Emma Navarro vs. Aryna Sabalenka Condensed Match | 2024 US Open Semifinal

has got to defend her second serve and has got to figure out a way to get a lot of returns in play that's what she said to Pam TR twice right [Applause] every shot mentality second serve returns rally shot it doesn't matter the bigger the point the bigger she [Applause] goes you know what I mean well I was a power player so I'm going to take a little offense to that different angles we might even see some serving volleys May in the second one who HOV up against last night we saw eish fante that out of whack from her Nar would love a little bit of that help tonight it's only as an adult that she's learned how [Applause] to 82 mph second serve and the ball about [Applause] this the break pretty much she broke herself Blan [Applause] felt like such a big game that third game start this first set but what a great job of rebounding to get a break back zalanka is she's up three love Navaro able to make a dent in that last return game this and it's so easy to get intimidated by sabalenka in how she plays the game where she stands sometimes how loud she is love to see that Emma is just focused right now on her game you told me about him Lindy but then I got a while ago mayor yeah exactly you've known him a while wow I just met him game is is it's great to see player coach relationship with the long-term Vision even from when she was a junior how are we going to get better what kind of shots can we develop letting her go to college spent two years at the University of Virginia by a usopen.org anything you want to know about this tournament go [Applause] there 5 saala part of the summer is long gone [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] 43 game beautiful place 110 mil love the fting [Applause] love the [Applause] Ping game [Applause] wow [Applause] shot 15 all great anticipation from Navaro doing what she could to get the return back into play not a bad play from sabil Lanka but great defense of that backhand corner by Navaro [Applause] it's such a good angle players an exceptional scrambling from Nar even state in this rally a half volley angle winner was not what we had predicted from that one second serve [Applause] just so well measured sabalenka at plus three Mary she is playing exceptional tennis Navaro is playing well in doing everything she can to extend these rallies doing everything she can to extend these rallies but when saval Lanka is is not making it's so tough to keep up with [Applause] her just got right now 15 1 [Music] 13 stay in the set [Applause] a game n first a for Naro [Applause] [Applause] I mean who goes 10 or6 oh 98 sorry second serve she needed that one to crawl over instead set points for savena game and first set saena second set 15 love [Music] 3 unable to the first service game in the first set this [Applause] 15 [Music] 11 1 [Applause] [Applause] 14 got to take that second serve away and it's so hard expansive [Applause] [Applause] 15 15 all holding would be nice sank was near perfect against jessicaa in that final in Cincinnati sometimes Power Players don't put pressure [Applause] C got it end up falling in and opening up the court for this backhand here good transition from behind the Baseline to moving forward team liked [Music] it what Navara showed us in that last game is what Peter SS wants thear to play look 15 [Music] 11 by the way em did not know [Applause] [Music] [Applause] 4 G [Applause] sa l love setting 15 that's had tons to get behind yet with Navaro seink has did a nice job of keeping them pretty silent for errors we saw that stat a couple of points ago and force errors this one's a quot harded 86 mph winner but Force errors are much closer to Winners than unforced errors game s em andar is going to try to figure out a way to stop this love the [Applause] [Applause] 305 out some as well she also won some finals game sa how plus pressure that's de in Pura in her first love Grand Slam semi-final new territory for Pula as well she's got a better chance 13 coming [Music] in 1513 [Applause] [Applause] 15 14 304 [Applause] Advantage Navaro a placement has been there also for sa tonight Advantage na G [Applause] [Music] 15 tried to get her there with a mix of p slce and then a drive and Seena did not miss that one by much 1 [Applause] 15 30 on May it was in the semi-finals last year s bla was down 6053 to Madison Keys completed that comeback with a couple of tie breaks in the second and third set completely different situation here can Nar will be the one that fights [Applause] back game sabalenka it's three for sabalenka she does that less and less I've noticed yeah 15 L 3 some errors make themselves hurt def to borrow holes oh that a terrible 88 mph serve 89 mph but love the [Applause] [Applause] she do it right here [Applause] [Applause] there now she's got the crowd it's five games worth of errors [Applause] [Applause] 2 25 game for the first time in this semifinal 15 love [Applause] [Applause] 14 15 got make another unfor eror and because of that Navaro had plenty of time to catch up to this backhand to make the pass [Applause] game sinka [Applause] the slice just fell Way Too Short from Navaro that either has to be low Mar or na two [Applause] on ah points for the B [Music] Russian and both points on the Navaro [Applause] serve 4 to saal five straight points in this tie break [Applause] set the match by two sets love 6276 the heavyweight beats the middleweight second set got complicated got a little interesting right ly yeah aaro two points away from winning that set at 65 but sabalenka up 6353