Historic march: A. Karatsev, the rookie of the Big Cross tournaments, reached the semifinals of the Australian Open and will meet the winner of the pair of N. Djokovičius and A. Zverev

Russian rookie continues her impressive march at the prestigious Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne, Australia Aslanas Karatsevas (ATP-114), which ended in the quarterfinals at 2 pm 28 min. 2: 6, 6: 4, 6: 1, 6: 2 ndefeated the favorite Bulgarian Grigorą Dimitrovą (ATP-21) and became the first modern-era male player to reach the semifinals in the already debuting Great Accent series tournament.

G.Dimitrov looked much better at the start of the match, but already at the beginning of the third set he slowed down considerably and this limited his endurance capacity.

“It’s an incredible feeling, it’s my first ‘Big Accent’ tournament, the first semi-final, it’s incredible,” Karatsev said after the match.

After the third set, G.Dimitrov asked for a medical break and tried to combat the obvious back pain. Although the former third world racket did not withdraw from the match, her condition did not improve, so it was no longer possible to take her opponent more seriously in the last two sets.

“From the beginning, it was very difficult for me to keep my nerves calm. I tried to find ways to compete with him, and then he got back pain, “Karatsev said.

A.Karatsevo interviu:

Karatsev made up to 19 unprovoked errors in the first set. However, when he saved five break points in the second set, he began to set the pace for the match himself. Although he also made 15 unprovoked errors in the second set, he found an answer to G. Dimitrov’s game at the same time.

On the way to the semi-finals, Karatsev lost just 3 sets, two of them in the fourth round, when he lost the Felix Auger-Aliassime two-set lead.

Earlier, at the age of 27, A. Karatsev tried to enter all nine tournaments of the “Big Accent” series, but something was always missing. Now he has become the second man in all of history to reach the semifinals in his debut tournament, and before that, in 1977, only Bob Giltinan did.

Match review:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FamPtgX_8HM

In the semifinals, A. Karatsev will face a Serbian Novak Djokovic (ATP-1) and German Alexanderio Zverevo (ATP-7) winner of the pair.

The total prize fund of the Australian Open is up to 80 million. Australian dollars (approximately 51 million euros).

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