World No. 7 Ruud, seeded fifth in the tournament, defeated Italian Mateo Berrettini (ATP No. 14) 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) in the quarterfinals, reaching his second Grand Slam semifinal this year. Until this stage, the 23-year-old Norwegian was also in the French Open Championship, where he was also able to reach the final.
Ruda’s opponent in the semi-finals of the US Open will be the neutral athlete Khachanovs (ATP 31st), who has never reached the semi-finals of a Grand Slam tournament.
In the quarterfinals, the 26-year-old Khachanov beat the Australian tennis player Nick Kyrie (ATP 25th), who defeated the leader of the ATP ranking in the previous round, in a tough fight 7-5, 4-6, 7-5, 6-7 (3:7), 6-4 neutral tennis player Daniil Medvedev.
“This was a crazy match, exactly as I expected,” Khachanov said after the victory. “I’m ready to run and fight for five sets. We played for almost four hours and that’s the only way to beat Nick [Kiri].”
In the remaining quarterfinal matches today, the neutral athlete Andrejs Rublyov (ATP 11th) will meet the host Francis Tiafoe (ATP 26th), while the Spaniard Carlos Alcaras (ATP 4th), seeded with the third number, will compete with the Italian Janika Sinera (ATP 13th)
The US Open tennis championship on the hard surface takes place from August 29 to September 11.
