US Open Day 10: Latest quarterfinal results, schedule of play and more

Admin September 4, 2024

It’s Day 10 of the U.S. Open tennis tournament in Flushing Meadows, New York featuring quarterfinal action in men’s and women’s singles.

Jack Draper has defeated Alex de Minaur 6-3, 7-5, 6-2 to become the first man since 2020 to reach the U.S. Open semifinals without dropping a set. The No. 25 seed from Britain relied on his serve that reached 128 mph to set up some of his 40 winners in the match, and he broke the 10th-seeded de Minaur’s serve six times. Draper is the first British man to reach the U.S. Open semifinals since Andy Murray won the title in 2012. He will face either top-seeded Jannik Sinner or No. 5 Daniil Medvedev in Friday’s semifinals.

Karolina Muchova is back in the U.S. Open semifinals for the second straight year. She punctuated her return from wrist surgery by beating No. 22 Beatriz Haddad Maia 6-1, 6-4 on Wednesday. Muchova lost to eventual champion Coco Gauff in the 2023 semis in Flushing Meadows, then missed nearly 10 months because of a wrist injury she suffered during the tournament. The Czech returned to action in June just before Wimbledon, and a little more than two months later she is into her fourth career Grand Slam semifinal. Muchova will face top-seeded Iga Swiatek or No. 6 Jessica Pegula on Thursday in the semifinals.

Still to come Wednesday at the US Open

The remaining semifinal spots in men’s and women’s singles will be filled Wednesday. The last of the four singles matches on the schedule features top-seeded Jannik Sinner against No. 5 Daniil Medvedev, the 2021 U.S. Open champion. Sinner beat Medvedev in this year’s Australian Open final for his first Grand Slam title. The night session begins at 7 p.m. ET with top-seeded Iga Swiatek facing No. 6 Jessica Pegula, who is trying to advance past a Grand Slam quarterfinal for the first time in her career.

Here’s the full schedule of play for Day 10 at the U.S. Open.

Below are today’s winners so far. (For Day 9 results click here.)

Day 10 men’s singles, quarterfinal results

Jack Draper (25), Britain, def. Alex de Minaur (10), Australia, 6-3, 7-5, 6-2.

Day 10 women’s singles, quarterfinal results

Karolina Muchova, Czechia, def. Beatriz Haddad Maia (22), Brazil, 6-1, 6-4.

Day 10 women’s doubles, semifinal results

Lyudmyla Kichenok, Ukraine, and Jelena Ostapenko (7), Latvia, def. Hao-Ching Chan, Taiwan, and Veronika Kudermetova (10), Russia, 6-1, 6-2.

Zhang Shuai, China, and Kristina Mladenovic, France, def. Taylor Townsend, United States, and Katerina Siniakova (3), Czechia, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3.

Who are the betting favorites for the US Open?

Sinner, who became the favorite to win the U.S. Open title after the early eliminations of Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic, is a solid favorite in his match against Medvedev on Tuesday, according to BetMGM Sportsbook. The Italian is listed at -250, with Medvedev at +195. De Minaur is a -130 favorite against Draper, who is at +105. Swiatek, the 2022 U.S. Open women’s champion, is listed at -350 against Pegula (+275), while Muchova is at -250 against Haddad Maia, at +190.

What happened Tuesday at the US Open?

Aryna Sabalenka and Emma Navarro set one semifinal matchup with their victories. The No. 2-seeded Sabalenka repeated her Australian Open victory of Zheng Qinwen and did it emphatically, winning 6-1, 6-2. Navarro, the No. 13 seed, won 24 of the final 28 points in a stunning turnaround against No. 26 Paula Badosa to win 6-2, 7-5. No. 12 Taylor Fritz then became another first-time American major semifinalist, beating No. 4 Alexander Zverev 7-6 (2), 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3). He will play No. 20 Frances Tiafoe, who reached his second U.S. Open semifinal when No. 9 Grigor Dimitrov stopped playing with a leg injury in the fourth set. That guaranteed the U.S. will have its first man in the U.S. Open final since Andy Roddick in 2006.