Qiao Shuai reached the US Open final for the tenth time in his career.AFP
[Zhan Jianquan/Comprehensive Report]Although the 20-year-old Ben Shelton, ranked 47th in the world, is the youngest American slugger to break into the top four of the US Open men’s singles in the past 30 years, he faced the world’s No. 2 Novak Djokovic still looked too young in front of him. After 2 hours and 39 minutes, Djokovic was only defeated in 1 game and defeated the American hope in straight games, successfully advancing to the US Open Men’s Championship for the tenth time. A single final and the most 36th Grand Slam final in history!
With a heavyweight body of 193 centimeters and 88.6 kilograms, Shelton, the 2022 NCAA singles champion, has achieved great results in this year’s US Open with his heavy serving and attacking style. However, in fact, this year’s US Open is only his first He has challenged the Grand Slam five times. Last year, he lost in the first round of the US Open for the first time.
Of course, it was the first time Djokovic faced Shelton, who had reached the Grand Slam for the 47th time. Although Shelton had the support of all American fans, he still made too many unforced errors. At the beginning of the first set, the two sides guaranteed each other for the first 5 games. In the 6th game, Qiao Shuai took the lead to break serve. In the 8th game, he once forced 4 late points of the set, but luckily was resolved by Shelton. However, in the 9th game, Qiao Shuai succeeded in closing the game. , won the first set 6-3.
In the second set, Qiao Shuai was still the first to break serve in the 5th game. After breaking serve again in the 7th game, he won the second set 6-2 without any controversy.
Shelton only showed some counterattack momentum at the end of the third set.AFP
In the first game of the third set, Qiao Shuai took advantage of Shelton’s instability to break serve first. However, Shelton finally broke Qiao Shuai’s serve for the first time in the 8th game, which made fans all over the United States excited. However, he failed to win a late match point in the 10th game, and was broken again in the 11th game. However, when Shelton had to save in the 12th game, although he faced a late match point, fortunately he still won. The game was resolved and broke again, leading to a tiebreaker at 6-6.
In the crucial tie-break, the experienced Qiao Shuai took the lead by scoring 3 points and once led 5-1; but the young and fearless Sheldon managed to catch up to 4-5 and was only 1 point away, but Qiao Shuai finally Still scored 2 points in a row, and finally won 7-4, reaching the US Open final for the tenth time. Qiao Shuai only made 25 unforced errors in the game, but Shelton made as many as 43, becoming this The biggest key to winning or losing a game.
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