Coco Gauff sets up US Open semifinal with Elena Rybakina after saving two match points against Mirra Andreeva.<\/p>\n
Published On 9 Sep 20269 Sep 2026<\/p>\n
American Coco Gauff saved two match points to beat Russian fifth seed \u2060Mirra Andreeva 2-6, 7-6 (7), \u20606-2 on Wednesday and reach the US Open semi-finals after recovering from a dreadful opening set.<\/p>\n
The 2023 champion had none of her usual firepower at first and was \u2060on the ropes in the tiebreak before she flipped the script and closed out the match with a forehand strike, dropping her racket to the court in joy and relief.<\/p>\n
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She faces second seed \u2060Elena Rybakina in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe motto of the match was just to fight,\u201d said Gauff.<\/p>\n
Andreeva looked completely at home in New York City\u2019s Arthur Ashe Stadium as she sprinted through the first four games, never allowing Gauff to set up a break-point chance in the opening set where the Russian had just five unforced errors to \u200c14 from her opponent.<\/p>\n
Gauff, who took a break in the locker room between sets, took inspiration from her compatriot Frances Tiafoe, who recovered from two sets and a breakdown on Tuesday night to reach the semi-finals on the men\u2019s side.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just had to reset. I came out not feeling the ball, giving her too many free points,\u201d said Gauff. \u201cI was thinking about Frances Tiafoe and how he came back yesterday. And we all want to do well in front \u2060of this crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gauff finally found some momentum in the second set and \u2060was serving for the match in the ninth game when old issues with her serve resurfaced. She produced three double faults, allowing her opponent to break back.<\/p>\n
Undeterred, Gauff recovered her poise and deployed a perfectly placed backhand to win a 39-shot \u2060rally, twice saving match point before forcing the third set with a forehand shot to the corner that Andreeva could not contain.<\/p>\n
She kept up \u2060the pace from there, and Andreeva flung her racket at her \u2060bench in disgust after dropping her serve in the third game of the decider. Gauff broke her to love in the seventh game to put the contest completely out of reach.<\/p>\n
She faces a formidable foe in Rybakina, who claimed the top ranking \u200cwith a win earlier in the day over Zheng Qinwen of China.<\/p>\n
Gauff and the Kazakh second seed have one win apiece in career head-to-head, with Rybakina winning their most recent encounter in the semi-finals in Toronto \u200clast \u200cmonth.<\/p>\n
\u201cElena \u2013 she\u2019s the new world number one so it\u2019s going to be a tough match,\u201d said Gauff. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to the battle. These are the moments you live for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff sets up US Open semifinal with Elena Rybakina after saving two match points against Mirra Andreeva.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,457,82,593,772,1690],"class_list":["post-889882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}