{"id":486526,"date":"2024-09-04T02:59:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T06:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486526"},"modified":"2024-09-04T02:59:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T06:59:15","slug":"fritz-and-tiafoe-set-up-all-american-semi-final-at-the-us-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/fritz-and-tiafoe-set-up-all-american-semi-final-at-the-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Fritz and Tiafoe set up all-American semi-final at the US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Tiafoe has set up an eagerly anticipated all-American semi-final showdown against Taylor Fritz at the US Open, promising an epic battle between two childhood friends with contrasting personalities but shared ambitions. Both players are looking to end a long Grand Slam drought for American men.<\/p>\n<p>Tiafoe advanced to the first all-American Grand Slam semi-final since 2005 after Grigor Dimitrov retired due to injury, trailing 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-3, 4-1. Earlier in the day, Fritz secured his spot by defeating Alexander Zverev 7-6(2), 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(4).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">TAYLOR FRITZ REACHES HIS MAIDEN GRAND SLAM SEMIFINAL ON HOME SOIL! \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EmaHC2GFOO\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/EmaHC2GFOO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 US Open Tennis (@usopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen\/status\/1831080897946206263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The winner of Friday&#8217;s semi-final will have the chance to become the first American man to reach a Grand Slam final since Andy Roddick, who last made it to a major final at Wimbledon in 2009 and was the last US player to win a men\u2019s Grand Slam title in New York in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Tiafoe, who made it to the semi-finals at Flushing Meadows in 2022, noted the contrast between his and Fritz\u2019s personalities ahead of their clash. \u201cWe\u2019re on opposite ends of the spectrum,\u201d said Tiafoe, the 20th seed. Despite having won only one of his seven encounters with Fritz, Tiafoe hopes the support of the crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium will give him the edge.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ht\">Taylor Fritz. Frances Tiafoe.<\/p>\n<p>Cinema \ud83c\udf7f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#USOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YuGhxdLuAe\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YuGhxdLuAe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1831180385041985912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Tiafoe has set up an eagerly anticipated all-American semi-final showdown against Taylor Fritz at the US Open, promising an epic battle between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":486527,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18257,17410,4051],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[19703,18177,1891],"acf":{"announce":"They eliminated Alexander Zverev and Grigor Dimitrov, as the Bulgarian retired with injury","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486528,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486526\/revisions\/486528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486526"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486526"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}