By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday September 5, 2022
Flushing Meadows, NY—Ajla Tomljanovic braved the New York evening and got here away with the victory that has seemingly ended the legendary profession of Serena Williams on Friday evening in New York.
Now the Aussie is driving the arrogance gained to a career-best US Open efficiency.
She battled previous Russia’s Liudmila Samsonova, 7-6(8), 6-1 in Louis Armstrong Stadium on Sunday evening to set a quarterfinal conflict with fifth-seeded Ons Jabeur.
It has been a robust season for Tomljanovic, a 29-year-old powerhouse that’s coming into her personal late in her profession.
She saved eight of ten break factors in opposition to Samsonova, together with seven set factors in a marathon sport at 4-5 within the opening set, which turned the match.
She would race away from there, profitable 11 of the ultimate 13 video games to take down one of many hottest gamers within the girls’s sport.
Samsonova was driving a 13-match profitable streak forward of Sunday’s tilt.
Tomljanovic has now reached consecutive Grand Slam quarterfinals for the primary time.
Soaking all of it in.Alja Tomljanovic has reached her second straight Grand Slam quarterfinal! pic.twitter.com/4LH8dC0YVF
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 5, 2022
“Simply feels actually good to again up a win that I feel acquired numerous consideration,” Tomljanovic stated. “Simply felt prefer it’s been a extremely large 48 hours. I did not actually really feel like myself at present the entire day. I do not know, simply felt a bit bit drained. After that sluggish begin, I simply did not wish to exit like that.
“Picked myself up, fought again actually exhausting, performed some high quality tennis after that.”
Tomljanovic stated that her victory over Serena Williams on Friday – and the aftermath – was a draining affair. But it surely left her hungry to show herself and make it depend. In seven eight profession appearances in New York previous to this yr she had solely reached past the second spherical as soon as, and by no means previous that.
“It has been a bit powerful simply because lots of people got here as much as me personally,” she stated. “That felt very nice. On the similar time it did drain my power a bit bit.
“However I feel my will to go additional on this match was actually robust and I did not wish to cease simply after what occurred on Friday evening. I believed I deserved extra. I undoubtedly wished to go for extra.
“I dug deep as a result of I felt like I had extra left in me.”
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