The disqualification of Novak Djokovic gave to Pablo Carreño Busta an unexpected pass to the quarterfinals of the US Open and the Asturian has not wasted opportunity. Early this Wednesday, after a marathon of four hours and nine minutes that has sealed before Denis Shapovalov with 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-4), 0-6 and 6-3, Carreño has fully earned his return for the second time in his career at a semifinal of a great, again as in 2017 in New York, where on Friday an even greater challenge awaits him than the young Canadian promise: the German Alexander Zverev.
The battle with Shapovalov, a 21 year old lefty electric, aggressive and endowed with a great service, it has been intense. But Carreño, eight years older, has shown in a match of the highest level the strength of your seniority, in game and in mind. No wonder that on Arthur Ashe’s practically deserted track, after raising both arms, clenching his fists in the air and throwing a plethoric “we go! we go!” already with victory in his hands, he has confessed “shattered but very happy”.
“I am very happy, the feeling is amazing”, He said shortly after in the virtual press conference, reviewing a match in which he he has given “everything”.
A roller coaster
Carreño has admitted that came out “very nervous” and in the first set he opened opportunities that Shapovalov knew how to take advantage of, playing in an uncomfortable way for the Spaniard and with a machine gun with direct aces. In the second, however, Carreño did settings and the Canadian also began to combine his brutal serve with an avalanche of double faults. After a service break dance at the start of the set it ended on el tie break, which like the third Carreño scored brilliantly.
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In the fourth set the Shapovalov of the first reappeared, with a forcefulness that allowed him to take it blank. The party roller coaster reappeared once more. But after the physio attention before starting the last round, Carreño, “Like new”, stopped any possibility for the Canadian to take advantage of the pull and once again displaying his best game sealed the sweetest of victories.
With it, Carreño secures the options of being the new player who will add his name to the list of great champions in this anomalous year, where neither Roger Federer nor Rafael Nadal they have competed at Flushing Meadows and Djokovic is gone. “Be important for tennis that there is a new champion”Said Carreño. “Hopefully it’s me.” And he knows that the players left in the box, including Zverev, are “of a very high level”, but for now he is there with them. And, as he said, “it is something to celebrate, to be very happy and to keep dreaming”.
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