The second week of the ultimate Grand Slam of 2022 has begun. Listed here are all the important thing numbers and statistics from Day 7 of the US Open.
US Open Day 7: Coco Gauff, Caroline Garcia set quarterfinal conflict | Ons Jabeur, Ajla Tomljanovic advance to final eight | Week 1 in quotes
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1 – Ons Jabeur continues to blaze a path each time she hits a private milestone: The Tunisian’s first US Open quarterfinal can also be a primary for her nation, and she or he is the primary Arab lady to succeed in the final eight at Flushing Meadows. The final African lady to succeed in the US Open quarterfinals was South Africa’s Amanda Coetzer in 1998.
5 – Years since Caroline Garcia’s final (and solely prior) Grand Slam quarterfinal, at Roland Garros 2017. The Frenchwoman is now on a 12-match profitable streak since profitable Cincinnati as a qualifier; she has additionally received 29 out of 33 matches since mid-June, together with titles in Unhealthy Homburg and Warsaw as properly.
18 – At 18 years outdated, Coco Gauff is the youngest US Open semifinalist since a 17-year-old Melanie Oudin in 2009. Gauff, the youngest participant within the final 16, defeated 33-year-old Zhang Shuai, the oldest participant within the final 16, 7-5, 7-5.
0-3 – The dropping head-to-head information Ons Jabeur and Caroline Garcia confronted towards Veronika Kudermetova and Alison Riske-Amritraj respectively earlier than defeating them for the primary time on Day 7. Neither Jabeur nor Garcia had beforehand received a set towards their fourth-round opponents, however got here by way of 7-6(1), 6-4 and 6-4, 6-1 respectively to succeed in their first US Open quarterfinals.
3 – Out of 4 singles matches on Day 7, three reversed outcomes from earlier this yr, and two from August’s North American hard-court swing. Alison Riske-Amritraj had overwhelmed Caroline Garcia 6-4, 7-5 within the second spherical of Nottingham; Veronika Kudermetova had taken out Ons Jabeur 7-6(5), 6-2 within the San Jose quarterfinals; and Liudmila Samsonova had defeated Ajla Tomljanovic 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 within the second spherical of Washington.
5-2 – First-set deficits overturned by Ons Jabeur and Ajla Tomljanovic. From 5-2 down towards Veronika Kudermetova, Jabeur received 12 of the following 16 factors to degree at 5-5; and from 6-5 down, she received 11 of the following 12 factors to take the set.
In the meantime, Tomljanovic saved a complete of eight set factors to steal the primary set from Liudmila Samsonova — seven serving at 4-5 and another within the tiebreak, earlier than cruising to victory 7-6(8), 6-1.
0 – First-time Grand Slam quarterfinalists at this yr’s US Open. Liudmila Samsonova had been the one participant within the final 16 who had not beforehand made a significant quarterfinal. The final Grand Slam to characteristic no new quarterfinalists was the 2017 US Open.
0 – Instances Caroline Garcia dropped serve towards Alison Riske-Amritraj, saving all 4 break factors she confronted. Certainly, Garcia has solely misplaced serve twice up to now within the event — each instances towards Bianca Andreescu within the third spherical.
3 – Grand Slam quarterfinals reached prior to now 15 months by Ajla Tomljanovic. The Australian performed her first main major draw at Wimbledon 2013, and reached the fourth spherical of a Slam for the primary time on her Roland Garros debut in 2014 — however that was the one time in her first 26 Grand Slam major attracts that she made it past the second spherical. Tomljanovic snapped that streak to succeed in the Wimbledon 2021 quarterfinals, repeated her SW19 run this yr, and has now made the final eight for the primary time in New York.