz from 2025 – after Paris and Wimbledon – something that no male duo has succeeded in a single season in the era open from Emerson -Stolle in 1964. He would finish an unprecedented clean scan of No. 1 V No 2 finals on the four slams and sent the victory of New York. If Auger-Aliassime the breaks are used for history, it is the upheaval of the tournament and a historic moment for Canadian tennis.

Official start time is listed at local time not before 7:22 p.m., we must therefore be underway in about half an hour. Alcaraz is waiting for expectations on Sunday at 2 p.m. Your emails and thoughts are welcome like never before. Let’s do this.