US Open Day 12 Betting Tips: Best two bets for Men's Semi-Finals

Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka will clash in the women's US Open final on Saturday after overcoming their last-four opponents, but before that we have the men’s semi-finals to look forward to on Friday.

The top three seeds - Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, and Daniil Medvedev - all feature, while we have one surprise player who has made it this far in Ben Shelton!

As always, we have our tennis tipser Max Saakyan on the case.

What a couple of weeks Ben Shelton has had.

The 2022 NCAA (National Collegiate Athletics Association) singles Champion has gone on an unbelievable run at this year's US Open.

The American has had a bizarre year where he's gone 7-18 on tour level matches (discounting Grand Slams), an unbelievably poor record for a player who has just entered the top 20.

But his runs at the Australian Open and now the US Open has solidified him as a threat to everyone.

He reached the quarter-finals earlier this year in Australia, and now the semi finals of the US Open, where he's beaten the likes of Aslan Karatsev, Tommy Paul, and Frances Tiafoe.

Now he faces his greatest challenge yet. He has to beat Novak Djokovic if he is to try and compete for the Grand Slam title.

Djokovic has looked convincing the past few weeks, and is currently on a 10 match winning streak.

He had one slight scare in the third round, when he faced fellow Serb Laslo Djere, where he had to come back from two sets down to secure a place in the round of 16.

I think it's going to be an interesting matchup between Shelton and Djokovic, with Over 31.5 Games priced at 9/10 with UniBet.

The second semi-final is between two players who have experienced Grand Slam glory.

Carlos Alcaraz is the defending champion at this year's US Open, and won Wimbledon just a couple months ago.

Daniil Medvedev is another player who won the US Open the previous year in 2021, where he beat Novak Djokovic in the final and just dropped one set when he won his first-ever major title. That win was historic, with the Russian stopping Novak Djokovic winning the calendar-year Grand Slam. 

Medvedev has gone under the radar due to the dominance of Alcaraz and NDjokovic in the Grand Slams this year, but Medvedev has won the second most titles so far this year, just behind Alcaraz.

The pair have faced each other this year, twice in fact, where Alcaraz won in straight sets with ease on both occasions.

I like Alcaraz's chances to get it done with relative ease again, and Bet365 are offering a very tempting price on the game spread, with Alcaraz -5.5 Games available at 10/11.