The seeded n ° 23, Naomi Osaka, qualified for a quarter-final of the Grand Chelem for the first time since 2021 by buying n ° 3 Coco Gauff 6-3, 6-2 at the US Open 16 of 16 years on Monday in New York.
Osaka won 15 of its 16 first service points (93.8%) and only needed 64 minutes to finish his dismantling of Gauff, the 2023 winner at Billie Jean King Center.
“I was super locked up,” said Osaka in her interview on the field. “I felt like everyone wanted to watch a very good game and I hope that’s what you have.”
It was not a competition from the start when Osaka reached the quarter -finals to a major for the fifth time in his career. She won each of the other four – twice at Australian Open (2019, 2021) and twice at the US Open (2018, 2020).
Osaka zipped the first two games to start a solid opening set. The second set was tied at 2-2 before Osaka put it back from a notch and sail towards the finish.
GAUFF, 21, had a difficult day with 33 uns forked errors and five double defects against only eight winners.
Osaka, 27, will then be facing the n ° 11 Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic. Muchova was a winner 6-3, 6-7 (0), 6-3 against n ° 27 Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine.
Muchova has reached the United States semi-finals in each of the last two years. Muchova and Osaka divided four career meetings, including the last two to the Grand Chelem.
In another action at the beginning of Monday, the second seeded Iga Swiatek in Poland returned to fit, fleeing with a 6-3 victory, 6-1 against the seeded n ° 13 Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia.
After Swiatek was taken to three sets from her second round match and took almost two hours with an equal break to defeat Anna Kalinskaya in the third round, she only needed 64 minutes to qualify for the United States quarters of the United States for the second consecutive year.
Swiatek won seven AS and 21 winners against 11 of Alexandrova in his flight victory.
“I felt like I was really in my bubble, in the area,” said Swiatek. “Sometimes I made risky decisions, and I think I forced the ball to enter.”
While she is trying to win a second big consecutive chelem for the first time in her career after winning the Wimbledon title in July, the 24 -year -old Swiatek became the youngest woman since Maria Sharapova in 2005 to qualify for the quarterfinals in the four Grand Chelem of a single season.
She is looking for her second title of Open US Open after winning in 2022, which remains her only Grand Salm title on hard ground. She won four French openings (2020, 2022-24) with her first Wimbledon this summer.
Swiatek will face the winner of Thursday evening’s confrontation between Amanda Anisimova of the eighth seeded-which she beat 6-0, 6-0 in the Wimbledon final-and n ° 18 Beatriz Haddad Maia, of Brazil, for a place in the semi-finals.
– field level media
