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The US Open is one of the four Grand Slam tournaments and is held annually in New York on hard courts.
Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz has reached the fourth round of the US Open.
In the third round match, Alcaraz beat the Chinese Wu Yibing with a score of 6:3, 6:4, 6:1.
MOSCOW, September 4 - RIA Novosti. The third racket of the world, Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, reached the fourth round of the US Open tennis championship, which takes place on the hard courts of New York.
In the third round match, second seeded Alcaraz beat Chinese Wu Yibing with a score of 6:3, 6:4, 6:1. The duration of the meeting was 2 hours 20 minutes.

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