serves the ball during her Women’s Singles fourth round match
against Alizé Cornet of France on Day Eight of the 2020 US Open at
the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 7,
2020 in the Queens borough of New York City. Al Bello/Getty
Images/AFP
Tsvetana Pironkova reached the quarter-finals of the US
Open on Monday, defeating France’s Alize Cornet in three
sets.
The unranked Bulgarian, who only returned to tennis this year
following a three-year absence from the circuit, secured her last
eight berth with a 6-4, 6-7 (5/7), 6-3 victory at the Louis
Armstrong Stadium.
Pironkova will now face third seed Serena Williams in the
quarter-finals on Wednesday.
States celebrates winning match point in the third set during her
Women’s Singles fourth round match against Maria Sakkari of Greece
on Day Eight of the 2020 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King
National Tennis Center on September 7, 2020, in the Queens borough
of New York City. Al Bello/Getty Images/AFP
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“It’s absolutely unreal, I really can’t believe it,” Pironkova
said.
“Especially that I pulled through at the end of the match — I
was exhausted.
“I didn’t think I had it in me but I just kept fighting and
fighting and it paid off.”
It is only the fourth time in Pironkova’s career that she has
reached the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam singles event, and marks
her first quarter-final appearance at the US Open.
Pironkova’s last tournament appearance before this year’s US
Open had been the 2017 Wimbledon championships when she exited in
the second round.
She gave birth to her son during her three-year break from
tennis but elected to return in 2020, only to see her comeback
plans disrupted by the coronavirus shutdown.
In New York she has claimed a couple of seeded scalps, defeating
10th seed Garbine Muguruza in the second round before knocking out
18th seed Donna Vekic in the third round.
AFP
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