{"id":18171,"date":"2024-09-05T03:39:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T03:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=18171"},"modified":"2024-09-05T03:39:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T03:39:26","slug":"taylor-emma-reached-us-open-first-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=18171","title":{"rendered":"Taylor, Emma reached US Open first semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/AP24247632023124.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/AP24247632023124.jpg 750w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/AP24247632023124-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW YORK: Taylor Fritz and Emma Navarro reached their first Grand Slam semi-finals on the US Open, boosting domestic hopes of a double American name birthday party this weekend. The 12th-seeded Fritz received a huge-hitting conflict in opposition to fourth-seeded 2020 runner-up Alexander Zverev of Germany 7-6 (7\/2), 3-6, 6-four, 7-6 (7\/three). He will face both American compatriot Frances Tiafoe or Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria for a place in Sunday\u2019s very last. Navarro, gambling in the front of her home New York crowd, also broke thru to a maiden Slam semi-final through defeating Paula Badosa of Spain 6-2, 7-5 after trailing five-1 within the 2nd set. The 13th seed will address second-ranked Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka who demolished China\u2019s Olympic gold medallist Zheng Qinwen 6-1, 6-2 for a gap in Saturday\u2019s championship fit. Zverev\u2019s defeat method world primary Jannik Sinner is the best pinnacle-4 player left inside the guys\u2019s draw following the shock early exits of Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz. \u201cI actually have had some appears at Grand Slam area-finals over time so I felt it became my turn to take a step in addition,\u201d said the 26-yr-old Fritz who cracked 12 aces among his 45 winners. \u201cIt\u2019s cool I\u2019m in the semis. But I very lots have the attitude of the process\u2019s not achieved.\u201d On Tuesday, Fritz noticed three set factors come and go within the opener before sweeping thru the tie-spoil. Zverev, bidding to reach a ninth semi-very last at the majors, levelled the tie however Fritz dug deep, converting a fifth set point in the 1\/3. Zverev stored destroy points within the 6th recreation of the fourth but as soon as Fritz received a lung-busting 24-shot rally in the tie-breaker, he had the victory momentum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Taylor Fritz and Emma Navarro reached their first Grand Slam semi-finals on the US Open, boosting domestic hopes of a double American name birthday party this weekend. The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,1555],"class_list":["post-18171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-tennis-players","tag-us-open-tennis-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18173,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18171\/revisions\/18173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}