US Open final 2023 LIVE: Djokovic v Medvedev latest updates in New York

If Medvedev defeats Djokovic this night to win his 2d grand slam, he would transfer to 7,390 issues in the Pepperstone ATP Live Race To Turin.

It would go away an opening of 785 issues to Alcaraz in first and 755 of Djokovic in 2d.

Medvedev is a former champion on the final two ATP 1000 occasions at the calendar: Rolex Shanghai Masters (2019) and the Rolex Paris Masters (2020).

“He played a really, really great game. I couldn’t find solutions,” Alcaraz stated. “I thought that right now I am a better player [who can] find solutions when the match is not going in the right direction for you. But after this match, I’m going to change my mind. I’m not mature enough to handle these kind of matches. So I have to learn from that.

“He played with more speed in his shots. I think the running forehand was great today. Probably with the slice in the previous matches helped me a lot to find my own game, but today I couldn’t.

“He found great directions with his shots, no mistakes, great serve today. 10 out of 10, as he said… He’s one of the best returners on the Tour. That obviously is amazing how he can return from the back of the court really deep and really powerful. When I do serve and volley, he always finds the passing shot from from his house (laughter).”

“I tend to play aggressive, fast, I serve well,” stated Medvedev when driven on his good fortune at Flushing Meadows.

“Probably the speed of the court helps me. For example, Indian Wells, that I got to the final was amazing, because I basically can’t hit the ball there.

“It has nothing to do with my forehand, so I beat some good guys there, some good matches, but as soon as I got someone like Carlos with his style of play, it was kind of over for me.”

“I understand every time in a Grand Slam final, it’s another shot for history,” stated Djokovic. “I’m aware of it, and of course I’m very proud of it, but I don’t have much time, nor do I allow myself to reflect on these things or think about the history too much in this sense.

“When I did that in the past, like the 2021 final here, I was maybe overwhelmed with the occasion and the opportunity, and I underperformed.

“I don’t want this to happen again, and I’ll try to just focus on what needs to be done and tactically prepare myself for that match.”

“I think the only way I can use [the 2021 final] is thinking that Novak, when he loses, he’s never the same after. He’s different. It’s just a different mentality,” stated Medvedev after dumping Carlos Alcaraz out. “That’s why he has 23 Grand Slams, [all those] Masters 1000s and weeks at No. 1.

“So I have to use it knowing that he’s going to be 10 times better than he was that day, and I have to be, if I want to still beat him, 10 times better than I was that day. That’s what I’m going to try to do.”

Novak Djokovic has a 9-5 document all-time in opposition to Daniil Medvedev. The Serbian was once crushed in their closing assembly even though, a immediately units, exhausting court docket defeat to the Russian in Dubai.

That snapped a four-game win streak for Djokovic, who will hope to wreck the 1-1 grand slam final document between the pair.

After Djokovic’s win in the Australian Open final two years in the past, Medvedev squared the document in New York later that yr.

Aryna Sabalenka’s bid to bookend her yr with a 2d Grand Slam name fell aside in the U.S. Open final on Saturday however the incoming international primary stated she is going to get each convenience and motivation from her lofty perch atop the arena ratings.

Sabalenka will overtake Poland’s Iga Swiatek when the brand new ratings are up to date on Monday and the Belarusian admitted her new standing will assist ease the edge of her U.S. Open final loss to American youngster Coco Gauff.

“Yeah, that’s why probably, that’s why I’m not super depressed right now,” Sabalenka stated when requested to mirror on changing into international primary for the primary time. “I’m definitely going for a drink tonight if I’m allowed to say that,” a smiling Sabalenka added. “Yes, we are athletes, but sometimes we are drinking, but not much.”

The 25-year-old Sabalenka was once the second one seed in New York and dropped only one set in her march to the final the place she took keep watch over early and broke Gauff thrice en path to grabbing the primary set. But 6th seed Gauff flashed her outstanding velocity to increase rallies and controlled to drive a deciding set the place her sport reached some other degree and proved an excessive amount of for Sabalenka.

“I was overthinking and I was missing quite, like, not easy balls, but the balls I shouldn’t be missing,” stated Sabalenka. “Today it was more about — not more about, it was unforced errors was a lot in the second set, and that’s where I gave her believe that she can win this match. I got overemotional after the second set.”

