.It has actually been actually an efficient U.S. Open up for the host nation thus far.
Four United States men-- Taylor Fritz, Brandon Nakashima, Tommy Paul, and Frances Tiafoe-- arrived at the fourth cycle. Fritz is actually already into the quarterfinals after pounding Casper Ruud in 4 bent on Sunday afternoon.
On the women's side, Coco Gauff as well as Emma Navarro are going head-to-head in a marquee fourth-round matchup and also Toronto champion Jessica Pegula is actually resembling a really real label competitor..
There is actually yet one more United States man still active at the Billie Jean King National Ping pong Center-- one who is so much more improbable and also under-the-radar.
Donald Young-- indeed, the same Donald Young that arrived at the U.S. Open 4th around in both 2011 and 2015-- is into the blended increases quarterfinals along with Taylor Townsend. The 35-year-old, who final participated in single people in September of 2023, is actually right now a pickleball gamer and will hang up his noises at the end of this competition.
It's an event that figured to be over after one match, however Youthful and also Townsend have actually improbably rattled a set of victories to get a place in the last eight. They knocked off Andres Molteni and Asia Muhammad in the first round just before defeating Hugo Nys as well as Nadiia Kichenok." It's been actually a number of years," Youthful pointed out in a job interview for the USA Open site. "I've been viewing it on television the final couple of years. They behaved enough to allow me participate in one last opportunity. To play with Taylor, it is actually outstanding. It's sort of a full-circle instant for me.".
Offered just how well the whole entire United States contingent is actually performing this week, that knows just how much they can go?Ricky provides to 10sballs. com and also maintains his very own ping pong website, The Grandstand. You can observe him on Twitter at @Dimonator.