Us Open Tennis 2025: Auger-aliassime V De Minaur, Anisimova V Swiatek On Day 11 – Live

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I powerfully fancy Felix successful our first match, connected nan ground that if he plays well, he’ll person excessively overmuch for De Minaur, who has a higher bottommost level but a little apical level. It’s a shape point really – Auger-Aliassime has played 3 awesome matches successful a statement and is successful nan nock of his life. He’ll beryllium made to play a batch of balls, but has nan expertise to detonate pinch winners, which nan Demon does not.

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Yes yes ya’ll and invited to nan US Open 2025 – time 11!

Some years agone now, a tennis coach mate messaged maine excitedly, telling maine he’d seen nan future: a kid pinch powerfulness and grace who moved much beautifully than anyone he’d seen before. Amazingly, truthful bully was he astatine 16 that nan only applicable comparators were Boris Becker and Rafael Nadal.

That kid was Felix Auger-Aliassime and, it’s adjacent to say, he hasn’t rather progressed arsenic expected. Of people he had weaknesses backmost then, astir peculiarly his 2nd serve, his return and his volleying, but moreover erstwhile granted nan gift of a Covid hiatus to get them sorted, they stayed beautiful overmuch nan aforesaid arsenic they ever were.

Now, astatine 25, nan consciousness is that he is what he is: a bloody bully subordinate who’ll ne'er beryllium expansive slam champion – immoderate his earthy gifts insist he’s tin of. And yet, and yet, and yet. In nan past 2 rounds, he’s accounted for Alexander Zverev and Andrey Rublev for nan nonaccomplishment of conscionable 1 set, playing adjacent to arsenic good arsenic he can, and successful Alex de Minaur finds an eminently beatable last-eight opponent, capable to scurry and retrieve arsenic good arsenic anyone connected tour, but lacking nan weapons to dominate. For some men, this is simply a moment, a awesome quarter-final against nan different nan benignant chance that whitethorn ne'er travel information again.

Following them connected to tribunal is simply a redemption conflict of epic proportions. When Iga Swiatek and Amanda Anisimova met successful nan Wimbledon final, nan consequence was a historical 6-0 6-0 humiliation that will haunt nan American until nan time she does and possibly beyond. She fought for years, making each nan accustomed sacrifices sportsfolk do, was brave capable to return a intelligence wellness break, past returned, realised a dream, and stood powerless arsenic it was mercilessly devastated successful beforehand of nan world.

On a difficult court, though, she’ll fancy her chances of hitting astatine nan apical of nan bounce, her casual powerfulness capable to disquiet anyone – moreover Swiatek who, though she’s rediscovered herself successful caller months, is not acold removed from a awesome downturn successful shape and confidence. The Wimbledon champ is nan favourite, but Anisimova has everything required to get aft her successful what should beryllium an perfectly banging contest.

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