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US Open rocked by major upset as Nadal loses - CtrlF.XYZ

US Open rocked by major upset as Nadal loses

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Frances Tiafoe ended Rafael Nadal's 22-match winning streak astatine expansive slam tournaments by beating the 22-time large champion 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 successful the US Open's 4th round.

Tiafoe is simply a 24-year-old from Maryland who is seeded 22nd astatine Flushing Meadows and reached the 2nd large 4th last of his career.

He is the youngest American antheral to get that acold astatine the US Open since Andy Roddick successful 2006, but this was not a lawsuit of a one-sided assemblage backing 1 of its own. Nadal is astir arsenic fashionable arsenic it gets successful tennis and heard plentifulness of enactment successful Arthur Ashe Stadium arsenic the measurement raised aft the retractable extortion was unopen successful the 4th set.

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"I don't adjacent cognize what to accidental close now. I'm beyond happy. I can't judge it," said Tiafoe, who faces No.9 effect Andrey Rublev next. "He's 1 of the top of each time. I played unbelievable tennis today, but I don't adjacent cognize what happened."

Here's what happened: Tiafoe served amended than No.2 effect Nadal. More surprisingly, helium returned better, too. And helium kept his cool, remained successful the infinitesimal and ne'er fto the stakes oregon the hostile get to him. Nadal had won some of their erstwhile matches, and each acceptable they played, too.

"Well done for him," Nadal said. "He was amended than me."

This astonishment came a time aft 1 of Tiafoe's pals, Nick Kyrgios, eliminated No.1 effect and defending champion Daniil Medvedev.

Nadal won the Australian Open successful January and the French Open successful June. Then helium made it to the semi finals astatine Wimbledon successful July earlier withdrawing from that tourney due to the fact that of a torn abdominal muscle; that does not spell into the books arsenic a loss, due to the fact that helium pulled retired earlier the match.

The 36-year-old from Spain competed lone erstwhile successful the 1 1/2 months betwixt leaving the All England Club and arriving successful New York portion recovering from that injury. His play has not been up to his accustomed standards astatine the US Open, which helium has won 4 times, peculiarly his serve.

Nadal tweaked his work motion, tossing the shot little than helium usually does truthful arsenic not to enactment arsenic overmuch strain connected his midsection portion reaching with his racquet. There were plentifulness of signs Monday that his service is conscionable not successful tip-top shape: 9 double-faults, a first-serve percent hovering astir 50 per cent, 5 breaks by Tiafoe.

The next-to-last interruption came for a 4-3 borderline successful the 4th set, erstwhile Nadal enactment a backhand into the net, and Tiafoe skipped backward toward the sideline for the ensuing changeover, his fist raised. Fifteen minutes later, Tiafoe broke again, and it was over.

When 1 past backhand by Nadal recovered the net, Tiafoe enactment his hands connected his head. When helium sat successful his sideline chair, helium buried his look successful a towel.

There were signs of occupation for Nadal earlier successful the tournament. He mislaid the archetypal acceptable of his first-round match. Did the aforesaid successful the 2nd round, erstwhile helium besides accidentally chopped the span of his chemoreceptor and made himself dizzy erstwhile the borderline of his racket framework bounced disconnected the tribunal and caught him successful the look connected a backhand follow-through.

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