With the knee! This is how Heliovaara broke his racket, unleashed all his anger in the quarterfinals of the US Open

Another broken racket and, this time, missing a match point in a very close quarter-final that went to a super tie-break. The mixed doubles pair formed by Anna Danilina and Harri Heliovaara, who are defending their US Open title after being champions of the last edition (2023), were left with no prospect of a ticket to the semifinals.

The Finn and the Kazakh started as slight favorites to face Sutjiadi and Bopanna in the last match before the final, but Taylor Townsend and Donald Young showed good rapport and defeated the previous winners in a tiebreaker.

The first set was won by the pair formed by the Finnish tennis player and the Kazakh in a tie-break (7-6), but the American reaction to the second taking the quarterfinals to a tiebreaker after winning 3-6.

After reaching these heights, the stars challenged each other to advance to the mixed doubles semifinals of the US Open in too much tiebreak, contested until the first pair to score 10 points versus two. Despite starting ahead (3-1), the Americans overturned the final deficit, punching their ticket to the semifinals at a painful 7-7 during the super tie-break.

At 7-9 in favor of Townsend and Young, the Finnish tennis player Harri Heliovaaraeleventh in the ATP doubles ranking, He took out all his anger by smashing his own racket with his knee. after it hits the net. Their run ended in a final loss and the American couple’s passage to the semifinals of the US Open.

In search of a place in the final, Taylor Townsend and Donald Young they will measure themselves like the Indonesian Aldila Sutjiadi and the Indian Rohan Bopannawho recently managed to reach number one in the doubles ranking at the age of 43. It is currently ranked fourth.