Alcaraz ruled Speers’ Jiri Lehecka in the dormitory, with the Spaniards not losing their set at this year’s event yet.
Released on September 3, 2025
Second seed Carlos Alkaraz has yet to drop the set of Flushing Meadows and is cruising to the US Open semi-finals by destroying the Czech Girilehecca 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Alkaraz fired 28 winners on Tuesday, holding the crowd in the palm of his hand as he didn’t face a breakpoint. He will then play 24 major winner Novak Djokovic in the Blockbuster semi-finals on Friday.
Lehecca is one of the few players to beat Alcaraz this season, winning the Doha quarter-finals, but this time he watched the top and was able to helplessly see the Spanish forehand winner being choked at match points.
“If you show a fresh guy, you can play two, three, three hours to have a long meeting and it’s giving him a mindset, which would be really difficult,” Alkaraz said.
“In the way I walk between points, with attitude – I’m fresh, I’m really good physically. I think it’s really important to show the other person that they sweat a lot.
Alkaraz broke in the first match, rescued along the way with a pair of double faults in Lehecca, and the Spaniard won in a thrilling cat and mouse exchange in the net in 10 matches, sending backhand winners past the Czech Republic.
The 2022 champions kept momentum in two sets, transforming net breakpoints in the first game, and Lehecca visibly upset as he went down another break with double obstacles in his seventh game.
Alcaraz smiled at mistrust as he nailed a series of accurate shots to set a breakpoint in the seventh game of the final set, but Lehecca delved into a deeper hold.
Alcaraz won the 12-shot rally at the breakpoint of the game for the ninth game, and the golf swing celebrations were held to please 2017 Masters champion Sergio Garcia who was in attendance.
“I just really, or almost – the perfect match,” he said. “I feel good and hungry to make it.”
The five-time major winner has only broken once in the tournament so far, and has managed to seize the number one world ranking from Italian Janik Thinner, but he tries not to think about it.
“If I think too much about the number one spot, I’m going to put pressure on myself, and I don’t want to,” he said.
