Us Open Tennis 2025: Jessica Pegula, Carlos Alcaraz, Aryna Sabalenka In Action On Day Eight – Live

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Lehecka, meanwhile, has sewage a 2nd group constituent successful nan opener against Mannarino, starring 5-4 and astatine advantage connected Mannarino’s serve. Mannarino shows unrelenting resoluteness to prevention it. This lucifer represents a large opportunity for these 2 left-handers, contempt being astatine very different stages of their careers. The 37-year-old Frenchman Mannarino, successful his 15th US Open, and nan 23-year-old Czech Lehecka are some attempting to scope nan past 8 for nan first time. Mannarino fends disconnected a 3rd group constituent earlier holding aft six deuces. It’s 5-5.

The support, it has to beryllium said, for each subordinate is reasonably muted successful nan opening exchanges, because nan stands are obscurity adjacent full, dissimilar for Coco Gauff’s early lucifer yesterday. Pegula is locked successful from nan off, breaking to 15 successful nan opening game, earlier holding to emotion and past breaking from deuce erstwhile she treats a 2nd service pinch utter disdain by battering a backhand winner. Li is already glancing up astatine her container looking for answers.

Pegula and Li person made their entrance. Amid each nan aforementioned fury successful New York, Pegula, arsenic always, has been softly going astir her business, and past year’s finalist enters this round-of-16 lucifer yet to driblet a set. I don’t cognize that overmuch astir Li, I must admit, but nan 25-year-old has been making decent advancement this twelvemonth and precocious reached a WTA 250 last successful Cleveland. But this is her first clip connected Ashe – really will she grip nan occasion? At slightest she knows nan crowd won’t beryllium against her – though which American will shadiness nan support?

And here’s what happened yesterday, if you request to drawback up:

Tumaini’s written a bully portion connected each nan subordinate rage:

Daniel Altmaier had thing much to say. Moments aft 1 of nan biggest wins of his career, nan German unwittingly recovered himself connected nan receiving extremity of Stefanos Tsitsipas’s ire during their handshake astatine nan net. Before Tsitsipas could finish, though, Altmaier had walked distant from nan nett and he refused to prosecute successful nan Greek’s attempts to reason pinch him.

Altmaier shrugs astatine nan first mention of nan incident: “Even if I would person lost, I would not participate discussions because it’s conscionable for illustration power of nan moment. You request to cool down; let’s spot if he reacts to it aliases he sticks to his sentiment while cooling down connected an workout motorcycle successful nan subordinate gym precocious astatine night.”

Although Altmaier had nan wherewithal to deliberation intelligibly successful nan power of battle, nan aforesaid cannot beryllium said for galore different players successful New York complete nan past week, a tourney that has been dominated by outbursts of anger and vexation from players. “Lots of drama,” says Jessica Pegula, laughing. “I don’t know. My matches person been beautiful nary drama, truthful I’m not really judge what’s going connected pinch everybody else. I don’t know. It’s conscionable that New York City tends to bring retired conscionable a batch of drama, I guess.”

In hindsight, nan Daniil Medvedev show connected nan first nighttime of nan tournament was a motion of things to travel arsenic he lambasted nan umpire earlier inciting nan Louis Armstrong Stadium assemblage into a six-minute protestation while Benjamin Bonzi held lucifer constituent successful their first information match. Although that incident sparked a melodramatic comeback, Medvedev mislaid successful 5 unforgettable sets.

Then, aft crashing retired of nan tourney successful a 2nd information nonaccomplishment to Taylor Townsend, Jelena Ostapenko collapsed retired connected nan court. Townsend later said Ostapenko’s heated comments towards her had included nan Latvian accusing her of having “no education” and “no class”. Tsitsipas, who was apparently disappointment by Altmaier’s successful underarm service successful their 2nd information match, tried to nonstop his force a connection aft nan match: “Next time, don’t wonderment why I deed you, OK? No, I’m conscionable saying if you service underarm…” he said, his sound trailing off. By that time, Altmaier had removed himself from nan conversation.

You tin publication nan remainder here.

Preamble

Hello! And invited to today’s sum of nan US Open, arsenic we deed nan midway constituent successful nan last slam of nan year. Despite each nan sound and chaos complete nan past week successful New York – including Daniil Medvedev’s mighty meltdown, Jelena Ostapenko’s disfigured comments towards Taylor Townsend (for which Ostapenko has yet apologised), Stefanos Tsitsipas’s underarm service fury and 7 wounded retirements connected nan men’s broadside – there’s a flimsy consciousness of calm astatine nan commencement of time eight, pinch only six fourth-round singles matches successful nan time session.

Starting connected Arthur Ashe successful a fewer minutes it’s nan all-American brushwood betwixt past year’s runner-up Jessica Pegula and Ann Li, followed by nan man of nan tourney truthful far, Carlos Alcaraz, against France’s Arthur Rinderknech. Play connected Louis Armstrong is already nether way, pinch Adrian Mannarino and Jiri Lehecka fighting for a spot successful their first US Open quarter-final. Then it’s nan 2 Taylors – Townsend takes connected nan 2024 Wimbledon victor Barbora Krejcikova and Fritz faces nan Czech Tomas Machac – earlier Aryna Sabalenka (last but surely not slightest arsenic nan defending champion) rounds things disconnected against Spain’s Cristina Bucsa. Let’s hope, for Laura Robson’s liking astatine least, location isn’t different marriage connection successful Sabalenka’s match. The shame.