[Music] against Taylor Fritz on Tuesday Francis tifo ensured an All-American semi-final match at the US Open ensuring a home player in the men's final for the first time in 18 years after ninth ranked Gregor dimitrov sustained an injury in the third set of their quarterfinal match and retired in the fourth with the score at 663 57 6341 tifo the 20th SE Advanced tifo also Advanced to the 2022 semi-finals while Fritz Advanced to his first Grand Slam round of four after defeating fourth ranked and 2020 runner up Alexander ver of 76 7 ti 36 64 76 7 th playing in his first US Open semi-final since 2019 dimitrov 33 injured himself in the third set and left the court to get medical attention in a last ditch effort to save the game the B Aran came back but his chances of winning were lost and he could only walk it's not the way I wanted to win even if I'm happy to get through to the semi-finals tifo remarked it was a very competitive game it will be exciting to see me take on another American since we've known one another since we were 14 this will be the biggest match of our careers when he won the US Open in 2003 Andy rodic became the last male American to win a grand slam championship ship when Roger Federer beat him in the 2006 title match he became the last domestic player to reach the New York finals the men's single semi-final match between tifo and Fritz on Friday will feature an All-American field for the first time since Andre agasi beat Robbie janri in the 2005 Us open in the first set tifo broke demitro to lead 3-2 and then sealed the victory on a fourth Set Point Ford demitro battled back in the seventh game the Americans had pushed to a 3-1 lead in the second to end the set imro served double faults on two of his three set points in an odd way then like his opponent yafo double failed on the third set to even the quarterfinal at one set a piece for dimitro it was as good as it got as his challenge evaporated when he was hurt in the third