US Open 2024 Day Ten Quarter Final Recap

The semi-final lineup on the 2024 US Open is ready, and Jannik Sinner will tackle Jack Draper within the prime half, together with Taylor Fritz in opposition to Frances Tiafoe from the underside part of the draw.

In Wednesday’s two remaining quarter-finals, Jack Draper made gentle work of Alex de Minaur, pushing him apart 6-3, 7-5, 6-2 because the Aussie appeared to endure a reoccurrence of the hip harm he sustained at Wimbledon.

Pre-tournament favorite Jannik Sinner then delivered within the evening session, proving too adept from the baseline to see off Daniil Medvedev 6-2, 1-6, 6-1, 6-4.

Day Ten US Open 2024 Quarter Remaining Outcomes

Winner
Loser
Scoreline

Jannik Sinner (1)
Daniil Medvedev (5)
6-2 1-6 6-1 6-4

Jack Draper (25)
Alex de Minaur (10)
603 7-5 6-2

Sinner Too Robust for Medvedev

Jannik Sinner is the person to beat at this 12 months’s US Open, and he brushed apart Daniil Medvedev 6-2, 1-6, 6-1, 6-4 to safe a spot in his third main semi-final of the season.

The 2 have now met 13 occasions, with the H2H at 7-6 in Medvedev’s favour, though he’s solely gained 1 of the final seven matches.

The newest encounter wasn’t a match for the ages. Neither participant was good, and momentum switched continuously.

Sinner surged forward with a double-break lead within the first set earlier than Medvedev, after a shaky begin, began to seek out his sport as he captured the second.

Nonetheless, the match all the time felt like Sinner may take his sport up a notch to depart Medvedev reeling, and that occurred when he gained the primary 5 video games of the third set, taking management of the match.

Within the fourth set, Sinner’s degree dropped briefly, permitting Medvedev a sniff, however the Italian saved two vital break factors at 2-3. He then secured a decisive break and transformed his second match level on his serve.

Total, Medvedev by no means appeared like he may win this one, and I believed Sinner, regardless of not being at his finest, had the measure of his opponent. I favored that he threw in some serve-and-volley performs and drop pictures to combine it up and I feel he wins the title comfortably.

It was very powerful. We all know one another fairly nicely. We performed in Australia this 12 months after which London. We knew it was going to be very bodily. The primary two units had been unusual as a result of whoever made the primary break then began to roll. We tried to work onerous on this facet of the sport. I do know I can enhance rather a lot, particularly going to the web. I attempted to serve and volley a number of occasions, attempting to combine one thing in. I’m very pleased with how I did at present, and let’s see how I deal with the subsequent opponent. Sinner on his win.

Match Stats

Jannik Sinner
Daniil Medvedev

Aces
4
5

Double Faults
1
6

1st Serve Share
53%
56%

1st Serve Factors Received
76% (39/51)
67% (41/61)

2nd Serve Factors Received
61% (28/46)
42% (20/48)

Break Factors Saved
75% (6/8)
67% (10/15)

1st Return Factors Received
33% (20/61)
24% (12/51)

2nd Return Factors Received
58% (28/48)
39% (18/46)

Break Factors Transformed
33% (5/15)
25% (2/8)

Winners
31
30

Unforced Errors
38
57

Web Factors Received
85% (28/33)
67% (16/24)

Max Factors In Row
11
5

Service Factors Received
69% (67/97)
56% (61/109)

Return Factors Received
44% (48/109)
31% (30/97)

Whole Factors Received
56% (115/206)
44% (91/206)

Max Video games In Row
5
5

Service Video games Received
88% (14/16)
69% (11/16)

Return Video games Received
31% (5/16)
13% (2/16)

Whole Video games Received
59% (19/32)
41% (13/32)

Highlights

Draper Denies De Minaur

With Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic each within the backside half of the draw, Jack Draper is an unlikely semi-finalist, however he’s there with out dropping a set, his newest win being a routine 6-3, 7-5, 6-2 victory over Alex de Minaur.

Draper has a robust baseline sport, backed up with a heavy lefty serve, however has proven some stamina points up to now.

Based mostly on that, I believed De Minaur would guarantee he was on the market for 4+ hours earlier than finally operating him into the bottom.

Nonetheless, the Aussie, who hadn’t performed since a hip harm at Wimbledon, appeared to irritate that harm throughout the first set.

By that time, he was already down a break, and the tone of the match had been set. If the Demon can’t run, he can not win, as his sport is constructed on court docket protection.

Draper, alternatively, who additionally obtained remedy for a leg situation, can blaze winners, and as soon as he’d obtained in entrance, he barely appeared again.

Regardless of dropping a 4-2 lead within the second set, he was quickly again on observe with a decisive break within the eleventh sport and simply clinched the third set, dropping solely six factors on serve.

I feel I performed a stable match. I really feel the most effective fitness-wise that I’ve been in a very long time, and I feel that’s the place Alex has form of obtained me up to now. I additionally assume he was perhaps struggling a little bit bit at present with one thing, which could have helped me a little bit bit. However credit score to Alex. He’s a tremendous fighter and an unbelievable participant. We’re going to have many extra battles to come back. Draper on his win.