Daniil Medvedev points warning about US Open warmth after quarterfinal win over Andrey Rublev

Daniil Medvedev says the new and humid circumstances on the US Open have the potential to be “harmful” for gamers after he booked a berth within the males’s semifinals.

On one other steamy day with temperatures hovering above 30 levels Celsius in New York, Medvedev bought previous fellow Russian Andrey Rublev in straight units, successful 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 in slightly below three hours.

He’ll meet world primary Carlos Alcaraz within the semifinal, after final yr’s winner beat Alexander Zverev 6-3. 6-2, 6-4.

At one stage between factors throughout the third set, Medvedev complained to an on-court digital camera inside Arthur Ashe Stadium whereas wiping off sweat: “You can’t think about, one participant goes to die after which they will see.”

After the match, the 2021 US Open males’s champion mentioned he would have been nervous about his and Rublev’s welfare had the match gone the gap to 5 units.

“We left every little thing on the market,” Medvedev mentioned.

“The one factor that may be a little bit … harmful, is that the query is: how far may we go?”

The US Open this yr has experimented with partially closing the roofs of their stadiums to supply extra shade throughout day matches.

However not like the Australian Open, the event has no coverage permitting for the suspension of play as a consequence of excessive warmth.

Medvedev mentioned he doesn’t have the solutions however needed to be on the document as saying he was involved.

“Most likely we can’t cease the event for 4 days as a result of … then it mainly ruins every little thing, the TV, even the tickets,” mentioned Medvedev, who’s the lads’s third seed.

“May we go to 3 units when the circumstances are like this? Additionally some guys usually are not going to be pleased.

Rublev bought the competition off to a quick begin, grabbing the early break for a 3-0 lead, however Medvedev hit again, sweeping six of the following seven video games to assert the set.

With the brutal circumstances stopping each gamers from discovering any rhythm, the breaks got here quick and livid within the subsequent two units.

Twice within the second set they’d commerce breaks earlier than Medvedev once more was capable of achieve the higher hand with another break.

Regardless of the straight-sets scoreline, the match got here to an entertaining end with Rublev serving at 5-4 down within the third and making an attempt to increase the competition.

He saved 4 match factors earlier than Medvedev lastly ended proceedings.

Alcaraz breezes previous Zverev

Medvedev will subsequent face males’s world primary and defending champion Alcaraz, who beat an exhausted Zverev in straight units.

In little over two and a half hours, the 20-year-old proved far to sturdy for the 2020 US Open runner-up, who had spent over 14 hours on court docket in his first 4 matches at Flushing Meadows — and it caught up with the German.

Alcaraz confronted the primary break factors of the match at 3-3 within the first, however as he has been capable of do all yr he held earlier than gained a break himself within the very subsequent recreation.

After holding the following recreation, he gained the set, and by no means appeared again.

Alcaraz saved all 5 break factors he confronted and transformed all 4 he earned on Zverev’s serve.

On a sweltering night, Alcaraz confirmed off a number of elements of his diversified recreation in opposition to Zverev.

The highly effective forehands that elicit gasps from the gang. The fragile drop photographs. The hammered returns. The all-court speedy protection. The willingness to attempt — and talent to succeed on — photographs others wouldn’t even contemplate.

“I have been making an attempt to do totally different photographs that in all probability the gang usually are not used to seeing within the matches … That is what I am making an attempt — to place a present on,” mentioned Alcaraz, who’s 58-6 with six titles in 2023, each tour highs.