Coco Gauff has reached the U.S. Open semifinals for the first time
Coco Gauff, of the United States, serves to Jelena Ostapenko, of Latvia, during the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, in 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,” 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 Swiatek victory 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.”
Djokovic next meets No. 10 Frances Tiafoe or unseeded Ben Shelton, who joined Fritz in making this the first time since 2005 that three U.S. men were in the final eight in New York.
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