Ruud's 55-Shot Rally Thrills Crowd

NEW YORK: A 55-shot, marathon rally brought fans to their feet in Flushing Meadows on Friday but nearly leveled the two men who lived through it, Norwegian Casper Ruud and Russian Karen Khachanov, competing in their US Open semi-final.

Fifth seed Ruud overcame Khachanov to reach his second Grand Slam championship match this year but said it took a Herculean effort after clinching the first-set tiebreak in the longest rally of the tournament by far.

"After the set point when I won the first set, we are both probably like dying because we're out of breath. At least I felt my knees or my legs were sort of shaking. I felt like - what do you call it - the liquid acid in the quads especially," he said.

The Grand Slam stage is no stranger to epic rallies, with a 71-shot thriller at the 2013 Australian Open between France's Gilles Simon and Gael Monfils.

Ruud and Khachanov's exchange far exceeded the second-longest rally of the tournament, a 36-shot battle in the third round between Russian Daniil Medvedev and China's Wu Yibing, according to tournament organizers. Agencies

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