Jon Wertheim: 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. But no more! For the second-straight major, there is an American man in the semifinals and this time it's Tommy Paul who, at age 25, is rounding into form.
After a deceptively solid win over Roberto Bautista Agut, Paul beat another American, Ben Shelton, in the quarterfinals, and is now going to turn in the best result of his career. He now gets a date with Novak Djokovic.
Chris Almeida: Tough one.
