Important events
Felix is trapped between two stools: He does not beat consistently enough to unleash, but if he is for the time being, as he was at the end of that last game, he will lose. It will not be surprising if, in the disappointment of all those efforts not to break, he has broken himself and, while I type, controls a jumping volley from close to the Net Demon 15-40. He cannot enter the first opportunity, but sniffs the second, and at 6-4 3-2 he leads through a set and a break. This competition disappears quickly.
This is a huge game for Felix, who burned two breaking point, And when the minaur is incorrect with a backhand, the line gets over, it is over. The Aussie leads 6-4 2-2.
Now then. Felix lost in a forehand and it deserves him 0-30 … at what point a power cut comes in, my photo that returns to see demon still serve but benefit. Comms tells me that he is still trying to touch service winners and auger-aliassy winners, nor particularly successful, and a saletted forehand takes us back to Deuce, for the eighth time in the game.
Oh my God! Demon racet for a volley, is lobed and reacts somehow with its own lob … That is also a twenteer! That is absolutely ridiculous behavior. Felix tries to get it back in a similar style, but can’t, and 15 times quickly turn 15-30, but from there he finds what he has to hold for 4-6 2-1. However, the minaur is now the better player.
A beautiful drop makes 0-15 then, at 40-30, a rare casual fault of the Minaur, a backhand in the net, takes us to avoid. So Felix unleashes a frightening forehand … Only for demon to stay at the point, to switch Momentum and to encourage a frustration error. Seconds later it is well secured for 6-4 1-1.
The problem that Felix has is that he doesn’t want to go too much, But he also does not want to be stuck in long, rallies against someone who is more suitable for them. The thing is, he has enough power to dictate without getting crazy, he just has to withdraw a little, either with strength or with the search for lines … and, while I type, he finds himself a breaking point … making a big serve. A second -class bait wide then deserves benefits … but another error recovers Deuce and from there he sets an important hold. Although the Minaur 6-4 0-1 leads, the feeling is that the game is on the racket of Auger-Aliasses: if his hit works, he will win, and if that is not the case, he does not.
Alex de Minauraur takes the first set against Felix auger-aliassy 6-4
A really bad Miss from Felix, on the backhand with a lot of room to touch, hands over the benefit and a second set point, then a overhit forehand confirms it. Despite the fact that he has not landed any first serve, the minaur leads 6-4 and Felix will rage over his inability to take advantage. The Augur-Aliassime is not good.
Felix makes 15-0 but a big forehand to the Backhand-Hoek-Precuries the kind of Shot demon wants to play the game levels. But he is now struggling a bit on the first service, forced to rely on his legendary collection skills when a flourishing forehand takes control of the rally before he switches the momentum of smart and forces the mistake; 30-15. But another large forehand from Auger-Aliassime is good enough to win the next point and we end up at 5-4 Deuce; This develops into an absorbent battle.
Two aces in the game as Felix makes 40-15, But a jumping animal from a Forehand gives Demon a pinch … Before it is spacious. After a sit-down, the Aussie will serve for the first set at 5-4.
The minaur does enough Saving a huge hold for 5-3 in the first. Felix has to withdraw a little to his forehand, the ability of his opponent to pick him up to do a little too much.
Down 0-15, a bait in the T-levels of the game, then Felix comes in and somehow demon hooks a forehand past him-I think he is leaving and sailing in the line. However, a double repairs parity on 30-all, then a backhand wiped wide pours break-back point; It seems that these two are exceptionally well matched. And although the minaur saves benefit, he is soon confronted with another, a long rally develops, Felix is the lead, but as soon as he drops a ball, he is punished to him and so it is again to worry.
The first is seized via ACE, the second almost like that. But a mistake is then mentioned, during a longer rally, auger-aliassime that runs on every shot around his backhand, he eventually goes long and the minaur has the break, an increase of 4-3 in the first set.
For anyone who wonders why this is not done in the game per game, It is because we have two games and possibly – hopefully – eight hours of action. So to save my common sense, we do it this way and, while I type, Felix pushes a forehand wide to give the minaur 0-30 and the first glimpse of a chance. Which he forces home with a really good backhand along the line, so that three breakpoints are collected in the process …
Two simple conductors; Felix, who leads 3-2, serves beautifully. But can he impress the delivery of the Minaur? The demon has worked hard to put on a little more muscles, so there is now more in his balls, but he works with weaker raw materials than almost everyone in the elite, so it never went beyond the last eight of a major. As we said at the top, this is a huge opportunity for him, because Felix is an opponent that he will defeat himself, while Zverev is in that level of players he rarely beats.
