{"id":169618,"date":"2025-09-06T00:15:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T22:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=169618"},"modified":"2025-09-06T00:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T22:34:21","slug":"alcaraz-stops-novak-in-us-open-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/alcaraz-stops-novak-in-us-open-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz stops Novak in US Open semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak will not play for his fifth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usopen.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Open<\/a> title on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the semi-finals of the US Open, Novak Djokovic fell to Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, the tournament\u2019s second seed, in straight sets 4-6, 6-7 (4), 2-6.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match lasted two hours and 23 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz broke Novak\u2019s serve in the very first game, which turned out to be key for winning the first set. Novak had a few chances to break back, but couldn\u2019t take them, and Alcaraz went up 1-0 in sets.<\/p>\n<p>The second set was full of excitement. Novak got his first break and led 3-0, but Alcaraz quickly bounced back to level the score. The set was decided in a dramatic tie-break, where Alcaraz kept his cool and went up 2-0 in sets.<\/p>\n<p>In the third set, Novak looked noticeably tired. Alcaraz broke again in the fourth game to lead 3-1 and then closed it out 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (4-7), double faults (4-2), winners (15-31), unforced errors (28-30), total points won (81-98).<\/p>\n<p>With this win, Alcaraz narrowed Novak\u2019s lead in their H2H matches to 5-4.<\/p>\n<p>It is still unknown which tournament is next for the Serbian star.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the semi-finals of the US Open, Novak was defeated by Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, the tournament\u2019s second seed, in straight sets: 4-6, 6-7 (4), 2-6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":169614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010469,101012298,101010433,101013485,101011960],"class_list":["post-169618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-new-york-en","tag-semifinal-en","tag-us-open-2025-en","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169618"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169627,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169618\/revisions\/169627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}