{"id":343625,"date":"2026-09-11T05:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T05:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343625\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T05:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T05:02:19","slug":"us-open-2026-top-4-seeds-set-for-womens-semifinals-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343625\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open 2026: Top 4 Seeds Set for Women&#8217;s Semifinals in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2026 US Open has its final four, as world No. 4 Coco Gauff survived No. 5 Mirra Andreeva to set a Thursday clash with freshly minted No. 1 Elena Rybakina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By ousting Cinderella qualifier Qinwen Zheng, Rybakina former No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/aryna-sabalenka-scores-100-weeks-world-no-1-wta-rankings\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">99-week reign<\/a> to claim her first top ranking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gauff scored a dramatic 3-6, 7-6, 6-3 victory over Andreeva to extend her 11-match winning streak. The 2023 US Open champ now returns to the semis with <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/us-open-main-draw-2026-preview-aryna-sabalenka\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"39138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">home-court advantage<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/49883562\/us-open-2026-american-jessica-pegula-aryna-sabalenka-semifinals\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/49883562\/us-open-2026-american-jessica-pegula-aryna-sabalenka-semifinals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">other semifinal<\/a> pits back-to-back defending champion Sabalenka against No. 3 Jessica Pegula in a rematch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/jessica-pegulas-career-best-run-leads-to-us-open-final\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2024 final<\/a>. Sabalenka owns the pair\u2019s 9-4 head-to-head record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Belarusian <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/aryna-sabalenka-vs-linda-noskova-2026-us-open-tennis-scores\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">rallied past<\/a> Wimbledon winner No. 6 Linda Noskov\u00e1 to reach a record sixth straight US Open semifinal, before Pegula edged No. 27 Emma Navarro in <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/jessica-pegula-vs-emma-navarro-2026-us-open-tennis-scores\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">three tense sets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m loving playing against her, because it\u2019s a battle, because it\u2019s a fight,\u201d Sabalenka said of Pegula. \u201cI love being under pressure.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2026 US Open semifinals kick off today at 7 PM ET (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/watch\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ESPN<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 US Open has its final four, as world No. 4 Coco Gauff survived No. 5 Mirra&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[121817,36472,83760,36476,128794,9,24,63,122,124,123,128795],"class_list":["post-343625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-2026-us-open","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-coco-gauff","tag-elena-rybakina","tag-mirra-andreeva","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-wta-rankings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}