In the past year, Sloane Stephens was triumphant at the US Open, this time, the final conclusion is in the district. The American tennis player must give the outsider Anastasija Sevastova defeated and the.
The title defender strikes the sail: last year’s US Open champion, Sloane Stephens failed in the quarter-finals in New York. The number three in the Tennis world lost a clear 2:6, 3:6 against world ranked 18. Anastasija Sevastova from Latvia. The 28-Year-old returned the favor for the narrow quarter-final defeat to Stephens in the same place almost exactly a year ago. At that time, on 5. September was Stephens with 6:3, 3:6 and 7:6. This Time Sevastova managed on the third attempt, the last Four at the US Open. It is thus for the first Time at a Grand Slam tournament in the semi-finals.
Only a few weeks after a smooth defeat against Stephens at the tournament in Montreal Sevastova dominated the fourth compared to the 4:1 lead in the second set. Then Stephens bucked again, could not turn the Match. This year’s French Open Finalstin missed at temperatures of more than 30 degrees, the available 4:4. A little later Sevastova made the victory after one of the many errors of Stephens perfect.
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