{"id":18030,"date":"2025-09-02T06:04:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18030"},"modified":"2025-09-02T06:04:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:04:33","slug":"osaka-crushes-gauff-at-us-open-as-sinner-swiatek-roll-into-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18030","title":{"rendered":"Osaka crushes Gauff at US Open as Sinner, Swiatek roll into quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"
Naomi Osaka delivered a statement win at the US Open by thrashing home favourite Coco Gauff in the last 16 on Monday as Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek charged into the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

The Japanese star powered past third seed Gauff 6-3, 6-2 in a highly-anticipated but lopsided fourth-round showdown of former US Open champions on the Labor Day holiday in New York.<\/p>\n

Osaka broke in the very first game in front of an expectant Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd and was untouchable on serve in a ruthless display against a misfiring Gauff, who hit 33 unforced errors.<\/p>\n

“This is my favourite court in the world and it means so much to me to be back today,” said Osaka, who looks primed for a tilt at a fifth Grand Slam.<\/p>\n

“This is kind of uncharted territory at this point of my career,” added Osaka. “I’m just enjoying it. I’m having fun.”<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old, a two-time US Open champion, is enjoying her deepest run at a major since winning her second Australian Open title in 2021.<\/p>\n

It has been a painstaking climb back towards the top of the game for Osaka, who returned to tennis last year following the birth of her daughter in 2023.<\/p>\n

“I was in the stands two months after I gave birth watching Coco and I just really wanted an opportunity to come out here and play,” said Osaka, who also beat a 15-year-old Gauff at the US Open in their first meeting in 2019.<\/p>\n

Gauff conceded the mental toll of a challenging first week and the efforts to remodel her faltering serve had weighed heavily on her.<\/p>\n

“I think emotionally how much this week was, I think today I just stepped in, and I maybe was a little bit empty,” she said.<\/p>\n

Osaka plays Czech 11th seed Karolina Muchova in Wednesday’s quarter-finals. Muchova beat Ukrainian 27th seed Marta Kostyuk 6-3, 6-7 (0\/7), 6-3 and is seeking a third straight semi-final at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n

Reigning men’s champion Sinner obliterated the unpredictable Alexander Bublik 6-1, 6-1, 6-1 in just 81 minutes to start the night session.<\/p>\n

Bublik, the only player to beat Sinner this season aside from Carlos Alcaraz, had not dropped serve all tournament but was broken eight times by the world number one.<\/p>\n

“He had a very tough match the last match, today he didn’t serve as well as he usually serves, and I broke him early,” said Sinner. “Overall, I’m very happy.”<\/p>\n

Bublik smiled as he embraced Sinner at the net after the defeat, and could be heard telling the Italian: “You’re so good, this is insane.”<\/p>\n

Sinner is trying to become the first man to defend the US Open since Roger Federer won the last of his five successive titles in 2008.<\/p>\n

He advances to an all-Italian match-up with 10th seed Lorenzo Musetti, who demolished unseeded Spaniard Jaume Munar 6-3, 6-0, 6-1 to reach his first US Open quarter-final.<\/p>\n

Swiatek brushed off Russian 13th seed Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-3, 6-1 in barely an hour to extend her Grand Slam winning streak to 11 matches as she targets a second US Open crown.<\/p>\n

“I felt like in the beginning she played fast but later on I felt in my bubble, in the zone,” said Swiatek.<\/p>\n

The Polish second seed faces Amanda Anisimova in a repeat of the Wimbledon final, which Swiatek won 6-0, 6-0. The American thumped Brazilian 18th seed Beatriz Haddad 6-0, 6-3.<\/p>\n

Men’s eighth seed Alex de Minaur sealed his passage to the quarter-finals with a 6-3, 6-2, 6-1 win over Swiss qualifier Leandro Riedi.<\/p>\n

De Minaur put the world number 435 to the sword with eight breaks as he swept into a sixth Grand Slam quarter-final. He has never made it past the last eight though.<\/p>\n

The Australian next meets Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime, who defeated Andrey Rublev 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 to reach his first Grand Slam quarter-final in three years.<\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime’s best run at a Grand Slam came when he advanced to the semi-finals of the US Open in 2021.<\/p>\n

“It feels even better than the first time,” Auger-Aliassime, 25, said of returning to the last eight in New York.<\/p>\n

“I think the first time at 21 I was kind of on my way up. To have a few setbacks, injuries, struggles with confidence… to come back for a second time to the quarter-finals here, it feels much better.”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Naomi Osaka delivered a statement win at the US Open by thrashing home favourite Coco Gauff in the last 16 on Monday as Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek charged into the quarter-finals. The Japanese star powered past third seed Gauff 6-3, 6-2 in a highly-anticipated but lopsided fourth-round showdown of former US Open champions on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}