by Emma Navarro joined a deficit of 5-1 for a 6-2, 7-5 victory against Paula Badosa Spanish in the quarterfinals of the United States on Tuesday.
Navarro goes to the turn of the semi-final on Thursday, the deepest race of the 13th seeded American has ever done during a Grand Chelem tournament. There, she will face the seeded n ° 2 Aryna Sabalenka (Bélarus), who beat the seeded n ° 7 Zheng Qinwen (China), 6-1, 6-2 Tuesday evening.
Navarro is the first of the two Americans who qualified for the semi-final on Tuesday. The seeded n ° 12 Taylor Fritz upset the seeded n ° 4 n ° 4 Alexander Zverev Tuesday afternoon to hit his ticket for the semi-final.
Navarro took early control of the match, breaking Badosa during the first opening service. She then broke Badosa to win the set, 6-2.
The match appeared for a third set after Badosa took early control in the second. Badosa broke the first Navarro service in the Ensemble, then broke it again on the way to a 5-1 advance. But with the New York crowd firmly behind Navarro at the Arthur Ashe stadium, Navarro dominated the rest of the match.
She broke Badosa to reduce her deficit to 5-3 on the way to win the last six games of the match, surprising the Spaniard to end his race at the US Open. Navarro has won 24 of the last 28 points to guarantee victory.
Navarro said after the match she had maintained her confidence even after digging a 5-1 hole in the second set.
“After resuming 5-2, I had a little idea that it could be two sets,” Navarro told ESPN after the match. “I just wanted to stay really hard and stay in there. Even if I lost the second set, I wanted to somehow set the tone for the third set.”
Navarro is now two victories from a US Open title after being eliminated in the first round in each of the previous two years. Tuesday was his second consecutive victory on a seed player after upsetting the US Open reigning champion and the seeded n ° 3 American Coco Gauff as a fourth round player on Sunday.
Navarro and Fritz are the first of the four Americans in the hope of going to the semi-final. The seeded n ° 20 Frances Tiafoe followed suit Tuesday evening with his victory over the seeded n ° 9 Grigor Dimitrov (Bulgaria). Tiafoe will now face Fritz in the American semi-finals, which guarantees that an American will play in the final of a Grand Slam for the first time since 2009.
Wednesday, seeded n ° 6, Jessica Pegula, will face the seeded n ° 1 and the champion of the US Open 2022 IGA świątek (Poland).
