{"id":160205,"date":"2020-09-12T03:56:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T01:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/09\/12\/daniil-medvedev-v-dominic-thiem-us-open-mens-semi-final-live\/"},"modified":"2020-09-12T03:56:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T01:56:49","slug":"daniil-medvedev-v-dominic-thiem-us-open-mens-semi-final-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=160205","title":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev v Dominic Thiem: US Open men's semi-final \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updates from the second semi-final at Arthur Ashe StadiumOsaka v Azarenka: two champions but can be only one winnerTweet Bryan at @BryanAGraham or email him 2.56am BST Thiem has taken a medical timeout ahead of the third set. He said he felt something in his achilles when he took a spill earlier in the second.Medvedev will need to make a bit of history if he wants to return to final: he\u2019s winless in six career five-set matches and has never won from two sets down. 2.49am BST Second-set tiebreak: Medvedev 6-8 ThiemThiem wins the opening point on his serve, then Medvedev does the same in outlasting his opponent out a bruising 33-ball rally for 1-all. Medvedev then goes down a minibreak with an unforced error early in an exchange, but Thiem gives the minibreak back with a miscue of his own a few points later for 3-2. Both men hold their next six service points until Thiem faces set point serving at 5-6. He holds it with a 117mph first serve out wide that Medvedev can\u2019t get back in play, then wins the next point on a Medvedev unforced error. Now it\u2019s Medvedev facing a set point serving at 6-7. He saves it with a 123mph unreturnable serve, but Thiem pounces on a very poor drop shot on the next point for the crucial minibreak. Serving at 7-6 for the set, Thiem flummoxes Medvedev with an inside-out forehand\/forehand down the line combo to win the point and stake a commanding two-sets-to-none lead!Two sets for ThiemWill Medvedev extend this to a 4th? #USOpen pic.twitter.com\/0QqiTeLpNS Continue reading…
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Updates from the second semi-final at Arthur Ashe StadiumOsaka v Azarenka: two champions but can be only one winnerTweet Bryan at @BryanAGraham or email him 2.56am BST Thiem has taken a medical timeout ahead of the third set. He said he felt something in his achilles when he took a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}