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What’s up dudes?! And welcome to the US Open 2023 – day nine! It’s quarter-final time, baby!
We start today with a confrontation for which the technical term is “an absolute stonker”. Coco Gauff has improved hugely this past year or so and given she was pretty handy already, that makes her a very serious proposition. Her forehand is still a little suss but it’s better than it was, and perhaps more than anything she seems to have found equilibrium, absolutely loving her tennis, while competing like an absolute lunatic, absolutely certain that if she keeps doing the right things, that first Grand Slam title will be along soon enough, so there’s no point sweating the precise timing. But, given the elimination of Iga Switaek, against whom she’s 1-7, she’ll know that her time might be now.
