19-year-old Canadian Leylah Fernandez (number 73 WTA) will have to contend with world number 2 Aryna Sabalenka in the US Open women's semifinal.
The Belarusian, second-seeded, defeated the Czech Barbora Krejcikova (9 / a), reigning Rolland Garros champion 6-1, 6-4.
"Today my father", who is also his coach, "said to me 'Fight on every point. It's your first quarter of a Grand Slam. Don't play the last game here. Fight for your dream'", he revealed Fernandez after beating Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, fifth-seeded, in the quarter-finals, with a score of 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7/5). Of the young Canadian, her next opponent, Sabalenka said: "She plays well, she moves well and I know she will have nothing to lose."