A lot has happened for Australian tennis players at Flushing Meadows in the past 38 years. There has been heartbreak and breakthroughs, near-misses and titles. Sam Stosur went all the way in 2011, Lleyton Hewitt in 2001, Pat Rafter in 1997 and ‘98.
One thing, though, hasn’t happened. Australia has not had both a man and woman in the final eight of the US Open singles competition at the same time. Not since Pat Cash and Wendy Turnbull in 1984.
