By Erik Gudris | Saturday, August 30, 2025
Photograph credit score: Robert Prange/Getty Photographs
“Welcome to the present.”
That’s what Taylor Townsend mentioned to an exuberant stadium crowd inside Arthur Ashe Stadium on Friday evening after she upset No. 5 seed Mirra Andreeva to achieve the US Open fourth spherical for the second time in her profession.
The 29 year-old Townsend placed on an all-court show to upset the rising 18-year-old Andreeva 7-5, 6-2 of their third spherical assembly.
Townsend is letting her tennis do the speaking after making headlines when she stood her floor after her final singles match when she defeated No. 25 seed Jelena Ostapenko who made controversial feedback to Townsend proper after their match.
“All I need to say is welcome to the present,” Townsend mentioned in her post-match interview when requested about her efficiency. “The job’s not completed, I’m going to proceed what I did tonight.”
Townsend, who acknowledged the controversy from her earlier match, thanked the group for all their help over the past two days.
“It’s greater than me, it’s in regards to the message, it’s in regards to the illustration. You guys noticed the true Taylor Townsend tonight,” she added.
Regardless of Andreeva coming in as the favourite, Townsend disrupted the younger teenager by selecting to finish many of the factors at web when she may.
The primary set proved a detailed contest between each gamers. At 5-all, Townsend discovered her benefit when Andreeva confronted break factors on her serve at 0-40. Andreeva made the error of bringing Townsend into the web the place she was very happy to shut out the purpose. Quickly, Townsend served out the set 7-5.
Andreeva managed to remain even with Townsend within the early levels of the second set. However when Townsend earned a vital break to finally pull forward 4-2, Andreeva on her half appeared unable to give you a sport plan to counter her opponent’s surge.
Townsend would seize a pivotal insurance coverage break for 5-2 because of a potent passing shot winner. Quickly sufficient, Townsend, with a physique serve that Andreeva couldn’t dig out of, closed out the favored win 7-5, 6-2.
The victory propelled Townsend into the fourth spherical of the US Open singles for the primary time since 2019 when she upset then No. 4 seed Simona Halep to achieve the identical stage.
When requested how she’s managed to maintain her focus in the previous couple of days, Townsend mentioned in her press convention that it hasn’t been arduous in any respect.
“It hasn’t been arduous in any respect. , I mentioned to my workforce, I’m made for such a stuff I actually really feel like, you realize, it wasn’t arduous, as a result of I stood in my reality. So there was, I didn’t need to defend something that I mentioned. What I mentioned, I mentioned, and I meant. So, you realize, for me, it was additionally good as a result of I had doubles the following day. So I needed to get proper again on the web page, as a result of on the finish of the day, I might by no means permit any drama or something on the skin to discourage me from what my purpose is once I step into the strains on the court docket. After I step into these gates, nothing that’s occurring on the skin issues.
So when it’s time to do the job, it’s time to do the job. And that’s what I feel is a testomony to being skilled, with the ability to block out what’s on the skin and while you step within the strains you deal with enterprise.”
Subsequent up for Townsend as she goals for the quarterfinals is unseeded two-time main singles champion Barbora Krejcikova.