“The whole time I was saying to myself, ‘Oh, my goodness, how is this real?’” Gauff advised journalists.

“When I sat down after hugging them back before the ceremony, it felt real in that moment, but when I was going to hug them it didn’t. I almost forgot to shake the ref’s hand. It was a crazy moment.

“People were putting a lot of pressure on me to win. I felt that at 15 I had to win a slam at 15. I felt like I had a time limit on when I should win one, and if I won one after a certain age it wouldn’t be an achievement.

“Yeah, it’s just crazy the amount of things that I have heard or seen about myself, but I’m really happy of how I’ve been able to manage it all.”

Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz has pulled out from this month’s Davis Cup to get well following his U.S. Open semi-final loss, the arena primary stated on Saturday.

Alcaraz, the protecting champion at New York, exited this yr’s final main after struggling a defeat to 3rd seed Daniil Medvedev of Russia on Friday. Alcaraz, 20, can be changed by way of Albert Ramos-Vinolas in the Spain squad.

“I was really looking forward to playing for Spain at the Davis Cup in Valencia, but I have to listen to my body after a very long tour,” Alcaraz stated on messaging platform X, previously referred to as Twitter. “I need to stop and rest, physically and mentally. The schedule is very demanding; there is still a long season ahead, and now it’s time to recharge my batteries. Best of luck to the Spanish team! I will be supporting you strongly! Let’s go!”

The 35-year-old Ramos-Vinolas, lately ranked 88th, has been known as by way of captain David Ferrer, who gained the Davis Cup as a participant on 3 events with Spain, lifting the trophy in 2008, 2009 and 2011, in addition to a runners-up end in 2012.

“Ramos was already called up for last year’s Final eight in Malaga. This year he has been a finalist in Gstaad and a semi-finalist in Cordoba, as well as reaching the quarter-finals in Rio de Janeiro and the ATP Challenger in Parma,” the rustic’s tennis federation (RFET) stated in a observation. “In Davis Cup he has played five Davis Cup ties with a record of six wins and only two defeats.”

Sixteen groups will compete in the gang degree from Sept. 12-17 throughout Bologna, Manchester, Valencia and Split. The best two groups from each and every workforce will qualify for the knock-out degree from Nov. 21-26 in Malaga.

Spain will play Serbia, the Czech Republic and South Korea in Group C in Valencia.

Emma Raducanu finished her fairytale in New York by way of profitable the US Open singles name on nowadays in 2021.

The 18-year-old produced one of the crucial largest wearing shocks of all time when she beat Leylah Fernandez 6-4 6-3 in the final. Playing in simply her 2d grand slam match, the 18-year-old from Kent gained all 20 units she performed in qualifying and the primary draw to grow to be the primary British lady to win a grand slam singles name since Virginia Wade lifted the Wimbledon trophy in 1977.

Raducanu was once sitting her A Levels little greater than 3 months up to now and had no longer performed a aggressive fit for greater than a yr however she burst onto the massive degree like no person ahead of her. Her success was once exceptional. No qualifier had ever reached a slam final ahead of whilst she turned into the primary lady ever to win a name in as few as two tournaments, and the youngest since Maria Sharapova triumphed at Wimbledon in 2004.

“I’m still just so shocked, still in the moment,” she stated straight away afterwards. “I can’t believe I came through that last service game. It honestly means absolutely everything to hold this trophy. I just don’t want to let go.

“Yesterday and this morning there were a few weird feelings that I couldn’t put my finger on, I didn’t know what it was, but I think that’s just normal and when I came out on court I felt completely at home, business as usual, I was just focusing one point at a time. I think the level was extremely high, both of us were playing unbelievable tennis. I had to fight really hard to cling onto that first set and then just keep my nose in front in the second.”

Raducanu’s victory noticed her reach nice industrial good fortune, incomes profitable partnerships with a bunch of top-end manufacturers equivalent to Dior, Porsche and Evian. But good fortune at the court docket has no longer been as simple to return by way of and her profession has stalled since her not going win, with accidents critically limiting any growth.