Now an easy guard for Demon, and although it is possible, one of these three tight sets, The feeling is that we sink in for a few hours. Let’s hope that: we have had too many one -sided competitions in the last 10 days and we are a classic. That said, I really enjoyed the throbbing Osaka on Gauff, with Muchova v Kostyuk probably my most enjoyed game so far. In the meantime, Felix nails a bait for 40-30 and then hits a forehand in the corner. But the minaur rimes a moon ball of a lob and the overhead goes into the net; At 1-1 Deuce comes here busy … Quickly lit with a monstrous serve and follow-up overhead. That is really a good sign, given what happened at the previous point, and when the demon nets, he leads 2-1 in the first, on serve.
Auger-Aliassime applies up to 15, Looks pretty good while you do it. He is off the competition and looks good and businesslike. And for extra points he has Daffy Duck on his shirt.
Daffy Duck, what a legend. I can’t say that I don’t enjoy the Smarm and Smartarery from Bugs, though, but in the end Daffy is my boy.
And we’re leaving.
And they come out.
Both players are engaged, get married soon. Mazal TOV, boys.
I think we can look at Felix and say yes, But Zverev has no longer been the same since his Aussie Open Final Ultics, just as Rublev is on its way. And we would be right about: perspective is important. However, he has both taken apart and talks like someone who is ready; Who knows, his time is now.
Oh demon! Ohhhh Maaaaaate!
Someone throws that man a lifelike direction, he drowns.
I really like that Sky finally gave us the right analysis; Ryan Harrison is a great addition to the team. He is currently showing our Anisimova’s footwork of the return, a small hop to the left that open both sides of the field. She was fantastic in persuading Bia Haddad Maia the last round and I really like to make her if he makes it difficult for Swiateek to hardly, and really respect the way she is back after Wimbledon when she might have had pity with herself after folding so publicly. If she plays close to her best today, I think she wins … but Swiateek has the ability to make sure she doesn’t.
I am there a lot in Felix in our first game, Based on the fact that if he plays well, he will have too much for the Minaur, which has a higher soil level, but a lower top level. It is really a form-thing-August-Aliassime has played three great matches in a row and is in the nock of his life. He will be made to play many balls, but has the opportunity to explode with winners, what the demon does not.
Preamble
Yes yes, and welcome to the US Open 2025 – Day 11!
A few years ago a tennis coach mate sent me excited and told me he had seen the future: a child with power and grace that moved more nicer than someone he had seen before. Amazing, he was so good at the age of 16 that the only relevant comparators Boris Becker and Rafael Nadal were.
That child was Felix Auger-Aliassime and, it is honest to say, he did not completely improve as expected. Of course he had weaknesses at the time, especially his second service, his return and his volleying, but even when he received the gift from a Covid -Hiatus to have them sorted, they remained almost the same as always.
Now, at the age of 25, the feeling he is what he is: a bloody good player who will never be Grand Slam champion -whatever his natural gifts are that he is capable of. And yet, and yet, and yet. In the last two rounds, he took into account Alexander Zverev and Andrey Rublev for the loss of only one set, as good as he can play, and in Alex de Minaur an pre -eminent last -like opponent, able to shore and find out and everyone lacks the weapons to dominate. For both men this is a moment, a big quarterfinals against the other the friendly chance that may never come again.
They follow in court is an interchangeable battle of epic proportions. When Iga Swiatek and Amanda met Anisimova met in the final of Wimbledon, the result was a historic 6-0 6-0 humiliation that the American will chase until the day she does and perhaps further. She fought for years, and brought all the usual sacrifices that Sportsfolk made was brave enough to take a break in mental health care, then returned, realized a dream and stood powerless because it was mercilessly destroyed for the world.
On a hard court, however, she will feel like her chances to hit the top of the bouncing, her casual power enough to unrest – even Swiateek who, although she has discovered again in recent months, is not far removed from a large decline in shape and trust. The Wimbledon champion is the favorite, but Anisimova has everything that is needed to encourage her in what an absolute colorful match should be.
Play: 11.30 am Local, 4.30 pm BST
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