the french Caroline Garcia cut the American flight this Tuesday Coco Gauff and qualified for the semifinals of US Openwhere it will be measured in Tunisian To Jaber.
Garcia, the recent champion in Cincinnati, defeated Gauff 6-3, 6-4, who at age 18 was playing in his first quarterfinal in New York.
The Frenchwoman, one of the best players on the WTA circuit, reached the semi-finals of a ‘major’ for the first time in her career and was the first player from her country to get that far in New York since she did this. Amélie Mauresmo in 2006.
She is the third Frenchwoman to reach the semi-finals at Flushing Meadows, along with Mauresmo Mary Pierce.
Garcia, the player with the most winning serves this year on the women’s circuit, can return to the group of the ten best tennis players in the rankings starting next Monday.
Garcia was playing extraordinary tennis and didn’t give off the atmosphere of an Arthur Ashe overturned Gauff, but started flawlessly, aggressive on the return and strong on the serve.
Less than twenty minutes in, the Frenchwoman escaped to 4-0, pushing a Gauff who made repeated unforced errors to the limit. His reaction at 0-4 in the light allowed him to recover one of the two breaks, but it was not enough to avoid losing the set 6-3.
Garcia, who came into this event having lost only twenty games in four rounds, continued to play aggressive tennis and soon put the second set down.
He earned the ‘break’ in the opening game and defended it until protecting, with his serve, his ticket to the semifinals.
Jabeur leads him 2-0
García will face Jabeur in the semifinals, the first African player to reach this round at the US Open, after his quarterfinal victory over the Australian. Ajla Tomljanovic.
Jabeur, this year’s champion in Madrid and Berlin and finalist at Wimbledon, won 6-4 and 7-6(4) against Tomljanovic, who in this tournament has been the executioner of the American. Serena Williams.
The Tunisian player has won two precedents against Garcia, both in the ‘big’. He won the 2019 US Open and 2020 Australian Open.
On the other side of the table, the quarterfinals will be played this Wednesday, with duels between the Polish Iga Swiateknumber one in the world, and the American Jessica Pegulaand between Czech Karolina Pliskova and the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka.
The women’s semifinals will be played this Thursday and the final on Saturday, September 10.
Source: La Verdad
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