Jennifer Brady reaches first US Open semi-final for beating Yulia Putintseva 6-3 6-2
Jennifer Brady will represent America in this year’s US Open semi-final for the first time in her career, which is also her first Grand Slam semi-final after beating Yulia Putintseva 6-3 6-2 on Tuesday, 8 September 2020.
The 25-year-old will next face fourth seed Naomi Osaka who defeated Shelby Rogers in Tuesday’s other quarter-final.
Brady, who hasn’t dropped a set at Flushing Meadows, is the first former college player to reach the women’s quarter-finals at the US Open since Gigi Fernandez in 1994.
In contrast to Brady’s joy, Putintseva cut a frustrated figure at the other side of the net. The 23rd seed was clearly irked by the fact that she was not able to get into her groove against a player she had beaten twice before.
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“Today I was a lot more aggressive, especially on the first ball,” Brady said after her victory.
“I was trying to be as aggressive as possible. The last couple of times that I played her, I got caught into playing her game.”
Brady admitted she arrived on the court for the quarter-final with nerves flying around but said she was pleased with how she managed them.
“I tried to treat it like all of the other matches,” she says.
“I tried to pretend like it was a first-round match. I was happy with the way that I started, I was able to find momentum and build from it.”
