As anticipated, Individuals Ben Shelton and Francis Tiafoe are scheduled to play at 7 PM Jap Daylight Time on Friday within the U.S. Open Males’s Semifinals. The primary semifinal between high seed Alexander Zverev and unseeded Karen Khachanov is scheduled to start no sooner than 3 PM EDT.
The Khachanov-Zverev match is the second on Arthur Ashe Stadium on Friday. Prime-seeded Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend will play Individuals Ashlyn Krueger and Robin Montgomery within the Girls’s Doubles remaining at midday. An extended match within the ladies’s doubles remaining might impression the beginning for Khachanov and Zverev. Conversely, if Khachanov and Zverev play past three hours, Shelton and Tiafoe would begin late.
The lads’s semifinals flipped from historically scheduling gamers with two days’ relaxation within the first semifinal and gamers with at some point of relaxation to play at night time. Shelton and Tiafoe enjoying in prime time was the straightforward scheduling choice for the USTA.
Zverev might be relieved to be enjoying a day match.
All of Zverev’s 2026 U.S. Open matches ended previous midnight by way of the primary 4 rounds. Zverev earned a straight-sets win within the quarterfinals that he accomplished at 10:20 PM. After five-set matches within the first two rounds, Zverev received his final three matches in straight units.
