Karolina Muchova outclasses Jasmine Paolini to cruise through to US Open quarter final

ready [Applause] play down the T it's long second serve from 32 in the first set foran return from Muka foran mov again Cross Court and she's won it with a forehand winner a forehand winner from kolina m and she's over the line wow well let's have a quick look at Twitter and then we'll come into the nuts and bolts of this particular match my thoughts are basically this listen the the match turned on its head we had Jasmine palini um up a break at 32 I think what's really important though to remember that at 32 um Muka was actually far more comfortable on her serve than the score line suggested because the two holes she had were just so comfortable for her Pini snatched the break in between okay she takes advantage of that but some of the slicing and dicing at that point at 32 onwards did seem to go the way of Muk Muk I love these comments from snle by the way because that's what it's all about for me is that you can't outplay Muk and it's not surprising because Pete Muk wins the match and we almost had Pete M today we've had almost Peak muker for large parts of this tournament and it was for those reasons that I thought that Peak M which we've seen throughout the tournament if the two players played as they had done throughout the tournament karolina Muk was going to win and that's exactly what happened let's have a quick listen actually to what um got to say right on the biggest stages in tennis that was really impressive work today taking up the world number five can you share with us a little of the game plan and how you feel like you executed today thank you first of all thank you very much um the plan well the plan what was the plan C you don't want to say too much I know the plan was um trying to play my game honestly I was a little bit say I was a little bit nervous from the start so I just was a little bit windy as wellit windy today she was a bit nervous she lost just five points on her serve huge lots of those points coming in just one game of course just lost five points on serve in the whole match that dealing with theist injury I know you've been through injury before did you always believe that you would be back here playing your best tennis um at those time I I didn't really think of what's what's going to happen honestly this was my worst and most serious injury I would say but yeah I mean I love the sport so in my head I was like I do everything I could to she's really grateful for all the support and help that she's had over the last 12 months and we were barely seen her on the court since that semifinal of last year all right I can see Damian backstage so I'll turn off Carolina M and we'll uh get Damian forward maybe I'll plug in my earphones as well do you want me to bring you forward Damian because maybe you're on your phone I'm gonna put my earphones in yeah I think I need to bring It Forward yeah now I'm fine yeah I was trying to get my camera to work um in a bit of a different setup at the moment but yeah it's fine now okay so obviously we've just seen M um I mean I'm I'm tempted to say the word destroy Jasmine power I think snill brings up some really good points and these were my pre-match thoughts that basically Peak mova which we've seen during spells of this tournament particularly against Osaka beats Peak palini and I don't know if Pini has any answers to that and I don't think she did today yeah and I think that actually goes for a lot of players in the wte tour right I mean mova just has such a wide skill set she can pretty much do it all um I think this event even has been like really helpful for us in terms of understanding that you know she probably Mor I are onaka before their match in the second round yeah and she's just brilliant in there obviously she should have lost the second set that I'm I'm kind of not disagreeing with that but she's absolutely brilliant in there and yeah I mean she's got so much more tools than so many more tools than Pini and um yeah just purely like strictly tennis quality wise yeah I I don't think it's close so if she plays well and I think since going down a bit early yeah maybe wouldn't call it destruction but certainly it was pretty comprehensive display as well which is great because like you you want to see her follow this up right you don't want to have her play one good match and then either struggle with herself or or I don't know just just not repeat it right now she's doing it and yeah she's pretty much as dangerous as anyone else I think in this event we've barely seen her on a core I know she's had a few matches but we've barely seen her you know seriously on a coure I know I think she I think she's reached one final but let's talk about big tournaments since that US Open semifinal last year which is as memorable for people gluing themselves to the to the stadium if you remember that match against Coco go and it's just it's so good to see her back I just didn't think we'd get this level as soon as we have I thought I hoped we'd get six months of injury three kolina Muka and we'd see a steady steady incline but for her to win that match against Osaka Propel herself to a second consecutive US Open quarterfinal for me is is just out of this world I think she's playing better this US Open than last year honestly like I remember last year I wasn't really thinking of her as like a you know true winning Contender and now I think she is one so yeah I I just believe that she's actually stronger at the moment and uh is does it come super early kind of I mean she returned in like what June or something like that right