Alcaraz reduces Tiafoe and flies into history

Carlos Alcaraz jumps and crosses a new threshold.

The final rebellion of Frances Tiafoe cracks and remains in borage water, like a nice dressing that delays the irremediable outcome of a night that contorts the Spaniard's career, now with a single swipe to catch the double dream.

The comeback (6-7(6), 6-3, 6-1, 6-7(5) and 6-3, after 4h 19m) leads him to a face-to-face on Sunday (10pm, Eurosport) with the Norwegian Casper Ruud, who had previously defeated the Russian Karen Khachanov (7-6(5), 6-2, 5-7 and 6-2) and symbolizes the last lock to open towards glory: if he puts the tie to the tournament, Alcaraz he will raise his first Grand Slam and rise to the top simultaneously.

In New York, tennis perhaps sees something big.

The Murcian, 19 years and four months, resists an electric onslaught – third marathon victory in six days, Marin Cilic and Jannik Sinner before – and becomes the youngest tennis player to land in the final of a big

since Rafael Nadal, 19, also at Roland Garros 2005. His name shines along with that of the Mallorcan (5), Juan Carlos Ferrero, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (2), Manolo Orantes and Santana.

Illustrious distinction, accompanied by another trace of precocity, standing next to Pete Sampras (19 years and one month in 1990) as the second youngest in the Flushing Meadows final.

The evening, from here to there and from there to here, bears the signature in the form of a hug.

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"We had to give everything and Frances [Tiafoe] has done it," says the man from El Palmar about the cement, while Tiafoe attends disconsolate and then, in the conference room, the man from Maryland (24 years old, 19th in the world) x-ray without hesitant, praising and anticipating: “I've never played against someone who moves like him.

It's going to be a problem for a long time."

Alcaraz finds this time a new stage.

is prioritized

and the good is recognized, but it is adverse.

The stands that until now had sheltered him now shelter the rival, who rally coldly and does not flinch in the least in the face of any situation of tension or critical point.

Unflappable, poised and upright, Tiafoe comfortably navigates the game and the violent crack of his strings every time he hits the ball creates a state of excitement throughout the center.

Play Tiafoe, there's a party.

Guarantee of speed and hurricane winds.

Aretha Franklin and rap notes play, she applauds Michelle Obama when she is captured by the camera and the noise falls.

The local player is in the sauce of it.

Fire first, release later

Meanwhile, Alcaraz shows off his legs and shows why he is the

circuit's

There are a thousand horses in his rides, and in one of them he rushes so hard in the slide that his nose is a couple of centimeters from the net post.

He sprints from side to side and his ball often finds the lines on the outside, to which Tiafoe responds with a gesture of resignation;

up to seven points arrive rushing the last centimeter.

Even so, the American remains zen, seeking revenue with the service, while the Spanish show some signs of nervousness.

Alcaraz is fattened in the second rest and the precipitation puts him against the ropes.

He is not fine in the maneuver with the backhand, but he insists, and Tiafoe generates the first moment of trouble.

The Murcian avoids the fire and then scratches one of those points that can mark the turning point, with an intern in devastating retreat, but logic weighs in the tiebreaker: the North American, a cannon if history goes face to face, has won the six that He has played in the tournament until he got here.

The prize resists him, although he reaches it on the fifth opportunity and then surpasses the record of his compatriot Pete Sampras (7-0 in the 2000 edition), thanks to a double fault that he stings.

Fifth-set king @carlosalcaraz is into the #USOpen final!

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– US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 10, 2022

Going to sit on the chair, Alcaraz punishes his bag with a racket.

He doesn't see it clearly and looks at the coach, and Juan Carlos Ferrero intervenes: "The second serve, when you don't see it clearly, shoot hard and to the center".

The reaction takes time to arrive, but midway through the second

the spark jumps.

Suddenly, the Spaniard breaks the corset and breaks free.

Now yes, his tennis flows, his ball hurts and his bite is accurate:

for 4-2, booty that he protects safely until the match is balanced.

Reversed dynamics in the Arthur Ashe, where he raises —drastic error reduction: 16-6-1 in the first three installments— and Tiafoe decompresses resoundingly.

The adversary has flu.

Or not?

Contradejada and more reel

The solidity that the American had shown in his journey – only one set delivered towards the semifinal – is undone and the seams are blown up.

He gives up a blank break, then another and in the third quarter, a third.

Tiafoe is literally

.

Every exchange is torture.

The track has narrowed for him and the New York stands, rather lukewarm in that emergency strip for his player, do not do much to revive him until he sees him on the edge of the precipice.

Meanwhile, Alcaraz adds and continues diligently and is only missing the push for the opponent to fall into the void, but he is resurrected with a counterpoint that cancels the

and adds reel to the resolution.

Yes, Tiafoe has life left.

Unbelievable but true, the American is saved and rushes the specialty of the

to debate until the end, although there is a feeling that, sooner or later, Alcaraz will end up winning the points.

After a distribution of slaps, from break to break at the beginning of the fifth set, the final break (

to the fifth game) exhausts the credit of the local player and launches the Murcian, who continues to accelerate and put the turbo towards that story that wait with open arms.

They say a good bite of the cake belongs to you.

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