The semifinals for the 2024 US Open girls’s singles bracket at the moment are set. In a single half of the bracket, the second-seeded Aryna Sabalenka will tackle American Emma Navarro, the No. 13 seed. Within the different half, the unseeded Karolina Muchova is the one remaining unseeded participant, and he or she’ll have her fingers full attempting to greatest Jessica Pegula, the sixth-seeded American.
Navarro and Sabalenka performed on Tuesday, whereas the ultimate semifinal match was decided on Wednesday night, when Pegula confronted Iga Swiatek, the highest seed. Swiatek has been essentially the most dominant participant within the girls’s recreation for the final couple years, however she had few solutions for Pegula, who makes it into her first ever Grand Slam semifinal.
The primary set was all Pegula, however Swiatek confirmed life within the second. After getting damaged early by Pegula, Swiatek broke again to remain in it. A 15-point back-and-forth later within the set had Swiatek combating to remain on observe, however finally she was damaged after a forehand unforced error. A visibly annoyed Swiatek didn’t have a lot to supply after that.
Muchova has had a wild run to this point. Along with dropping the always-tough Naomi Osaka within the second spherical, she has notched back-to-back straight-set victories over seeded competitors. That features her Spherical of 16 opponent, the fifth-seeded Jasmine Paolini (6-3, 6-3), and her quarterfinal opponent, No. 22 Beatriz Haddad Maia (6-1, 6-4).
The 28-year-old Czech can be taking part in in her second US Open semifinal, having reached it final 12 months as effectively. Her greatest displaying at a Slam to this point was an look within the French Open closing in 2023. Her win over Maia on Wednesday was a high quality displaying, with Muchova successful 78 p.c of her first serves, and managed 4 breaks to seal the victory.
Pegula has received her solely match in opposition to Muchova, and on a tough courtroom within the lead-up to this match in Cincinnati.
Sabalenka and Navarro have confronted one another simply twice earlier than, splitting the matchups. Navarro has received their solely outing on laborious courts, whereas Sabalenka bested her on clay on the French Open earlier this 12 months. So far as success on the courtroom goes, the 26-year-old Sabalenka has extra accolades to her identify. She’s obtained two main Grand Slam wins, each on the Australian Open, and obtained a kind of wins initially of this season.
Then there’s Navarro, who at the moment enjoys a career-best No. 12 rating in singles play. The 23-year-old can be taking part in in her first ever Slam semifinal, her earlier greatest being a quarterfinal look at Wimbledon. In actual fact, she has reached her greatest end in all 4 Slams this 12 months, making it to the third spherical in Australia, and the fourth spherical in France as effectively.
Sabalenka’s greatest wins to this point have are available her final two conferences, each straight-set victories over seeded opponents in No. 33 Elise Mertens (6-2, 6-4), and No. 7 Qinwen Zheng, 6-1, 6-2. Zheng was coming off an Olympic gold medal victory, however Sabalenka had little bother dispatching her. Navarro’s largest win on her solution to the semifinal got here within the Spherical of 16 in opposition to the third-seeded American, Coco Gauff. Navarro wanted three units, however finally got here out on high, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.
Swiatek has had a improbable few years of tennis outcomes, although she’d like to clean a few of her extra inconsistent outings. Whereas she has 4 victories on the French Open, and picked up a win on the US Open in 2022, she didn’t handle career-bests on the Australian Open or Wimbledon this season (her greatest finishes nonetheless being the semifinals on the former and the quarterfinals of the latter).
Most just lately, she earned the bronze medal on the Olympics, which is clearly an achievement however a lesser one to what was anticipated of her: gold. She fell to the eventual gold medalist, Zheng Qinwen, in straight units, earlier than beating Anna Karolina Schmiedlova within the bronze medal match. This end on the US Open is a disappointment for her, although it’s extra of a setback than the rest for the 23-year-old.
The ladies’s semifinals are set for Thursday, Sept. 5. Play can be on the primary courts of Arthur Ashe Stadium, starting with the primary of two matchups at 7 p.m. ET. ESPN and ESPN Plus have tv and streaming rights for the match, and each semifinals can be featured on the previous. Under, yow will discover the schedule for the ladies’s semifinals and under that, a take a look at every competitor’s path by means of the match to the penultimate spherical.
US Open tennis girls’s semifinals
No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka vs. No. 13 Emma Navarro
Karolina Muchova vs. No. 6 Jessica Pegula
No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka’s path to the semifinal
def. Priscilla Hon, 6-3, 6-3
def. Lucia Bronzetti, 6-3, 6-1
def. No. 29 Ekaterina Alexandrova 2-6, 1-6, 6-2
def. No. 33 Elise Mertens, 6-2, 6-4
def. No. 7 Qinwen Zheng, 6-1, 6-2
No. 13 Emma Navarro’s path to the semifinal
def. Anna Blinkova, 6-1, 6-1
def. Arantxa Rus, 6-1, 6-1
def. No. 19 Marta Kostyuk, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
def. No. 3 Coco Gauff, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
def. No. 26 Paula Badosa, 6-2, 7-5
Karolina Muchova’s path to the semifinal
def. Katie Volynets, 6-3, 7-5
def. Naomi Osaka, 6-3, 7-6(5)
def. Anastasia Potapova, 6-4, 6-2
def. No. 5 Jasmine Paolini, 6-3, 6-3
def. No. 22 Beatriz Haddad Maia, 6-1, 6-4
No. 6 Jessica Pegula’s path to the semifinal
def. Shelby Rogers 6-4, 6-3
def. Sofia Kenin, 7-6(4), 6-3
def. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, 6-3, 6-3
def. Diana Shnaider, 6-4, 6-2
def. No. 1 Iga Swiatek, 6-2, 6-4