so well it's been some time but yeah it's been like this I guess the entire career of mova she just comes back and she kind of reminds you right away that healthy she is you know top 10 at least and um and yeah that's what she's been doing here who is she gonna play the quarters think to say I no I was thinking I'm just doing I know what it is in the top I mean at the top youer no no because you schneer going against good news good news the battle of the of the pushers wasaki had admire ah wasaki had admire yeah that's amazing that's amazing for car yeah I I really like her chances to get to the semis yeah um me too um and I'd be I mean actually these two players I mean I'm more I'm more aware of had admire being in the draw because of that controversial moment the other day wasaki I don't think I've seen a single minute of her match yeah because Baki has won her matches like 6262 except and it's it's impressive but she also had the easiest possible draw to get to the fourth round like really you couldn't come up with a better one yeah yeah I thought hibino ponet and zarazua I think if memorys right yeah I mean she hasn't repaced anyone dangerous anyone with weapons today so if she was playing um I mean I know Selina is not someone with weapons but I think they had a pretty good match last year and or she was playing coco or she was playing SA or someone I would have probably tuned in or at least been aware of what's going on but yes she slipped into this this round four she may even slip into the quarterfinals but um Mo against either of those two players will be a very big Clash of styles yeah I mean her that Maya does not have to play like vaki does all the time I think she's a lot more um well she mixes up her play style more depending on the level of confidence depending on a lot of things but yeah I mean mova is the favorite against either so that's that's really good for her and yeah I would I would agree with SN that yeah Osaka porin are are more dangerous opponents maybe stylistically maybe faki is going to cause some issues to moova I don't actually know how mova handles players like this but I mean she can approach the net she can kind of slice her way out of stuff probably she's gonna do fine I mean it's tough not to be like really high on Kina mova right now yeah and she's a better mover as well unless unless she just has an off day this match today whether or not I want to move on just very quickly to palini and then and then bring this to a close because I know we've got to do another recording ourselves um but um uh just this match I mean to remind those that are just tuning in if they're just looking for some analysis is we had you know basically wasn't the sorry um I'm getting confused M was so comfortable on serve throughout the match except one game she lost five points I think on serving the entire game her her two service holds of of either side of being broken I think were to last and it was just that service game in between that gave us a match but then she wins four games in a row introducing some of that incredible style and and that was the difference and the second set didn't have many breakpoint opportunities until halfway through and then she ends up breaking twice to get the job done palini I want to have one final word on her uh which is I don't really know where we go I was worried for her with those particularly the second slam final that she had this year at Wimbledon I thought she's probably got to win today because I mean I know I don't want to get carried away with someone who's I think 28 years old but you know you're probably in the second half of your career at that stage and with what she has she has to strike and she struck in in Dubai I think it was at that 1,000 this year um and that's great she struck well when she had the opportunity to get to the French Open final but what are you going to do you're coming up against one of if not someone who's going to go on to become the greatest play qu of all time at least on the women's side nothing you can do there and although I don't rate her as highly on grass as I do on clay that was probably her chance at Wimbledon and I I think we're now probably we're going back to the norm if you like with with this sort of fourth round exit yeah I mean it let's not be greedy regarding her I mean she's had an awesome season uh don't know if it's going to be repeated I mean probably not just because you know there's like a low let's say averages and I would assume that it doesn't happen every month for her from now on but yeah certainly Wimbledon was a big chance just because well she also faced another opponent in the mova style where like if Cova is playing at her best there's not much she can do really however clearly there was there were opportunities in that final so um yeah I mean she's just had an awesome year the fourth round here it's still a great result before this year she was never in even a third round at a grand slam but yeah I mean you can't really do much sometimes and then actually Jose is right here that like Talent of mova is just unfair to Pini in a way and um there's not much can do sometimes yeah and I mean there there's only there's only a few players in the world that can sort of play their own game I mean two of them are definitely left in the draw so that's the bad news for her and one of them is on her side but the good news is she won't be playing seon potentially until the semi-finals uh at least um if you enjoyed this video make sure you hit that like button don't forget to subscribe and click that notification Bell so you don't miss out on all things tennis