US Open
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Rybakina beats Gauff and will be world No. 1, Jean-Pol swears he called it in January
Elena Rybakina reached her first US Open final on Thursday, beating Coco Gauff 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. The Kazakh player will become world number one.
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Blockx sees no limits, Maxime goes looking for who measures them
Alexander Blockx, speaking from New York the day after retiring in the US Open quarter-final, has gone from the top 100 to 27th in the world and says he sees no limits…
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Shelton beats Alcaraz at 3.33am, Maxime wonders who was allowed to leave
Ben Shelton (ATP 9) knocked Carlos Alcaraz (ATP 3) out of the US Open quarter-finals 6-7 (5/7), 6-1, 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (10/7). The match lasted 4hr 28min and finished at 3.33am, the…
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Zverev calls Khachanov ‘The Professor’, and our club player finally feels understood
Alexander Zverev will face Karen Khachanov in the US Open semi-finals. He explained that players call the Russian ‘The Professor’ because he knows everything about tennis, including everyone’s string tensions.
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Shelton beats a top-3 player after 17 failures, and Jean-Pol called it in January
At 23, Ben Shelton has won his first career match against a top-3 player, after losing his first seventeen attempts against that group. He beat Carlos Alcaraz 6-7 (5/7), 6-1, 6-3, 1-6,…
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Alcaraz on court until 3.33am, and the C30.4 notes that his club shuts at midnight
Carlos Alcaraz and Ben Shelton played until 3.33am at the US Open, in a match that started at 11.05pm and lasted a little over four hours. It is the latest finish in…
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Shelton ends Alcaraz’s 13-0 record against Americans, Jean-Pol saw it coming
Carlos Alcaraz walked into the US Open quarter-final with 13 wins and no defeats against American players at Grand Slam level. Ben Shelton won it on a super tie-break in the fifth…