Emma Navarro Upsets Defending Champion Coco Gauff to Reach Quarterfinals

Emma Navaro has done it again Navaro held on late on Sunday afternoon and took advantage of a struggling Coco golf to knock off the defending US Open champion and her Olympic teammate at her first ever match at Arthur Ash Stadium Navaro beat golf 63 46 63 in their fourth round match to earn a spot in the quarterfinals for the first time in her career it also matches her best finish ever at a grand slam it's pretty insane I lost in the first round the last two years years and now to be making quarterfinals is pretty insane Navaro said on the court after her win this is the city I was born in and it feels so special to be playing here Koko is an amazing player and I have a ton of respect for her I know she's going to come back here and win this thing again one year after Goff held on early in their match Navaro flew ahead to take a dominant win in the first set and grab the advantage Navaro jumped up 4 to2 in the first after a string of double faults for Goff before closing out the first set 63 Navaro who was playing her first match ever at Arthur Ash held strong to start the second set too she pushed ahead 4 to3 after claiming three straight points to get the break which had her on the cusp of a quarterfinal birth finally though Goff came alive she tied the set back up after Navaro lost on a double fault and then she won 12 of the last 15 points to even the matchup and and force a third set Navaro got the break early in the final set however after gof picked up her 12th double fault of the afternoon gof made three double faults in the last four po points of the third game and fell behind 3 to one right away G struggles continued as she tried to fight back in it and she picked up three more double faults as Navaro jumped up 4 to3 in the final set from there Navaro quickly closed out the rest of the match to claim the win and reach her second straight Grand Slam quarterfinals Goff had 19 double faults in the match 11 of which came in the final set she had 60 unforced errors too Navaro eliminated gof in the fourth round at Wimbledon earlier this summer to though she was knocked out of the quarterfinals in London by Italy's Jasmine palini gof had to Rally to even make Sunday's match against Navaro to she came storming back to beat Alina Selina after dropping 11 points in a row in the first set of their match on Friday her win there marked her 12th match win at a grand slam after dropping an opening set since she made her debut in 2019 and her 60th major match Victory before her 21st birthday which is something only five other American women have done in history Navaro will now take on Spain's Paula Bosa in the quarterfinals Bosa flew past China's yafan Wang 61 62 in their fourth round match earlier on Sunday

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