We could be looking at an all American Final in the women's half of the US Open. In fact the only person who can stop that from happening is the current world no.1. Will she manage to deal with the pressures? I certainly hope so, simply because I love the simple style and depth with which she plays.
The Sloanes vs Sevastova match started off incredibly dull, but slowly picked up once the latter got some medical attention. Sloanes is becoming the formidable player she was before her foot injury, and I believe she has a real chance at making it to the final and even winning it. Her quickness on court is stunning to watch.
And what a match Kvitova and V Williams played. I read a few headlines this morning that stated: "Kvitova outplayed by Venus", "Venus too strong for Kvitova," and I must say that the highlights and the scoreline do not reflect those statements. This was a tough, close match. A more fitting way to describe it would be Venus comes out top in a deciding tie break. Kudos to both players though - Venus is having an amazing year, and Kvitova is coming back from her wrist injury like a star!
The first men's quarter final was a rather dull game. It was a straight forward victory for Carenno Busta. Schwartzman was just not connecting his shots and had too many unforced errors to make it a competitive encounter.
I woke up to see that Anderson and Querrey were still going strong. The first two sets were predictably even with Querrey needing 8 match points to seal off the second and push the game to 4/5 sets. Once he was broken in the third, it was pretty much guaranteed that he would have to win the next two sets, if he wanted a chance at the semi final. But Anderson was steady and maintained an incredibly high level in his service games and sealed off the win in the 4th set tie-break...
What that means is that in complete contrast to the women's game we have no Americans still playing in the men's draw...
Let the rest of the games begin...
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