For the second consecutive major, an American man has reached the semifinals. This time, at the Australian Open, it's Tommy Paul, whose reward is a date with Novak Djokovic. chrisjalmeida and jon_wertheim discuss his path to this point
Before the tournament, on Melbourne sports talk radio, a host was going through the men's top 50, trying to tick every name off from memory. And the one name that he missed was Tommy Paul. Which is sort of symbolic of Paul's career. He was a great junior player but didn't have quite the resume of Taylor Fritz, the backstory of Francis Tiafoe or the conspicuous size of Reilly Opelka. Paul has always sort of fallen through the cracks.
All that said, he now has what is emerging as the biggest challenge in tennis which is beating Novak Djokovic and invested five match in the Southern Hemisphere. After initial concerns about his hamstring injury, Djokovic just played some of the best tennis of his career. He's been just unplayable against top opponents.
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