NEW YORK — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek beat Jessica Pegula 6-3, 7-6 (4) in a women’s quarterfinal match Wednesday night in which both players struggled to hold serve.
The players combined for 10 breaks, five by each, in 12 games in the second set before the tiebreaker. Swiatek broke serve seven times in the match and Pegula six.
Swiatek advances to face No. 6 Aryna Sabalenka in the semifinals.
The eighth-seeded Pegula was stopped in her bid for a first major semifinal.
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