NEW YORK—Coco Gauff knows what it takes to reach a Grand Slam final. Been there, done that. What she hasn't experienced is winning a major championship. So her first trip to the semifinals at the US Open does not leave her satisfied at all, no matter how dominant the performance was that got…
, 6-0, 6-2, on Tuesday, becoming the first American teenager to reach the final four at Flushing Meadows since Serena Williams in 2001.
This was the 16th victory in her past 17 matches for Gauff, who will face No. 10 Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic on Thursday. Muchova, who made it to the French Open final in June, also used a terrific start — saving the nine break points she faced in the opening set, all in one game — to get past No. 30 Sorana Cirstea of Romania 6-0, 6-3 at night.
Ostapenko complained that she had a short turnaround because that Swiatek victory ended so late and then the Gauff match was so early — it began shortly after noon, with the temperature at 90 degrees Fahrenheit and the humidity above 50%, prompting “I was pretty sure going to play at night session, because that’s what they told me,” Ostapenko said. “When the schedule came out, I saw I’m playing first match and was, like, ‘Wow, that’s a little bit strange scheduling.
“She certainly wasn’t told anything from me or anybody on the referee’s staff. There’s always conversations between coaches, players to the referee’s, team tournament management, about the schedule, but I don’t believe that she was promised anything about specifically when she would play,” Garner said. “And that would be very unusual for anybody to be promised anything that far in advance.”
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