#ustrend #webstory Jannik Sinner beats Daniil Medvedev and reaches the semifinals of the US Open #darakhonline

NEW YORK – Top seed Jannik Sinner used his aggressive, hard-hitting style to reach the U.S. Open semifinals for the first time, defeating 2021 champion Daniil Medvedev 6-2, 1-6,

6-1, 6-4 on Wednesday night.Sinner, a 23-year-old Italian who was cleared of a doping case less than a week before the start of the US Open after testing positive twice for traces

of an anabolic steroid in March, will face Britain's Jack Draper (seeded 25) on Friday for a place in the title match. Draper won the only match between the two at the Queen's Club

in 2021.Following the exits of Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz in Week 1, Sinner took the lead as title favorite and is now the only man in the field still holding a Grand Slam

trophy. He claimed his first victory in January at the Australian Open, beating Medvedev in the final in five sets after losing the first two.Editor's recommendations2

relativesThis encounter was unusually turbulent, as they each took turns dominating a set.At first, Sinner was the dominant player. Then Medvedev took over that role, finishing

second to Djokovic at Flushing Meadows last year and Rafael Nadal in 2019. Then Sinner regained the upper hand in the third set. In the fourth set, at 3-3, Sinner fought back,

fending off two break points and then breaking Medvedev to take a 5-3 lead."We know each other pretty well. ... We knew it was going to be very physical," said Sinner, who lost to

Medvedev in five sets at Wimbledon in July. "The first two sets were strange because whoever got the first break then got going."The key: Sinner won the point on 28 of his 33

attempts to the net, including 9 of 11 serve-and-volley attempts."We've worked really hard on that aspect of the game," Sinner said. "We've just tried to add more variety to the

game."Medvedev was particularly inconsistent. He had just one winner less than Sinner, but made 19 more unforced errors."Sometimes you feel like you're doing everything well, but

then you miss and you have question marks and so on," Medvedev said. "Maybe today I tried a little more risky shots and missed a little more. As I said, at some point I got lost in

my misses."Sinner is the third Italian to reach the semifinals of the US Open since the beginning of the Open Era in 1968, following Corrado Barazzutti (1977) and Matteo Berrettini

(2019). He is also the fourth youngest man in the Open Era to reach the semifinals of all four majors, only Djokovic, Nadal and Jim Courier have done better.Medvedev lost 9-2 in

the quarterfinals of his career at the majors, with the only other loss coming at the 2021 French Open to Stefanos Tsitsipas. His elimination means that no former US Open winner is