A day after Taylor Fritz, Frances Tiafoe and Emma Navarro punched their tickets into the 2024 U.S. Open semifinals, Jessica Pegula followed suit by besting World No. 1 Iga Swiatek of their quarterfinal tie on Wednesday.
The sequence of outcomes meant that 4 of the eight semifinalists at this 12 months’s U.S. Open might be from the host nation — a feat not achieved by American-born gamers for the reason that 2003 version of the most important.
On the 2003 U.S. Open, solely one of many 4 People superior to play for the trophy, with Lindsay Davenport, Jennifer Capriati and Andre Agassi struggling losses of their semifinal matches. Nevertheless, the one participant who superior, Andy Roddick, beat Juan Carlos Ferrero within the remaining to seize his first slam. By the way, his win marked the final time an American man gained any main, not to mention the U.S. Open.
This 12 months, one American man is guaranteed to be in the final, with Fritz and Tiafoe set to collide in an all-American semifinal on Friday. There is not any such assure on the ladies’s aspect as Navarro and Pegula face robust assessments in opposition to World No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka and Karolina Muchova, respectively, within the semifinals.
In keeping with oddsmakers, Sabalenka and Pegula are favored to win their respective semifinals, which means there’s an opportunity no less than one American man and girl will vie for the trophies this weekend.
Pegula — who enters her first main semifinal — already has an opponent in thoughts for her potential remaining on Saturday. In an interview with ESPN’s “SC with SVP,” Pegula revealed she was “impressed” to make the ultimate 4 after watching Fritz, Tiafoe and Navarro holding their finish of the cut price a day earlier.
“I hope we are able to make it an all-American remaining. That will be completely wonderful,” Pegula mentioned after her win on Wednesday. “I am tremendous excited for the lads’s aspect, too. To have the ability to see these guys — I’ve performed plenty of occasions with them and know them rather well. They undoubtedly impressed me, in addition to Emma, to attempt to get by way of right now [against Swiatek]. I am simply completely satisfied I used to be in a position to safe that fourth spot.”
Pegula and Navarro will play their semifinal matches within the evening classes at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Thursday. On the lads’s aspect, Fritz and Tiafoe will collide at 7 p.m. ET on Friday.
