Alexei Popyrin’s career-best Grand Slam run at US Open 2024 involves an finish within the fourth spherical.
New York, USA, 2 September 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Alexei Popyrin is holding his head excessive after his beautiful US Open 2024 marketing campaign ended within the fourth spherical.
World No.20 and American favorite Frances Tiafoe proved unstoppable of their Arthur Ashe Stadium showdown, scoring a 6-4 7-6(3) 2-6 6-3 victory.
“It was an excellent match. Excessive-level match, like we anticipated. Two gamers excessive on confidence,” Popyrin mentioned.
“I felt like the primary two units, I got here out, and I felt a bit of bit flat. I attempted to pump myself up. Managed to do it.
“[But] I’m not taking something away from him. He performed some ridiculous tennis. I feel he was the higher participant regardless of how shut it was. I feel he stepped up on the larger factors.”
Popyrin, who fired 24 aces and tallied 55 winners in whole throughout the three-hour and two-minute encounter, was particularly upset to let three set factors slip within the second set.
“I’ve been saying all week that I feel towards these prime gamers it’s a must to take your possibilities when you may have them,” he mentioned.
“I feel if it was one-set all, contemplating how the third set went and the way I discovered a approach to form of neutralise his actually good play, I feel it might have been a bit of bit completely different.”
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The twenty eighth seed conceded “right now luck simply wasn’t actually on my facet”.
“I feel that final sport confirmed all of it,” Popyrin mentioned. “I had a forehand in the midst of the court docket to interrupt him, and I simply missed it. Slipped a bit of bit there on the way in which there, however I hit the online tape, and it didn’t go over.
“However actually, I’m not taking something away from him. He’s enjoying some scary tennis. If he continues it, he has a extremely good probability.”
Though Popyrin acknowledged “it positively does really feel like a bit of alternative misplaced”, he’s happy with his performances throughout the North American summer season.
The 25-year-old from Sydney gained the most important title of his profession on the Montreal Masters final month, changing into the primary Australian in 21 years to say an ATP Masters 1000 singles crown. That efficiency propelled him to a career-high rating of world No.23.
Popyrin then loved his career-best Grand Slam run, reaching a significant fourth spherical for the primary time by upsetting world No.2 Novak Djokovic. That was Popyrin’s sixth top-20 win from his previous three tournaments.
“Should you would have instructed me at first of the summer season I might have been 23 on this planet with a Masters title and second week of a Slam for the primary time, I most likely would have taken it contemplating the place I used to be in,” mentioned Popyrin, who was ranked No.62 a month in the past.
“If I hadn’t gained a match in Montreal or Cincy, I most likely would have dropped to outdoors 90 on this planet. So contemplating all that, I feel it was a really profitable summer season.”
At the very least one Australian continues to be assured to progress to the US Open 2024 males’s singles quarterfinals, with Alex de Minaur and Jordan Thompson going head-to-head in a fourth-round showdown tomorrow.
It’s the first time since 1993 that two Australians are assembly in a males’s singles fourth-round match on the match.
Aussies in motion – US Open
RESULTS
Males’s singles, fourth spherical
[20] Frances Tiafoe (USA) d [28] Alexei Popyrin (AUS) 6-4 7-6(3) 2-6 6-3
> READ: Australians advance to doubles quarterfinals at US Open 2024
COMING UP
Males’s singles, fourth spherical
[10] Alex de Minaur (AUS) v Jordan Thompson (AUS)
> VIEW: US Open 2024 males’s singles draw
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