NEW YORK — Frances Tiafoe returned to the US Open quarterfinals for the third straight yr, beating Alexei Popyrin 6-4, 7-6 (3), 2-6, 6-3 on Sunday night time.
The No. 20 seed will try and match the most effective Grand Slam results of his profession when he faces No. 9 seed Grigor Dimitrov on Tuesday for a berth within the semifinals.
Tiafoe misplaced to eventual champion Carlos Alcaraz in that spherical in 2022 and was eradicated final yr within the quarterfinals by Ben Shelton.
Tiafoe is the primary American man to succeed in three consecutive US Open quarterfinals since Andy Roddick from 2006 to 2008.
The match turned late within the second set, when Popyrin was serving with a 5-3 lead and was some extent away from night it at one set apiece. Tiafoe received the subsequent 5 factors to interrupt and shortly took management of the tiebreaker by leaping to a 4-1 lead.
Popyrin, the No. 28 seed from Australia, upset defending champion Novak Djokovic on Friday to succeed in the fourth spherical of a Grand Slam for the primary time.
