Coco Gauff’s dreams of a grand slam breakthrough on home soil came to a screeching halt on Tuesday night in the US Open quarter-finals against the in-form Caroline Garcia.
Garcia, the No 17 seed who has been the hottest player on the women’s tour all summer, took the match by the scruff from the start and didn’t let up in a straightforward 6-3, 6-4 win over the 12th-seeded American to reach her first career major semi-final only weeks before her 29th birthday.
