Novak Djokovic aims for 25th grand slam

Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz participate the semi-finals of the US Open with wholly other stories. While Novak's tennis acquisition whitethorn person reached the highest of his career, the 22-year-old Spaniard is conscionable entering his prime. This lucifer astatine Flushing Meadows promises an epic conflict for the final.

For Novak, each decision successful the semi-finals was difficult, but helium learned from each 1 and showed what helium learned the adjacent time. The rivalry with Alcaraz implicit the past 3 years resembles the maturation of a tree; if you chopped it, you tin spot the grades, and each people is simply a lucifer and an experience. Novak has a people of 5:3 against the young Spaniard; this semi-final becomes a awesome constituent of his readiness to look Sinner and Alcaraz successful the future.

"I'll person to enactment truly hard and exhaust my assemblage to the limit. You consciousness it's an unfair fight, due to the fact that you participate with a half-empty tank, and they participate with a afloat one, due to the fact that biology is similar that. I don't person an injury, but I person injuries, nary large deal. Something ever happens, each lucifer is thing new, successful presumption of those mini-injuries. But I deliberation it's a large quality present compared to Wimbledon and the Australian Open, due to the fact that past I was entering the semifinals. Now it's not the lawsuit injured," he said. 

Djokovic knows that galore are tipping him to lose, but helium likes to onslaught from the 2nd plan: 

"People tin predict, helium truly is the favourite and plays great, Sinner too, but I volition bash my champion to messiness up the accounts and due to the fact that of specified matches, aft all, I inactive compete."

Andy Roddick reacts

The Spaniard came into the US Open with a triumph successful Cincinnati and an awesome 11-0 grounds since Wimbledon, portion Novak comes with acquisition and a strategy to conserve vigor during the tournament. Tim Henman highlights Alcaraz's carnal vantage and youth, but acknowledges Novak's genius astatine expansive slams. 

Andy Roddick points retired that Novak volition bask the lucifer adjacent if the assemblage supports Alcaraz: 

"He'll prime a conflict to triumph a battle. Honestly, if he's successful an inferior situation, that's amended for him."

Both already supply affluent rewards; the semi-finalists person 1,260,000 dollars each, the finalist 2,500,000, and the victor of the US Open arsenic overmuch arsenic 5,000,000. However, wealth is not the astir important happening - the existent conflict volition beryllium connected the field, wherever Novak tries to widen his dominance, and Alcaraz and Sinner to laic caller foundations for the future.