having beaten Coco goof in the fourth round the 13th seed is now through to her first Grand Slam semi-final at the US Open beating Paula bedsa in straight sets on Tuesday on it is an outstanding run for Navaro and a year full of improved results but what makes it even more incredible is that she had never won a US Open match previously that makes her just the sixth woman in the last 40 years to reach the semifinal in New York having never picked up a solitary match win at the tournament beforehand that is the third main draw appearance for Navaro who previously played in 2021 and 2023 to she lost to Christina mcale on her tournament debut three years ago and was then beaten by Magdalena fresh in last year S edition of the event the 13th seed has been a woman transformed in New York this year though beating the likes of Goff and Bosa to reach the biggest match of her career can forget rukan incredible run in 2021 making just her second Grand Slam appearance after her Wimbledon debut months before the Brit came through qualifying to reach the main draw do ruk kunu stunned Belinda benic in the quarterfinals to reach the last four and backed that up by beating Maria Sakari and Lila Fernandez to lift the title dot much like roduku andrescu had never played a USU US Open main draw match before 2019 losing in the first round of qualifying the previous two years but a surge in 2019 propelled her inside the top 20 of the WTA rankings and in her first Grand Slam quarterfinal she beat Elise Mertens to reach the last fourth andru would go on to lift the title beating benic and Serena Williams do heading into the 2009 US Open Belgian star Wick Mayer was unseated and had lost in round one to Katerina shotnik in her tournament debut the previous year but in a run out of nowhere she found herself in the semifinal of the event in 2009