Johanna Konta’s hopes of becoming the first British woman to get to the semi-finals at all four Grand Slam events at the Open era were hurried by Elina Svitolina at the US Open on Tuesday.
Svitolina defeated Konta to create it through for her second successive Grand Slam semi-final and she will now face the winner of this match between Serena Williams, continuing her quest to get China’s Wang Qiang, and a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam singles title.
Winner of all four of her previous meetings together with Konta, Even the Svitolina, prolonged her dominance over the Briton by wrap up the game in 1 hour and 40 minutes.
“I think we were equally striking the ball well, it was rather even, I am just very happy with the way I handled the tension. I was just carrying one point at a time and trying to remain calm,” explained Svitolina.
“For all the Ukrainians it is not so easy once you are growing up, you do not have much opportunity to travel and that is the reason why we are so determined when we get them.”
It was nip and tuck in bright states on Arthur Ashe with fifth seed Svitolina keeping in touch with the Briton during a few rallies before nudging. Nevertheless, the 16th seed stayed calm and calm, benefiting from a Svitolina mistake to strike back.
The Ukrainian, that has reached a piled the pressure to get a second break of serve then successfully merged it.
Konta, who had been the very first British player because Jo Durie in 1983 to move this deep at Flushing Meadows, held within the next game and then rescued a initial set point thanks to a instinctive angled drop volley, but she was not able to stop her attempted backhand chopped return sailing long to hand Svitolina the opener.
After falling down 3-2 within another set, with celebrity superfan Tom Hiddleston again in her corner, Konta was needing some inspiration. And she provided it with a second of genius thanks to some sumptuous drop shot that enabled things to level up.
In a mirror-image of their group, Svitolina fell back since the error-count of Konta mounted along with growing frustration.
The No 1 saved two match points during her second service game, however Svitolina continued her competitive tactic on function to finish the hopes of Konta.
By getting right back at Flushing Meadows she followed her first appearance in the last four of a major.
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