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Daniil Medvedev has reached his third career Grand Slam final, and the form he showed on Friday could propel him to his first title.
The world number 2 dominated Canada’s Felix Auger-Allassime in a 6-4, 7-5, 6-2 victory to reach his second US Open final in three years. He will face the winner of Friday’s other semi-final between No.1 seed Novak Djokovic and No.4 seed Alexander Zverev.
The first set was a tidy affair for Medvedev, who got the only break of the set by making four consecutive Auger-Allassime errors, two forced and two unforced. Auger-Allassime was set to react in the second set, coming up 5-2 with two set points as Medvedev served. Medvedev responded with some of his best tennis in the tournament, winning five straight games to go up 2-0.
“He had two set points, so the only thing I was thinking about was ‘Don’t make an ace on the line, please, and I’ll get you playing,’ Medvedev said after the game. 5-4, I knew that now was a very important point of the game … because it’s a moment where I could break it mentally, and that’s what happened.
As the Russian said, Auger-Allassime was essentially finished in the third set, breaking twice earlier to end the deepest Grand Slam run of the 21-year-old’s career.
The game numbers as a whole paint a picture of Medvedev’s dominance, whose movement and shooting was on another level on Friday. He beat Auger-Allassime 12-4, recorded six fewer double faults, won 81 percent of his first serve points, earned his five break points and registered 37 winners with 25 unforced errors.
Six matches after his run at the US Open, Medvedev has lost just one set.
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