US Open Women’s Semifals: Amanda Anisimova proceeds to a victory for the Grand Slam redemption
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Day 12, the women’s semi-finals produced two exciting games, while a great rivalry in wheelchair tennis resumed Flushing Meadows.
Redemption for Anisimova, once again
THE Amanda Anisimova The redemption tour takes place.
Not happy to exorcise the ghosts from his 6-0 defeat, 6-0 against Iga świątek in the Wimbledon final, Anisimova returned from a heartbreaking defeat in a break in equality of the first set to beat Naomi Osaka 6-7 (4), 7-6 (3), 6-3 in the early hours this morning.
He sets up a We open Final against Aryna Sabalenka, the defending champion in New York and the Anisimova player amazed for the right to face świątek in this Wimbledon final which turned into a nightmarish rout.
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At the end of the second set at the Arthur Ashe stadium, Anisimova looked spent. It raised for oxygen after almost all points. But she continued to cringe, and as Osaka slipped, suddenly missing the court on four consecutive points during the second equality break, Anisimova jumped:
The shots of anisimova had the same icy rope warranty which had passed it świątek in the quarterfinals.
His services fired in the field, forcing Osaka on her heels.
And when Osaka, the quadruple champion of the Grand Chelem on a mission to regain his old form, had to run a second service in the box, Anisimova nailed them for the winners with the authority of someone on a mission.
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A night when no player was her best, both playing a day after a remarkable victory in the quarter -finals, Osaka was initially a little cleaner, especially in great moments – just as she could be when she dominated this sport five, six and seven years old.
Anisimova tried to retreat, breaking Osaka immediately to open the second set. Osaka immediately returned with a break. This model took place almost all night, with Anisimova broke immediately after breaking four times out of five.
Until it really matters when Anisimova summoned confidence that seemed to desert it.
She had the chance to serve him at 5-3, with the few thousand fans who stayed up to 1 hour. Anisimova composed, desperately refusing to give Osaka all the openings. His setback on the line, which she had abandoned after a few failures at the start of the match, even when he shouted to be struck, brought him to 30-0 with an amazing that Osaka could only watch.
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Another brought it to two match points. Osaka saved one, bouncing on her feet to avoid the next one. Anisimova net. Then she doubled. Against świątek, in two nervous moments, one of them on match point, the net cords had given him a security port. This time she did everything herself, Cutting from the base line to prick a winner of the forehand and grow back Osaka again.
And with a big forehand inside in front of Osaka, she crouching on her knee with a net, holding her head in her hands. Only 54 days have passed since Anisimova had undergone one of the greatest humiliations in sport. Now she had grasped another chance from her greatest glory.
“I was not sure to go beyond the finish line,” she said. “I just tried to stay positive.”
– Matt Futterman
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Arynna Sabalanka against the United States
Aryna Sabalenka avoided another Grand Chelem defeat by an American Thursday evening, gathering to beat Jessica Pegula 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 and qualify for the United States final.
After previous defeats this year against Madison Keys, Coco Gauff and Amanda Anisimova in the final or in the semi-finals of the other Grand Slam, Sabalenka finally delivered when he counted the most::
The main difference manufacturer in the first set was the return of Pegula. Sabalenka made 74% of her first services, more than in one or the other of the sets she won, but Pegula had an incredible reading on this subject. This neutralized the advantage that Sabalenka would have expected and forced her to go too small.
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Pegula had done an excellent job to keep Sabalenka unbalanced in gatherings. She has constantly stuck it with body services, to prevent it from freeing yields. But in the second set, Sabalenka took over, only making seven points on the service when she attenuated the match in a decision maker.
Tolerance at the Pegula rally had dropped, but down 4-2, it rediscovered its ability to suffocate Sabalenka with deep feedback. Sabalenka had to repel three breaking points, one with an excellent net game and two with loss of lapels. Sabalenka won only four return points in the third set, but that was enough to pinch a single breakdown of service. Pegula won 15, but in vain.
Under pressure throughout the final set, Sabalenka was transported to the line, an ace set up from a match point. She won an Smash with a powerful approach photo but tone it in the net. After looking at the disbelief, she beat a reverse in reverse and shouted in New York evening.
On the second match point, Pegula pulled a pass on the toes of Sabalenka so that she could not dig up a volley, but the world n ° 1 obtained the victory in the third attempt, buried a winner of the forehand and shouting to the heavens in celebration.
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So far this year, Sabalenka has failed to defend its title in the Melbourne final, then fell to the last obstacle to the French Open. She is fortunate to be the third time on Saturday.
– Charlie Eccleshare
A rivalry of more than a decade returns to the United States
Large sports rivalries need a plethora of factors. Intense competition; contrasting personalities; Enough meetings to arouse the interest and magic of each person or team involved raising the other in the pursuit of grandeur.
So how it happens: an individual rivalry that extends over more than 60 games and 11 years, has played at the highest level of an individual sport, on its greatest stages.
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Diede de Groot and Yui Kamiji played their 65th meeting on Thursday, in the quarter -final of the US Open championships in wheelchair. Kamiji, 31, won his fourth consecutive fourth victory over DE GROOT, 28, in a three sets match, from Groot, taking the first set before Kamiji returned to take the next two 6-4, 6-4. Their most memorable recent meeting had been in the final of the 2024 paralympic games in Paris, in which Kamiji, who plays on the left, also won three sets of a Down set.
This recent increase is opposed to the long arc of their rivalry. De Groot leads their heads to head 46-18, including a sequence of 29 games between 2021 and 2024. Kamiji broke this sequence during a tournament in the United Kingdom just in front of the Paralympic Games, and brought this confidence in the biggest match in their shared history. She even did a little more, in partnership with Manami Tanaka to beat Groot and Aniek Van Koot in the gold medal match in female double. It was the first time that the Netherlands have not won gold in female double since 1992.
Now Kamiji is in another Grand Colem semi-final. Another chapter in their history awaits, hopefully, in Melbourne in 2026.
– James Hansen
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Shot day -to -day
In a sense, it is a setback of the regulations on the entire line. For Amanda Anisimova against Naomi Osaka, that was all.
Next: male semi-final
🎾 Novak Djokovic (7) against Carlos Alcaraz (2)
3 p.m. HE on ESPN / ESPN +
Djokovic has won the last two meetings of this rivalry, both in very specific circumstances. At the January Australian Open, Alcaraz was a game far from the first set when Djokovic received treatment for what the world would learn later was a tear of the hamstrings. But during the rest of the match, he drink in the brain of Alcaraz and scrambled it from the inside, winning in four sets. Before that, Djokovic defeated Alcaraz in the Paris 2024 Olympic final, playing the best tennis of his last years – and winning two equality breaks. To underline the point: Djokovic can win this match, but he will need the help of all the tennis gods up there, or Alcaraz, to do it.
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🎾 Jannik Beer (1) against Fegix Auer-Maliastime (25)
Not before 7 p.m. HE on ESPN / ESPN +
Auger-Aliassime was on an old-fashioned radiator, this tournament, reaching its first semi-final of the Grand Slam in four years on the strength of its vicious forehand and its powerful service. He faces the defending champion, who seems imperative any tournament to jump a match against Denis Shapovalov, whose tactic Auger-Aliassime cannot really happen again. The Canadian has the weight of the shooting to hinder the sinner, but he will also have to change the pace and steering to disturb the world n ° 1.
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