{"id":17168,"date":"2021-09-08T10:23:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T04:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=147375"},"modified":"2021-09-08T10:23:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T04:53:28","slug":"us-open-felix-auger-aliassime-enters-semi-finals-as-carlos-alcaraz-walkover-following-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/us-open-felix-auger-aliassime-enters-semi-finals-as-carlos-alcaraz-walkover-following-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open: Felix Auger-Aliassime enters semi-finals as Carlos Alcaraz walkover following injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Felix Auger-Aliassime has moved into the U.S. Open semi-finals earlier today due to the young Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz retiring due to injury mid-game. The match was halted at 6-3,3-1 with the advantage to the Canadian.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FAA: making history for \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PjdLHNWt7D\">pic.twitter.com\/PjdLHNWt7D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 US Open Tennis (@usopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen\/status\/1435429543532240896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alcaraz kept his cool as Auger-Aliassime took the first set. The Canadian continued his momentum into the next set to build a 3-1 advantage. As Alcaraz prepared to serve, he showed signs of distress and indicated that he could not go on to continue the game. <\/span>\u201cI don\u2019t know what happened, I didn\u2019t see it coming. I thought we were putting on a good show.\u201d Auger-Aliassime said in an on-court interview, reports Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz became the youngest U.S. Open quarterfinalist in63. The history run written by the Spanish youngster could not go further due to his right thigh issue due to a long-lasting succession of tough games. <span>\u201cBefore the match, I felt it, I start the match controlling the pain. At the beginning of the second set it started to (increase), the pain,\u201d said <\/span><span>Alcaraz<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After coming off from back-to-back gruelling matches of five sets and a very impressive fight in the third round to pick up a hard-fought victory over world number 3 Stefanos Tsitsipas, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alcaraz took to the court with his legs heavily strapped as he also looked less energized compared to his games before that got him into the quarter-finals tie. <\/span>Auger-Aliassime is now scheduled to face the Russian Daniil Medvedev in the semi-finals this weekend on the 11th of September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felix Auger-Aliassime gets into the semi-finals due to a walkover in the quarter-finals as Carlos Alcaraz retired from the game due to injury. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":37914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2668,2221,202,335,2606],"class_list":["post-17168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-felix-auger-aliassime","tag-tennis","tag-us-open","tag-us-open-2021"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}