Pegula Upsets Swiatek; Sinner to Face Draper in US Open Semis

at the end of the final Grand Slam Tournament of her breakthrough 2022 season Jessica pegula found herself in a familiar painful position she had reached the quarterfinals at three of the four majors that year but on each occasion she was defeated by the top seed after another loss to igos fadc at the US Open pegila arrived at her press conference sipping a can of beer I'm trying to be for doing she said although it does help ease the loss that moment which immediately went viral was a perfect example of the good-natured way that pegula has handled one of the most frustrating struggles of her career and inability to reach a grand slam semi-final it would take two more years and a total of six painful quarterfinal defeats before she achieved her goal finally in a perfect full circle moment pegula reached her first career Grand Slam semi-final at the SOP by topping s Tech the world no one 6 - 2 6 - 4 I've lost so many freaking times I just kept losing she said afterwards but to great players to girls who went on and won the tournament I know everyone kept asking me about winning a quarter final but I was like I don't know what else to do I just need to get there again and win the match thank God I was able to do it and finally finally I can say I am a semi-finalist in the men's draw Janik sinner the top seed is the only Grand Slam Champion remaining after he set up a semifinal with Great Britain's Jack Draper by out playing Daniel medet 6us 2 1 - 6 6 -1 6 -4 and a turbulent tussle that finished just before midnight in New York by defeating the world no one sixth seated pegula joins her compatriots Emma Navaro Taylor Fritz and Francis tyo in the semi-finals this is the first time that multiple as players have reached the seus in both the women's and men's's open draws since 2003 pegula will next face the unseated Carol MF who reached semi-finals last year before undergoing surgery at the beginning of the Season muchi defeated beer trees had had meas 6 to1 6 - 4 earlier on Thursday pular play to composed solid match showing her tactical nass by cutting off sw's angles by smothering the pole with deep flat Central ground strokes and patiently waiting for her moments to attack she also moved brilliantly soaking up sw's first strike well while pegula played a brilliant match and held her nerve at the end it was an atrocious performance from s who struggled badly with her serve and could not find her timing from the very beginning she finished a disappointing night with her 41st unforced error of the night I've had many tournaments where I didn't serve well and I managed to win anyway she said but I probably didn't find the right solution because I couldn't push with my serve also I wasn't that solid from the Baseline to have a backup like that you're not going to win if you make so many mistakes and I made those it's on me despite how wide open the men's draw has been with the early exits of Novak jokovic and Carlos alcaras that openness did not affect the top quarter where the last to remaining major Champions battled for a third time at the Grand Slams this year after cner recovered from to sets down to win his first Grand Slam title over Medvedev at the Australian Open Medvedev exacted his revenge with a five- set win in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon this encounter was far less dramatic sner flooded out of the blocks in the first set overpowering Med with his enormous pace and weight of shot off both ground strokes as his defense also made it difficult for medet to consistently put the ball past him after CER rolled through the opening set the match swung wildly in the other direction as MedVet of played Focus tennis and cers intensity sharply dropped then it swung back again across the four sets as the momentum swung back and forth the combined force of C's devastating ground strokes and defense were too much for mvv who generally played below par in a match that required his very best tennis midv departed Arthur Ash Stadium having struck 57 unforced errors and he was well beaten by the no one player it was very tough said sinner we know each other quite well we played in Australia and London we knew it was going to be very physical it was strange the first two sets because whoever got the first break rolled but I'm really happy C has now reached the semifinals of all for Grand Slam tournaments in his career he is the fourth active player and the only man under 35 to do so after Rafal madal Novak jovic and Marin silik he has also reached the semifinals at three of the for Majors this year an interesting battle with Draper comes next the pair are both 22 they faced each other as Juniors and have become good friends on the ATP Tour they recently played doubles together at the Canadian open we know each other very well sin said we are good friends off the court so it's going to be a tough one he's playing incredible he hasn't lost one set yet so he's playing very very good so let's see what's coming I'm just happy to be in the Semus and let's see who can play better in a couple of days

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