Alcaraz to play Sinner in US Open final after beating Djokovic

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Jannik Sinner overcame Felix Auger-Aliassime to acceptable up different last with Carlos Alcaraz, who defeated Novak Djokovic.

Published On 6 Sep 2025

Second effect Carlos Alcaraz took down 24-times large victor Novak Djokovic 6-4 7-6(4) 6-2 with objective precision to scope the US Open final, prevailing successful a highly anticipated showdown that packed the location astatine Arthur Ashe Stadium.

The lucifer connected Friday was billed arsenic the hottest summons successful New York and lived up to the hype, with a scoreline that belied its intensity, arsenic the 2022 champion Alcaraz soaked successful deafening cheers connected lucifer point.

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Djokovic had won their 2 astir caller meetings, including successful the quarterfinals of the Australian Open earlier this year, but the 38-year-old showed deterioration and teardrop against the Spaniard 16 years his junior.

“It’s thing that I’m moving on, conscionable the consistency connected the matches, connected the tournaments, connected the twelvemonth successful general,” said Alcaraz, who won his 5th large rubric astatine Roland Garros this twelvemonth and finished runner-up astatine Wimbledon.

“Just not having up-and-downs successful the match. Just the level that I commencement the match, conscionable wanted to support that level truly precocious during the full match.”

Djokovic dropped his service erstwhile helium sent a changeable past the baseline successful the opening crippled and was incapable to acceptable up a azygous interruption constituent accidental successful the archetypal set, which Alcaraz closed retired with an unreturnable serve.

Urged connected by the celebrity-packed stands, the seventh effect got successful the combat successful the 2nd set, sending implicit a superb backhand to person connected a interruption constituent successful the 2nd game.

But Alcaraz had not dropped a acceptable truthful acold successful New York and was not astir to commencement arsenic helium enactment his ft connected the gas, mounting up a interruption constituent aft surviving a 16-shot rally with 1 of his good forehand winners and converting from the baseline.

Down 0-2 successful the tiebreak, Djokovic outlasted his hostile successful a cheeky speech astatine the nett and paused to instrumentality successful the roars of the crowd, a reminder of the Serb’s perennial entreaty 2 decades aft his Flushing Meadows main gully debut.

But the Spaniard kept his nerve, closing retired the tiebreak with 2 much unreturnable serves earlier Djokovic talented him a interruption constituent with a treble responsibility successful the 4th crippled of the 3rd set.

“It’s not casual playing against him, to beryllium honest,” said Alcaraz, who deed doubly arsenic galore winners arsenic his opponent.

“I’m reasoning astir the legend, what helium has achieved successful his career. It’s hard not to deliberation astir it. So that makes facing him adjacent tougher.”

The penning was connected the partition for Djokovic arsenic helium deed different treble responsibility connected the penultimate constituent of the match, and helium leaned connected the nett arsenic helium congratulated his hostile with a grin aft handing implicit the contention with a wide forehand.

“Of course, it’s frustrating connected the tribunal erstwhile you are not capable to support up with that level physically. But astatine the aforesaid time, it’s thing besides expected,” said Djokovic, who picked up the past of his 4 US Open titles successful 2023.

“It comes with clip and with age.”

Sinner overcomes spirited Auger-Aliassime challenge

Defending champion Jannik Sinner battled past 25th effect Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-1 3-6 6-3 6-4 successful the 2nd semifinal to acceptable up different blockbuster rubric clash with Alcaraz and renew 1 of the sport’s astir compelling rivalries.

Shortly aft Alcaraz wove his magic to dismantle Djokovic, the usually machine-like Sinner misfired astatine times but prevailed to guarantee a 3rd successive large last with the Spaniard.

The Italian satellite No 1 faced little absorption successful the 5th crippled of the contention but dialled up the strength to clasp and wrapped up the lopsided opening acceptable erstwhile Auger-Aliassime sent a backhand wide.

Auger-Aliassime settled his nerves successful his 2nd New York semifinal, breaking for a 5-3 pb successful the adjacent acceptable en way to levelling the match, earlier going toe-to-toe with Sinner successful the 3rd set, lone for the momentum to displacement again.

Sinner, who took a aesculapian timeout for an unspecified contented earlier, recovered his groove to adjacent retired the 3rd acceptable and staved disconnected a beardown situation from his reinvigorated Canadian hostile with immoderate clutch serving successful the adjacent acceptable to advance.

Sinner volition look disconnected against Alcaraz for the 3rd successive Grand Slam last connected Sunday. Sinner captured the Australian Open and Wimbledon titles this play but mislaid to Alcaraz successful an epic five-set conflict successful the French Open final.

“Sunday is simply a precise peculiar time and an astonishing last again,” said Sinner. “I consciousness similar our rivalry started present (in 2022) playing an astonishing match. We are 2 antithetic players now, with antithetic assurance too.”