Jessica Pegula was confident she could defeat a "prime" Iga Swiatek to reach her first grand slam semi-final at the US Open. (Full Coverage | More Tennis News)
Jessica Pegula Was Confident In Downing 'Prime' Iga Swiatek At Flushing Meadows
Pegula's triumph set up a meeting with Karolina Muchova for a place in the final after the Czech overcame illness to beat Beatriz Haddad Maia, also in straight sets
𒁏Pegula, who had lost her previous six slam quarter-finals, came through in straight sets at Flushing Meadows to stun the world number one.
ꦡShe also became the fourth American in the Open Era to reach the women’s singles semi-final at the Canadian, Cincinnati and US Open in a calendar year after Rosemary Casals (1970), Serena Williams (2013-15) and Sloane Stephens (2017).
🐽Pegula's triumph set up a meeting with Karolina Muchova for a place in the final after the Czech overcame illness to beat Beatriz Haddad Maia, also in straight sets.
🍸With Emma Navarro along with Frances Tiafoe and Taylor Fritz advancing to the final four, it is the first time two Americans have reached the semi-finals in the women’s and men’s singles at the US Open since 2003, with Jennifer Caprati, Lindsay Davenport, Andy Roddick and Andre Agassi the first do so.
♈It also marked Pegula's fourth victory over the Pole, with the latest win considered one of her best.
💦"I've been [to the quarter-finals] so many freaking times but I kept losing," Pegula said.
ඣ"Finally - finally - I can say I'm a semi-finalist. Thank you to the crowd, you carried me through that last game.
𝓰"To do it at prime time against the number one player in the world - it's crazy, but I knew I could do it."
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