Pablo Carreño, a real semifinalist

Pablo Carreño raises his arms and smiles, because he has more than enough reasons to do so.

The 29-year-old Asturian has just reduced the talented Denis Shapovalov to 3-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4), 0-6 and 6-3 (in 4h 08m) and sealed his pass to the semifinals of the US Open for the second time in his career.

The man from Gijón does it after showing his physique and poise, without fainting, in an exercise in seriousness and control that places him among the best four of the great New Yorker and leads him directly to Alexander Zverev, who previously defeated Borna Coric by 1 -6, 7-6, 7-6 and 6-3.

"The key?

That I have worked very hard ”, responds to the ex-player James Blake, with the breath still ragged because the wear has been of aúpa.

The young Shapovalov (21) came strong, offering one of the most attractive proposals of this edition, and not only did he manage to contain the Spanish, but also overwhelmed him.

The Canadian tried it by land, sea and air, but the most solid, the most complete, the one who had the greatest determination won a prize.

Carreño repeats, then, the achievement achieved three years ago.

He prevailed in a duel that was a true emotional rollercoaster, in which Shapovalov constantly put the turbo on and he was interested in a more leisurely pace.

The Canadian wanted, pure vigor, energy on all four sides, that everything happened very quickly and there was not too much debate, but Carreño was neutralizing him by turning into a fronton, based on legs and biting when he had to.

He started in tow, a tsunami was coming, but he temporized and was taking the pulse of the game and reducing the momentum of the left-hander.

Shapovalov has a golden future, but haste and the desire to win.

He gives off his racket a few arched strokes and his ball constantly makes strange, very difficult to tame;

It is an offensive torrent and builds each point like a goldsmith.

However, when the pulse demanded a warm head, Carreño made the difference, who won the

of the second and third sets, and got up after receiving a more than important slap in the fourth.

His back was stiff, he required the help of the physio and little by little he regained his good tone.

He weathered the storm and made Shapovalov pay for his waste of the attack.

The Canadian, extraordinary on the net (52 hits in 70 raises), left a card with 76 winners and 26

, but he broke down with errors (76, and 11 double faults) due to that excess of doing everything too beautiful.

He expands the track like few others on the circuit, but Carreño, more experienced in stringing, countered with cool blood and a more balanced approach.

Enlarged, he struck the final blow with a

in the sixth game of the resolution and thus earned the right to the appointment with Zverev, whom he has faced only once.

It was in the semifinals in Miami, two years ago, also on concrete, and the German claimed victory.

Spain was already dawning, and his tennis had a sweet awakening: Carreño, by his own merits, is once again a US Open semifinalist.