The perpetual hand-wringing over the future of American women’s tennis can take pause, at least for a few days. Les will be here shortly, in the meantime here’s Bryan Graham on success for the US women at this year’s tournament: Her only previous Grand Slam semifinal was at the Australian Open four years ago. Open women’s semifinals since the rankings began in 1975. 83 now with 13 wins in her last 15 matches, becoming just the seventh player outside the top 50 to reach the U.S. ![]() “When I started my comeback at Wimbledon, I could have never even dreamed of something like this happening, having these results,” Stephens said in an on-court interview. Her ranking fell to 934th before she reached consecutive semifinals at hard-court tournaments in Toronto and Cincinnati in August. Stephens had left foot surgery in January and didn’t return to the tour until Wimbledon in July. ![]() Sidelined from tennis for nearly a year and unsure what she could accomplish just last month, the unseeded American advanced to face the winner of the match between Grand Slam champions Venus Williams and Petra Kvitova on Tuesday night. Stephens edged No16 seed Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (4) on Tuesday to reach the final four of a major tournament for the first time since 2013. Sloane Stephens’ comeback from injury will keep going all the way to the US Open semifinals. ![]() ![]() Just a reminder that the US already have a semi-finalist, one Sloane Stephens.
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