US Open live: Jannik Sinner battles Lorenzo Musetti after Amanda Anisimova stuns Iga Swiatek to set up Naomi Osaka semi-final – UK Times

This is the first all-Italian grand slam quarter-final in history.

The good news for Sinner is he has a 15-0 record against Italian players.

The defending champion fires back-to-back aces to get us started.

Alexander Bublik could not believe what he saw from Jannik Sinner after the defending US Open champion marched into the quarter-finals with a 6-1 6-1 6-1 win against him in just 82 minutes.

Bublik was the last player to beat Sinner, and the only player other than Carlos Alcaraz to win against him this season, when he did so on grass at Halle shortly before Wimbledon in June.

Bublik was left celebrating as he won a game in the third set. The 28-year-old almost fell into Sinner’s arms at the net and had the World No 1 laughing along when he said to him: “That was so good. I’m not so bad, but you’re the GOAT”.

Jannik Sinner is on a 25-match winning streak at the hard-court grand slams and was on dominant form in beating Alexander Bublik 6-1 6-1 6-1 in the fourth round.

He plays fellow Italian Lorenzo Musetti for the first time in two years. Musetti is through to the US Open quarter-finals for the first time, his best result at a hard-court major.

Naomi Osaka just wanted an opportunity to get back the US Open after giving birth to her first child two years ago.

Here she is, back in a grand slam semi-final for the first time since winning the Australian Open in 2021.

Naomi Osaka is back in the US Open semi-finals! The two-time champion takes down the spirited efforts of Karolina Muchova, winning 6-4 7-6 (7-3) to set up a mouthwatering clash with Amanda Anisimova.

A great effort from Muchova, who required treatment after the first set but battled on. But what a result for Osaka, who is back in the US Open semi-finals for the first time in five years!

She is back! An emotional win for Osaka.

Muchova lost just six points on serve in the first set against Osaka.

They all came in the final game as Osaka broke to love to take the opening set of their quarter-final.

Muchova was cruising through the service games, but Osaka strikes when it counts.

And Muchova has also called the trainer, heading off court for treatment.

Amanda Anisimova says she hopes the way she bounced back from the Wimbledon final defeat sends a positive message on her to respond to difficult moments.

“I feel like I was really able to bounce back from it really quickly,” she said. “Maybe a few years ago I wouldn’t have done the same as well as I have this time but it’s definitely nothing I’ve ever experienced before. I never lost 6-0, 6-0, and then to lose 6-0 6-0 in a Grand Slam final was a lot to experience.

“Today I’m just really, really proud of myself. I feel like I really made a point to myself and also maybe to other people that, like, if you really put a positive mindset out there or just try and work through things, then you can have a positive outcome. I feel like I was really able to do all the right things, so I’m really happy.”

In her press conference, Amanda Anisimova reveals she watched the Wimbledon final and her 6-0 6-0 defeat to Iga Swiatek last night, before facing her against in the US Open quarter-finals.

“Last night, nobody told me to, but I watched them back, as painful as it was. Just to see, what I can avoid or what went wrong. Then after I had to watch some good highlights to remove that from my brain.

“I think it was important for me to kind of see what happened last night going into today’s match. Back then it was just kind of, like, move on. It’s just kind of a freak thing that happened.

“I have family and friends. I still have the hard court swing to go. So it was kind of, just move on to the next.”

On what went wrong: “I think the serve what made the difference. She was winning, I guess, more points from her serve, and I struggled a bit to sometimes make the first serve in, and she returned the ball from second serve. So I guess that made a difference.”

On facing Anisimova after the 6-0 6-0 at Wimbledon: “It didn’t really matter for me. I think everybody knows how Amanda can play. She didn’t play well in Wimbledon, but it’s not like she’s always going to do the same mistakes or feel the same.

“I know that she’s a good player. She can play great tennis. So I was ready for a tough match.”

Shortly after giving birth to her daughter Shai in July 2023, Naomi Osaka returned to the US Open.

Her comeback to the Arthur Ashe Stadium, and a court where she had lifted two of her four grand slam singles titles, was to sit in the stands and watch Coco Gauff play Karolina Muchova in the semi-finals. As Gauff advanced on her way to winning the US Open, Osaka set herself a target: she was determined to reach that stage again.

Now, the four-time grand slam champion is back in a major quarter-final for the first time in four years