In the 2024 US Open women's singles top four, No. 6 seed Pegula defeated Czech player Muchova 1-6, 6-4, 6-2. Pegula successfully advanced to the first Grand Slam championship match in her career and will face Sabalenka in the final. Mukhova was the runner-up at the French Open in

In the 2024 US Open women's singles top four, No. 6 seed Pegula defeated Czech player Mukhova 1-6, 6-4, 6-2. Pegula successfully advanced to the first Grand Slam championship match in his career and will face Sabalenka in the final.

Mukhova was the runner-up at the French Open in 2023, but she underwent surgery due to a wrist injury. After 10 months of rest, she became an unseeded player at this US Open. Mukhova gave full play to her usual skills in the first set of the game. Pegula fell into a passive situation in the first set.

Whether it was cutting the ball, serving to the net, or volleying the ball, Mukhova played her best in the first set. In the first set, Mukhova only spent 28 minutes to score 30 of the 44 points, winning 6-1. Down.

"I was mediocre, she was playing unbelievable, and Mukhova made me look like a tennis beginner," Pegula recalled after the game. "I was about to cry because it was so bad. Embarrassing, she ruined me”.

html Mukhova continued her good start in the second set and won eight of the first nine games of the game, leading 2-0; however, the game took a turn for the worse after Mukhova made a forehand volley error, and Pegula broke back and succeeded. The score was evened to 2-2, and they succeeded in a double break in the set. They won the second set 6-4, and the two sides battled to 1-1.

"After we won the second set, I thought, OK, this is really lucky, I'm still playing." Pegula said, "It comes down to some small moments that can turn the momentum of the game."

Pegula went on a killing spree in the final set, breaking Mukhova's serve again at the beginning, leading 3-0, and successfully broke again in the 8th game. 6-2, Pegula won another victory, and in the end she advanced to the US Open final with a total score of 2-1.

After the game, according to official statistics, this was the 25th time since the open era that the US Open women's semi-finals started 6-1 or 6-0; however, Pegula became the first since Sabalenka in 2023 and 2020. Azarenka and Kuznetsova in 2004, the first person to come back and win after losing the first set with a score of 6-1 or 6-0, the fourth in history.

Pegula's victory in this game also means that American players will participate in both the men's and women's finals. This is the first time this has happened in a Grand Slam competition since Wimbledon in 2009; as for the last time this happened at the US Open This situation dates back to 2002, when Serena Williams defeated Venus Williams and Sampras defeated Agassi.