The 20-year-old’s exit means Serena Williams remains the last woman to successfully defend the US Open title back in 2014.
COCO GAUFF JOINED Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz on the US Open scrap-heap as the defending champion crashed out to Emma Navarro in a blizzard of mistakes.
— US Open Tennis September 1, 2024 “I lost in the first round the last two years and now to be making the quarter-finals is pretty insane,” said Navarro, who will face Spain’s Paula Badosa for a place in the semi-finals.Djokovic, the defending men’s champion, was knocked out in the third round to suffer his earliest exit in 18 years.
Advertisement Gauff recovered from a break down in the second set to level the tie, but it was a brief respite as she served up three more double faults in the third game of the decider to slip a crucial break down again. Alexander Zverev, who blew a two-set lead to lose the 2020 final to Dominic Thiem, made his fourth quarter-final by beating Brandon Nakashima of the United States, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2.Up next is a last-eight clash with 12th seed Fritz, who came back from two sets down to triumph in the pair’s dramatic fourth round clash at Wimbledon in July.
Despite the one-sided scoreline, the first two games took 17 minutes. Badosa saved all eight break points she faced.Women’s second seed and Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka, runner-up to Gauff last year, eased into a fourth successive quarter-final by seeing off Belgium’s Elise Mertens 6-2, 6-4, unleashing 41 winners.
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