No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka surrendered simply three video games to her opponent Qinwen Zheng on Tuesday evening in reaching the US Open semifinals for a second straight 12 months.
The quarterfinal that includes Sabalenka and No. 7 Zheng — a rematch of January’s Australian Open ultimate — was the primary matchup between gamers ranked within the high 10 on the ladies’s aspect at this 12 months’s US Open.
The 6-1, 6-2 win secured Sabalenka a gathering with American Emma Navarro on Thursday.
Sabalenka improved to 9-1 in main quarterfinals, the second-best win share amongst girls for the reason that Open period started in 1968 (min. 10 matches). Her 9 main semifinal appearances for the reason that begin of 2021 lead all girls’s gamers over that span.
The three video games gained by Zheng, the Olympic singles gold medalist, had been her fewest in a Grand Slam match. She made solely 44% of her first serves.
Sabalenka, who got here out on high in Melbourne and was final 12 months’s runner-up at Flushing Meadows, is making an attempt to grow to be the fifth totally different lady to win the Australian Open and US Open in the identical 12 months since 1988, when the Aussie Open turned a hardcourt occasion.
She would be part of Steffi Graf (1988, 1989), Monica Seles (1991, 1992), Martina Hingis (1997) and Angelique Kerber (2016).
ESPN Stats & Data contributed to this report.
