Leylah Fernandez

São Paulo, uh, l- predicted last eight.

Leylah Fernandez, uh, Quevedo will be her opponent in the quarterfinals.

Blinkova, uh, uh, Sharia.

Uh, the top bo- that's the top of the draw.

Loae and Sierra, and Bouzas Maneiro and Podosa is an all-Spanish affair if we went to draw.

Now this just shows you the highlight of this tournament, how pr- pretty poor it is.

Leylah Fernandez is the number one seed, and she's currently number 31 in the world rankings.

So I don't think anyone's gonna be worrying about this tournament, thinking how deep they went in the, uh, in the US Open.

2021, she made the quarters.

2021, she made the semis and lost to Fernandez.

2022, she made the semis and lost to Iga Swiatek.

2023, she made the final and lost to Coco.

Billionaires are...

Billionaire and money aside, Pagula has been playing well.

She dropped a set early in the tournament to Leila Fernandez, and that was a little concerning because sometimes Pagula can drop a set in a slam in almost...

in previous iterations of slams, almost at all four of them, kind of forget all of the winnings she's done to get her to such a high seat at a slam and before you know it she's out and you're like how can you not put this kind of consistency towards you or that you display year-round at a grand slam when it matters most but so far so good for bagula I don't know if I have anything else to say about that match.

Firstly, I'm devastated.

Uh, not because I don't like Coco Gauff, I do like Coco Gauff, but I really wanted Miranda and Leylah to win.

That was my prediction.

I had her going really far.

I just feel like this was a situation where, uh, Coco Gauff really wanted to make sure that a w- a, a lady can get all the way to the final of the US Open.

There was that extra element of pressure, I think, with how well the US players have done, and she is one of the ones who flies the flag for the US.

So she did incredible considering all of those circumstances and the opponent she's playing because Miranda and Leylah is a top five player in the world, without a doubt, and on her day, one of the very best.

Oh, she's definitely one of the very best, but I've gotta say that Miranda and Leylah really impressed me as well, though.

There's a game, she had three doubles, two in the net and then sailed one.

You know, so she was kind of looking at, at her box a little bit, but, you know, Leylah Fernandez down the first set.

You know, Navarro loses the first set.

She's showing some mettle kind of getting through.

Now we can take that off the box.

well the other uh the last section to get to is just you know we got pagula and navarro playing in a quarterfinal matchups two americans going down in two different stories right for pagula it's great she's back in the mix chasing that elusive first major battled against leila fernandez and then handle business against an informed Serena Castea.

For Emma Navarro, it's just been great to see her get back to this point.

It was a rough start to the year results-wise, but she's found it.