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NEW YORK – (AP) – Latest information on the US Open tennis tournament (all local times):
9:40 p.m.
Leylah Fernandez qualified for the US Open final edging Aryna Sabalenka 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-4.
Fernandez will become the second 19-year-old Canadian to make the women’s final at Flushing Meadows in three years. Bianca Andreescu won the title in 2019.
After knocking out US Open champions Naomi Osaka and Angelique Kerber as well as No. 5 seed Elina Svitolina in her startling run, Fernandez refused second-seed Sabalenka to compete in her first Grand Final. Slam.
Fernandez will play on Saturday against Emma Radacanu, 18, or Greece’s Maria Sakkari.
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9:15 p.m.
Diede de Groot is off to a good start in hopes of finishing a Golden Slam.
The No. 1 seed in the women’s wheelchair division defeated Colombian Angelica Bernal 6-2, 6-0 in her quarter-final match.
De Groot won the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon this year before winning a gold medal for the Netherlands at the Paralympic Games.
No tennis player has won all four Grand Slam tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in the same year since Steffi Graf in 1988.
Australian Dylan Alcott, who was trying to achieve the same feat in the men’s singles division, saw his opening match postponed by rain.
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8:55 p.m.
Aryna Sabalenka sent the first US Open women’s semi-final to a decisive set.
The No. 2 seed won the second set 6-4 to tie the game against 19-year-old Canadian Leylah Fernandez.
Sabalenka broke Fernandez’s serve for a 5-4 lead, then served the set, keeping his chances of reaching his first Grand Slam final alive.
Fernandez won the first set in a tiebreaker.
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8:15 p.m.
Leylah Fernandez won a tiebreaker in the first set to move halfway to the US Open final.
The 19-year-old Canadian leads No. 2 seed Aryna Sabalenka after winning the last four points in the tiebreaker to win 7-3.
Sabalenka appeared keen to dominate Fernandez early on, winning 12 of the first 14 points and leading to a 3-0 lead in just eight minutes.
But Fernandez stabilized and then enjoyed shaky play in Sabalenka’s tiebreaker, including an overload she planted far from bounds and a double fault.
Sabalenka lost in the Wimbledon semifinals in their only other major semifinal.
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7:00 p.m.
Leylah Fernandez knocked out two of the top five seeds in her surprising run to the US Open semifinals.
Now the 19-year-old Canadian will try to upset another as she takes on number 2 Aryna Sabalenka in a match that begins under the lights of the Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Fernandez knocked out defending champion Naomi Osaka in the third round and No. 5 seed Elina Svitolina in the quarterfinals. She also ousted another former Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber in between.
Ashe’s rooftop is open for their game after the rain stopped for much of the day. This has forced the postponement of some junior and wheelchair matches.
The second semi-final features another teenage girl, as 18-year-old Briton Emma Raducanu takes on Greece’s No.17 Maria Sakkari.
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3:45 p.m.
Britain’s Jamie Murray and Brazilian Bruno Soares moved closer to their second US Open title in men’s doubles by reaching the final.
The seventh-seeded duo beat the eighth-seeded team of Australia’s John Peers and Slovakian Filip Polasek 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 in the semi-finals on Thursday.
Murray and Soares will face American Rajeev Ram and Briton Joe Salisbury for the championship.
Murray, whose younger brother Andy is a three-time major singles champion, and Soares together won the US Open and Australian Open in 2016.
Soares also teamed up with Mate Pavic to win the men’s doubles trophy at Flushing Meadows a year ago.
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13:40
American Rajeev Ram and Briton Joe Salisbury reached their third men’s Grand Slam doubles final as a team.
Ram and Salisbury beat American pair Steve Johnson and Sam Querrey 7-6 (5), 6-4 on Thursday with the Louis Armstrong Stadium retractable roof closed due to the rain.
The fourth-seeded duo Ram and Salisbury won the 2020 Australian Open title and finished second at Melbourne Park this year.
They will now meet the winners of the semi-final in New York between Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares against John Peers and Filip Polasek.
Soares and Murray won two Grand Slam titles together in 2016, including the US Open. Soares was the 2020 men’s doubles champion at Flushing Meadows with Mate Pavic.
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12:45 p.m.
Two unranked teenagers will take the stage in the US Open women’s semi-finals: Britain’s Emma Raducanu, 18, and Canada’s Leylah Fernandez, 19.
Fernandez, 73rd in the table, will face number 2 seed Aryna Sabalenka in the first semi-final on Thursday night. The match is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. at the Arthur Ashe Stadium.
This will be followed by Raducanu, 150th, against No.17 seed Maria Sakkari of Greece. Raducanu is the first female qualifier to qualify for the final four of the pro-era US Open, which began in 1968.
None of the four remaining women in the tournament have ever played in a Grand Slam final.
Thursday’s schedule also includes the men’s doubles semi-finals. It’s raining in Flushing Meadows and the first doubles semi-final has started at Louis Armstrong Stadium with the retractable roof closed. Steve Johnson and Sam Querrey take on Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury.
The wheelchair and junior competitions scheduled to start at noon are delayed due to rain, which is forecast for much of the afternoon and early evening.
Ashe and Armstrong are the only two courts with roofs.
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