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Sloane Stephens in U.S. Open semis;

Carreno Busta wins

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She’s No. 83 now with 13 Sharapova in the fourth iard easily handled his first
wins in her last 15 matches, round and was trying to match of the tournament
becoming just the seventh reach the first major semi- against an opponent who
player outside the top 50 final of her career. She re- was not a qualifier.Now
to reach the U.S. Open ceived treatment from a Carreno Busta will face No.
women’s semifinals since trainer late in the first set 17 Sam Querrey of the U.S.
the rankings began in 1975. Tuesday for a problem with or No. 28 Kevin Anderson
Her only previous Grand her upper right leg. of South Africa, who were
Slam semifinal was at the But she seemed to have scheduled to play Tuesday
Australian Open four years recovered well when she night. None of those three
ago.The No. 9-seeded Wil- won the second set and men remaining on the bot-
liams hoped to give the jumped to a 3-1 lead in the tom half of the draw has
host country half of the fi- third.“I thought I had her ever played in a major
nal four — and reach the somewhere in the begin- final. Carreno Busta trav-
U.S. Open semifinals for the ning of the third. I was in eled a tame path to the
first time since 2010 — by control,” Sevastova said. quarterfinals, becoming
beating No. 13 Kvitova. The “But, yeah, she came the first man to face four
U.S. had a chance to claim back and played some qualifiers in a Grand Slam
all four spots, with No. 15 great winners, and she was tournament during the
Madison Keys and 20th- back.”The men got a first- Open era, which began in
Pablo Carreno Busta, of Spain, celebrates after winning his seeded CoCo Vandewe- time Grand Slam semifinal- 1968. He didn’t drop a set
match against Denis Shapovalov, of Canada, during the fourth ghe playing their quarter- ist when Pablo Carreno
round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017, against any of those op-
in New York. final matches Wednesday. Busta beat No. 29 Diego ponents and stayed per-
Associated Press Sevastova beat Maria Schwartzman of Argentina fect against Schwartzman
6-4, 6-4, 6-2. while appearing in his sec-
The 12th-seeded Span- ond major quarterfinal.q

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