Coco Gauff raised a fist, then wagged her right index finger, responding to, and riling up even more, a loud-louder-loudest Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd that was standing and screaming. ()
Gauff's U.S. Open opponent, Zhang Shuai, covered both ears with her hands to shield them from what she described later as a 바카라Boom!바카라 of sound.
Gauff and her fans were reacting excitedly to quite a point, one in which the 18-year-old Floridian raced to her right for a defensive forehand, then changed directions to sprint and slide into a backhand that drew a netted volley from Zhang. Just four points later, Gauff was a quarterfinalist at Flushing Meadows for the first time.
Gauff, the French Open runner-up in June, came back in each set to beat China's Zhang 7-5, 7-5 on Sunday to become the youngest American to make it this far at the U.S. Open since Melanie Oudin was 17 in 2009.
바카라Here, I can't hear myself scream. Makes me want to do it more. I think I'm feeding off the momentum a lot. I enjoy it,바카라 said No. 12 seed Gauff, who meets No. 17 Caroline Garcia of France on Tuesday.
바카라New York is bringing out a side of me that I haven't had since I was 15, so it's nice.바카라
Nick Kyrgios is playing much better than he ever has at Flushing Meadows, too, building off the momentum of his run to the Wimbledon final in July, and he eliminated defending champion and No. 1-ranked Daniil Medvedev 7-6 (11), 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Sunday night.
The 23rd-seeded Kyrgios was up to some of his usual behavior 바카라 warned for cursing, yelling at his guest box, playing to the crowd 바카라 but he also outplayed Medvedev in a high-quality match.
바카라I'm just glad I'm finally able to show New York my talent,바카라 said Kyrgios, never past the third round at the U.S. Open until now.
바카라I haven't had too many great trips here.바카라
He'll play No. 27 seed Karen Khachanov on Tuesday, when the other's men's quarterfinal on the top half of the bracket is 2022 French Open runner-up Casper Ruud against 2021 Wimbledon runner-up Matteo Berrettini.
Medvedev will relinquish the top spot in the rankings after the U.S. Open, with Ruud joining Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz as players with a chance to replace him.
After trailing 5-4 in the opening set, then 5-3 in the second, which she was a point from losing, Gauff was buoyed by spectators who cheered her every point and chanted 바카라Let's go, Coco!바카라 as the end neared. She improved to 4-0 in Ashe this year after having never previously won a match at the biggest arena in Grand Slam tennis.Â
How loud was it?Â
바카라It got so racuous in there that I got a headache. I had to take an Advil,바카라 said Gauff's father, Corey.Â
바카라I kept pinching myself. I'm like, My gosh, all of these people here for my daughter.' You dream about this, but you never know if you're going to realize that. She was pumping herself up and they responded to her. It sent chills up my spine.바카라Â
Zhang, at 33 the oldest woman to reach the fourth round, said it was more noise than she's ever heard at a match.Â
She praised Gauff's play, calling her 바카라a superstar바카라 and adding: 바카라Everything is very good. She's so much younger than me. Her energy is so much better. She's faster. She's powerful.바카라Â
They competed mostly from the baseline, and the longer the exchanges, the more success Gauff found: She claimed a 45-26 edge in points that lasted five or more strokes.
Garcia is coming off a hard-court title at Cincinnati and stretched her winning streak to 12 matches by defeating No. 29 Alison Riske-Amritraj of the U.S. 6-4, 6-1.
바카라I'm super excited, actually, to play Coco 바카라 in U.S., in New York, quarterfinal of a Slam. It's great,바카라 Garcia said.
The other quarterfinal on that half of the women's field will be between Ajla Tomljanovic, the player who beat Serena Williams in the third round, and No. 5 Ons Jabeur, who was the runner-up at Wimbledon. Tomljanovic got past Liudmila Samsonova 7-6 (8), 6-1 at Louis Armstrong Stadium in a matchup between unseeded players, while Jabeur defeated No. 18 Veronika Kudermetova 7-6 (1), 6-4.Â
Tomljanovic is a 29-year-old Australian who is now into her third Grand Slam quarterfinal after making it that far at Wimbledon the past two years. On Wednesday, Tomljanovic beat Williams in three sets in what is expected to be the last match of the 23-time Grand Slam champion's career.
In Gauff-Zhang, the whirring of the Ashe retractable roof being pulled shut accompanied the start of the second set because of showers that started soon after, and it took a while for the artificial lights to reach full strength. The match proceeded, even though it was rather dark 바카라 and quite humid 바카라 indoors.
Zhang started getting a bit better of the back-and-forth midway through the second set, and when she hit a backhand winner of her own, she broke to lead 5-3.
Last year's U.S. Open doubles champion 바카라 she and Sam Stosur beat Gauff and Caty McNally in the final 바카라 served to force a third set, and was a point away from getting there, but Gauff steeled herself and stood her ground.Â
That set point was frittered away when Zhang sent a backhand long. Gauff smacked 바카라 what else? 바카라 a down-the-line backhand winner for her third break point of that game, then delivered a good return to a corner that drew a long backhand to make it 5-4 and start a four-game, match-closing run.
Everyone's known how talented Gauff is for a while now. After all, at 15, she became the youngest qualifier in Wimbledon history in 2019, beat Venus Williams in the first round of the main draw and made it all the way to the fourth.Â
There have been more steps along the way, more achievements 바카라 last month, she became the second-youngest doubles No. 1 in WTA history 바카라 and her ever-developing game 바카라 the most notable recent improvements were to her forehand and second serve 바카라 keeps carrying her closer to the top of the singles rankings and closer to a Grand Slam title.
And at this point, having the full sport of more than 20,000 folks in Ashe doesn't hurt, either.
바카라She's found a home there,바카라 Dad said. 바카라I hope she's going to play there for the rest of the tournament.바카라
