The 6ft 6in German goes on to hold. Handy to have a big serve at that height.

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GB Davis Cup captain on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

It will be tough for the men to match the drama of the women's semi-finals - or the quality.

These are both very tough matches to call.

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Gorgeous forehand winner down the line from PCB - pumped it with ferocity.

0-15.

Fair to say Zverev has not found his line and length. Similar to how I was playing early on on Thursday.

PCB holds to love. Easy peasy.

Here we go.

They've only played the once prior to today.

It was a sunny day on the hard court in Miami two years ago - Zverev won in two.

Now I personally don't know what 'pat-a-cake tennis' is. All I know is that pat-a-cake was sang in a nursery rhyme involving a baker which you sang in sync with clapping and slapping the palms of someone else. Entirely pointless, but wasted a few seconds.

Anyway, tennis great Martina Navratilova blamed Alexander Zverev for playing pat-a-cake tennis in the four setter against Borna Coric, which saw him lose the opener then win the next three (two of them on tie-breaks). Pat-a-cake, in this sense, meant with a lack of aggression. However, Navratilova meant he lacked aggression at the start of the match. That, apparently, was not fully conveyed by the journo to Zverev, to the annoyance of Navartilova.

When told about Navratilova's initial comments, the German said: "Maybe she should look at my record against the big guys. Maybe she should look that I'm positive against Roger (Federer). Maybe she should look that. "I've beaten Novak (Djokovic) on multiple occasions in big matches and finals."

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake baker's man...

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The players are out on Arthur Ashe.

Here's Carreno Busta: "I'm a better player than three years ago. Sascha is a very good player with a good serve. I have to be solid from the baseline."

And here's Zverev: "Pablo is probably playing the best tennis of his life so I have to play well."

Thanks both.

Anyway, I played my first 'match' in about 20+ years yesterday, at the lovely Tyldesley courts. Not blowing my own trumpet, but had I stuck with the sport after tennis summer school at Gosforth High...

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She might be 36 (obviously nothing wrong with that) but Vera Zvonareva turned back the clock to win her first Slam doubles title since 2012!!

The Russian and Laura Siegemund of Germany - an unseeded pair - defeated number three seeds Nicole Melichar of the United States and Xu Yifan of China 6-4 6-4.

Prior to the tournament Zvonareva and Siegemund had never played together!!

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He's overcome compatriot Gordon Reid and now he's seen off second seed Gustavo Fernandez of Argentina to reach the wheelchair final.

Alfie Hewett is going for an incredible third successive title, although he was made to fight for his win by Fernandez who roared back in the second set to take the match to a decider. But 22-year-old (yes, he's only 22!!) found his level again to seal victory.

Sadly for Hewett he now faces Japan's top seed Shingo Kunieda in - although he did beat him two years ago to win his first Flushing Meadows title.

Somebody once coined, you have to be "in it, to win it"... actually I think that was The National Lottery... anyway regarding the situation of Carreno Busta's progress - aided by Novak Djokovic inadvertently sending a ball towards a line judge - he suggested that hard work prior to the tournament has helped him get to this stage.

"I think I'm very comfortable on these courts," said the former world number 10.

"I think the last few months during quarantine were very, very tough for everybody. But I worked very hard with my coach. When you work hard, normally the results arrive.

"Maybe not always in the first tournament or on the second, and I was a bit lucky and now I am in the semi-final."

We all need a bit of luck from time to time Pablo my son.

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Spain's 20th seed (the world number 27) Pablo Carreno Busta is probably wondering what on earth he's doing in this year's US Open semis.

Ever since he reached the French quarters and the last four at Flushing Meadows three years ago, his ranking has taken a wee dip and he has failed to venture past the fourth round of any Slam... until now.

He faces a formidable task in trying to overcome German powerhouse Alexander Zverev, who defeated Borna Coric in four sets last time out.

The number five seed was fancied to make the final by many before the start of the tournament and looks set to do so. Although the last time I wrote something similar about a US Open match involving Carreno Busta, the Spaniard advanced without even playing a set.

Pray for this match to be free of THAT sort of drama.