In the women’s lottery, the top seeds drop like flies.
Two more top-seeded players, No. 3 Jessica Pegula and No. 5 Ons Jabur, were eliminated on Monday, leaving only No. 2 Alina Sabalenka and No. 6 Coco Gauff in the Top 8. became.
The US Open was an eventful one for Jabour, dropping two sets in his first three matches and going 6-2, 6-4 to world No. 23 Qingwen Zhen in the fourth round at Louis Armstrong Stadium. lost in
At the beginning of the tournament, Jabbar complained of illness.
The one-sided victory took Zheng only 1 hour and 22 minutes to reach the quarterfinals of his career for the first time.
She broke Jabour’s serve six times and dominated at the net for 10 of 14 points.
“I am very happy and excited to play in a big stadium,” Zheng said in an on-court interview. “Ons is a great player and really hard to beat. She has a lot of variation.
Zheng will face the winner of Sabalenka/No. 13 Daria Kasatkina on Wednesday.
Peyton Stearns started feeling it on Sunday.
pressure. excitement. Nerve.
In the end, the anxiety that the 21-year-old was playing in the fourth round for the first time in a major tournament overcame her.
“I’ve been dreaming of this all my life, so it started,” said the unseeded American as she beat No. 9 Czech Marketa Bondrosova 6-7(3), 6-3, 6-2 in three sets. said after the loss. , on monday. “I was pushing my body too hard and I got tired very quickly.
Stearns, who turned pro last summer after winning an NCAA title at the University of Texas, was a big surprise at the British Open.
She won her first three matches without dropping a set, becoming the first player to win a set from Wimbledon champion Vondorosova at the tournament.
But her serve let her down, with Stearns having a 57% first serve completion rate and eight double faults. And she started making too many mistakes.
Stearns was broken seven times and committed 52 unforced errors, which is too many to surpass Von Drosova’s ilk.
She saved five break points in the first game of the third set, but was eventually broken and never fully recovered.
“I think there are a lot of positives,” said Stearns, who moved up to No. 44 on Monday’s live rankings. “It’s certainly not fun to lose, but I think it kind of sets off a fire. [in me]. I am in the early stages of my career. I am ready to go all out for the next tournament. “
The men’s team’s No. 1 seed Carlos Alcaraz barely outmatched unseeded Italian Matteo Arnaldi as they advanced to the quarterfinals with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 victory at Arthur Ashe Stadium. proceeded to
The Spaniard has reached the last eight in his last three majors, and has reached the last eight in four of his last five.
Alcaraz will face No. 6 Yannick Sinner/No.1 winner. 12 Alexander Zverev on Wednesday. …Russia’s Andrei Rublev lost three sets in a row but beat Great Britain’s Jack Draper 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the quarterfinals.
The eighth-seeded Rublev has reached nine Grand Slams so far, but has never advanced further.
