The favourites were there on the night of Monday to Tuesday. World number 1 Jannik Sinner will meet Daniil Medvedev in the quarter-finals. Iga Swiatek continues her rise to prominence.
The favors
During the night session, Jannik Sinner dominated Tommy Paul in three sets, two of which were very hard-fought (7-6(3), 7-6(5), 6-1) and earned himself a first qualification in New York for the quarter-finals. The Italian handled the tie-breaks of the first two sets like a boss, before breaking at the start of the third set with a sublime passing shot at the end of the race and rolling on. A logical success, but not everything was so simple for the Italian. Trailing 4-1 double break, he quickly regained his spirits to take the measure of the No. 14 seed of this US Open. “I didn’t start very well, we weren’t playing our best tennis. It was a bit windy and I had too many ups and downs on my side,” commented the world number one who gives Daniil Medvedev a date for an XXL quarter-final.
The shock of the quarters
Carlos Alcaraz, eliminated in the second round, and Novak Djokovic, ejected in the third round, are no longer there. Sinner and Medvedev, easy winner of the Portuguese Nuno Borges (6-0, 6-1, 6-3) are now the favorites. The two men will face each other on Wednesday in a final before the hour, between the last two players in the men’s draw to have already won a Grand Slam title (one each). The Italian, crowned at the Australian Open, is trailing seven to five in their head-to-heads by the 28-year-old Russian, winner at Flushing Meadows in 2021. It will be the final between the two men this year in the Grand Slam. The Russian won at Wimbledon in the quarter-finals during their last duel, but Sinner dominated him in the Australian Open final, in five sets.
The first
At the end of a one-sided match, the British Jack Draper outclassed Tomas Machac (6-3, 6-1, 6-2) and validated his ticket for his first quarter-final in a Grand Slam. The 25th in the world, became the first British to reach the quarter-finals in New York in the men’s draw since Andy Murray in 2016. The Czech had not lost a set until then, but he was non-existent against the 22-year-old Briton, very solid on his serve. However, he had lost in their first three confrontations. The winner of Stuttgart on grass, chose the right moment to finally dominate Machac. Place to Alex de Minaur, 10e world, with a good card to play. Alex de Minaur suffered to push aside his compatriot Jordan Thompson (6-0, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5).
The world number one
Everything is going well for Iga Swiatek. After a somewhat rotten summer and disappointments at Wimbledon and the Olympic Games, the Polish player reached the quarter-finals without having lost a set along the way. After eight close first games (4-4), she unleashed a showdown against Liudmila Samsonova. After breaking her opponent’s white (6-4), the four-time Roland-Garros winner scored seven games in a row to win 6-4, 6-1. The Polish player therefore returns to the quarter-finals where she will face American Jessica Pegula, seeded number 6.
At state 0/6
Facing Iga Swiatek on Wednesday, Jessica Pegula has never made it past the quarter-finals in her first six attempts at a Grand Slam. Pegula did not waver in any case to outclass the young Diana Shnaider, 20 years old (6-4, 6-2). The Russian was playing in her first eighth-final at a Grand Slam. Winner in Toronto (where she beat Shnaider in the semi-finals), finalist in Cincinnati, Pegula is in great shape. Enough to hope to finally take another step in a Grand Slam?
The statement
“It was my most serious injury, but I love this sport. In my head, I really wanted to do everything to recover. And here I am today. I am as happy as a child.”. Czech Karolina Muchova, easy winner of Italian Jasmine Paolini, 5e world finalist of the last two Majors (Roland-Garros and Wimbledon), 6-3, 6-3, did not hide her joy. She has come a long way. Finalist at Roland-Garros last year, Muchova had ended her season after her semi-final here due to a wrist injury. Operated on in February, she did not return to the circuit in Eastbourne (grass) in June. Falling back to 52e world place, she finds the light at the right time and will try to continue the great adventure against the Brazilian Beatriz Haddaàd (21st).
The beautiful story
Beatriz Haddad Maia, seeded No. 2, had the final say against Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki (6-2, 3-6, 6-3) on Monday evening. The Brazilian is the first from her country to reach the quarter-finals of the US Open in singles since Maria Bueno in 1968. In the men’s draw, Gustavo Kuerten played in the quarter-finals in New York in 1999 and 2001.
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