the Czech tennis player Karolina Muchova (10) defeated Romanian Sorana Cirstea (30) on Tuesday and qualified for the semifinals of the US Open, where he will face the American Coco Gauff (6).
Muchova closed out her quarterfinal match with authority by 6-0 and 6-3 in one hour and 37 minutes.
the czech has experienced a spectacular rise in recent monthsSo at this point in 2022 he is number 235 in the world and has been eliminated in the first round of the New York ‘big’.
Now she is in the ‘top 10’ of the WTA and this year he was a finalist at Roland Garros.
Muchova will have a tough match in the semifinals against Gauff, only 19 years old, who is playing at an amazing level in this ‘grand slam’ and is also one of the current favorite players of the local Flushing Meadows fans.
Gauff swept her quarterfinal match on Tuesday, defeating Latvian Jelena Ostapenko (21) 6-0, 6-2 in one hour and eight minutes.
“He is very athletic. Never give up. Run to every ball. He is not wrong. he seems to have all the lumps. He is a very good player in all aspects,” Muchova explained in a press conference about her next opponent.
The Czech has been aware of Gauff’s potential since the American beat him less than two weeks ago in the final of the Cincinnati Masters 1,000.
On the other side of the table, the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka (2), that at the end of this tournament he will be the new number one in the ranking instead of the Polish Iga Swiatek (1), He will face Chinese Qinwen Zheng (23) in the quarterfinals this Wednesday.
The winner of that match will face off in the semifinals with the winner of the match between the Czechs Marketa Vondrousova (9) and the American Madison Keys (17).
Source: La Verdad
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