Live now! Alexander Zverev loses first set to Pablo Carreño Busta in semifinals tennisnet.com

And this scenario repeats itself. This is how Zverev helps his opponent win the first round.

At the next rally, Zverev mixes well, but hits a backhand unnecessarily. Set point for Carreño Busta!

Carreño Busta’s forehand is dealt. That would be a break ball. But his challenge is successful. So there are two new balls.

So Carreno Busta plays well, and is not able to finish it off. The forehand ball twists in the mesh. 30 both!

Carreño Busta has another chance to save the sentence and yields the first point.

Zverev handles two aces in a row. Then the German advances and pushes on the backhand volley. Zverev thus shortened to 3: 5.

Carreño Busta contributes an incredible amount. Zverev has to gather a lot to play the Asturian.

Then the hamburger achieves a well-placed forehand that only Carreño Busta can handle. With this, Zverev recovers one of the breaks, but now he has to serve with the loss of a set.

So Zverev plays big with the loss of the first set in front of his eyes and lands three break balls. Two of them remain unused.

With his first double fault, Zverev delivers two break balls. The German still defends himself against the first, but not the second. His backhand hardly goes over the net. Double break for Carreño Busta!

Zverev has to play a heavy mid-range ball with his backhand, but then he reacts well and leaves his volley on the sideline.

On his own serve, Zverev starts with two slight errors, making eleven in all. The Spanish has six.

The Spanish takes care of the rest with a good serve repeatedly and makes the 4: 1 without major problems.

Three match balls for Carreño Busta are quickly available again. In the next rally, Zverev has to run a lot, he grabs the stop and plays the backhand very briefly crossed and with a lot of feeling on the field.

But Carreño Busta has a second chance to rest. Now the German puts the rival in good shape and has an open field for the reverse. But it doesn’t really hit them at all. This is the framework, this is how Zverev offers his service.

Zverev has to pass the second, he plays the one of 217 kilometers per hour. Carreño Busta puts his backhand into the net.

So the reverse also fails. And he already faces a first breakball on Zverev.

Zverev reacts to this with his second Ace. A little later there is another long rally, which the German abandons unnecessarily due to a forehand error.

Zverev repeatedly searches for the way forward. However, when it comes to volleyball, the world number seven is still not efficient enough and catches the ball from the Spaniard.

A little later, Carreño Busta flipped his third ball, benefiting from an unnecessary forehand error by the opponent and made it 2-1.

Carreño Busta struggles with his service game and after a backhand error he faces a first break without problems. Zverev can’t use that because his backhand can’t go through the net either.

This time Zverev is looking for his way to the net on his own initiative. Carreño Busta has another chance to pass the ball backhand, but spoils it. Debut!

Zverev is a bit hesitant, he still doesn’t play aggressive enough. Long rallies are certainly not the solution for him. With one stop they put you in line and then they pass you through the Carreño Busta crossing.

This is followed by the longest rally so far, in which Zverev has to do many meters. At least he makes the point. 3:30 pm!

The Hamburger then scores the first point against the serving opponent. Soon after, the 23-year-old builds an attack very well, but he doesn’t hit the backhand volley properly, and as a result misses the point.

Zverev uses the first chance, so he finds the match quite relaxed and draws at 1: 1.

So Zverev succeeds on the first ace of the day. And when the first comes, the German always does. This is shown below. Two game balls!

We are still waiting for the first point from Zverev. At first, that doesn’t work with your own service. 0:15! Then the 23-year-old goes a long way after a first serve and sinks his forehand.

With a good service, the Spaniard can win the match without problems and gets rid of zero. The 29-year-old starts the match very promising.

So the German stretches his right too long. The visor does not seem to be positioned correctly yet, because a backhand is already twisted into the mesh unnecessarily.

Now Carreno Busta opens the game. The first service is coming soon. And Zverev starts with a backhand error.

Our protagonists have just entered the field of Arthur Ashe Stadium. After a few preparatory steps, he meets with head referee Marijana Veljovic to vote online. The coin falls in favor of Zverev, who opts for the reverse. So they both play their part.

For the second time, the two face off on the tennis court. The first meeting took place in 2018. The Miami Masters was also a semi-final, which Zverev won in two sets.

Alexander Zverev already has more to offer. Of his eleven tournament victories, three belong to the Masters series: Roma and Rogers Cup 2017 and Madrid 2018. In that year, the former world No. 3 also triumphed in the ATP Finals, which is his most valuable success. It currently occupies the seventh place in the world ranking. In this season in Crown form, Zverev had done nothing noteworthy apart from the Australian Open semi-finals.

Carreño Busta has not yet found the great titles on his record. Even at the Masters level, he has yet to make it past the semi-finals: Indian Wells 2017, Miami 2018. The Spaniard won all four of his career ATP tour titles in the 250 in Winston-Salem, Moscow (both in 2016), Estoril (2017) and Chengdu (2019). In 2017 it was one of the top 10 (10th). He is currently in 27th position. In 2020, the best results were the quarter-finals in Adelaide (250) and the semi-finals in Rotterdam (500).

For the seventh time since 2014, Pablo Carreño Busta is serving at the US Open. In 2017, the Asturian was already in the semifinals, which is his best Grand Slam result to date. His passage through the tournament began to be difficult. At the start against Yasutaka Uchiyama, the 29-year-old had to go the full distance after two sets back. Then it got easier, against Mitchell Krueger and Ricardas Berankis, the 20-seeded Spaniard did not yield a set, as he did against Novak Djokovic. Here, however, the right-hander benefited from the disqualification of the seeded Serbian at the end of the first round. In the quarterfinals, Carreño Busta defeated Denis Shapovalov, who was seeded 12, for more than four hours in five sets.

So now Alexander Zverev is contesting his second Grand Slam semi-final after the Australian Open earlier in the year and of course he would like to go one step further for the first time. The fifth-seeded German participates at Flushing Meadows for the sixth time since his debut in 2015. So far, the second round of 2019 was considered his best performance. This year, the 23-year-old generally had to play four sets to beat his opponents. So it happened against Kevin Anderson, Brandon Nakashima and Adrian Mannarino. This was followed by the match against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the round of 16, where Zverev played as one piece and won in three sets. This probably best performance in the tournament was followed by the worst appearance. However, the right-hander won the quarter-finals against Borna Coric after falling behind in four sets.

For the first time in a quarter of a century, a German tennis player is in the men’s semifinals of the US Open. The last time a certain Boris Becker had succeeded in doing this, he faced Andre Agassi in the semi-finals in 1995, taking the short glass in four sets. A year earlier, Michael Stich was the last time a German professional reached the final. He was also left behind against Agassi.

Welcome to the US Open for the semifinals between Pablo Carreño Busta and Alexander Zverev.