The US Open, a grand slam tennis tournament which features some of the greatest tennis players in the world continues on Thursday, September 7, 2023 (9/7/23) with the women’s semifinals taking place at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York.
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 U.S. Open does not leave her satisfied at all, no matter how dominant the performance was that got her to that stage.
“Even though the semifinals, theory, if you want to win, there’s two matches left, you can’t think like that,” the sixth-seeded Gauff said. “I’m still in the mindset that I’m in the beginning of the tournament. That’s what I have learned in the past being in quarterfinals: Before, I would think, ‘Close to the end.’ But right now, I have the mentality that I told myself, ‘I still have another two weeks to play.’ So that’s where my mind is at. Then, obviously when it’s over, it’s over.
Ostapenko complained that she had a short turnaround because that victory over Swiatek 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 a rule change about the use of the roofs on the two largest arenas.
“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.”
Gauff, naturally, had the pro-American crowd on her side. They applauded and yelled for her even before she stepped out on court, reacting when she was shown on the arena’s video screens during a prematch TV interview.And once it did, she got off to about as good a start as possible, grabbing 12 of the initial 15 points for a 3-0 lead after just 10 minutes.
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