On every other day, Townsend, playing at her home images, would have been the favorite of the audience.
On Sunday, the Louis Armstrong Stadium drove low and low when she turned eight match points before she lost to Barbora Krejcikova in three sets to leave the ladies’ snonks in the last 16.
But at the same stage of the doubles, she played against a part -time crowd.
After all, Williams is a four-time champion at Flushing Meadows about the formats, wins back-to-back singles titles in 2000 and 2001 and earns two doublesitels next to Zuster Serena in 1999 and 2009.
In her career she has fought back from wrist and back injuries and is diagnosed with Sjogren’s syndrome, a car -immune disease that causes fatigue.
This was her first performance in the last eight of a Grand Slam since he reached the semi -final in the Singles in New York in 2017 and her first double -sided quarterfinals since winning Wimbledon in 2016.
But despite the raw reception when she walked in court, the competition was one -way traffic.
The best seeds were ruthless and won 12 of the first13 points to race in a 3-0 lead.
Their success was politely, if muted, applause and it was only in the fourth competition, when Williams rolled back the years with a bruising that broke out the winner of Siniakova’s Siniakova, which erupted the crowd in life.
Williams later held her second service match against 15, but Townsend and Siniakova, who only dropped six points on serve during the game, had one foot in the last four after 22 minutes.
The second set turned out to be more more competitive, with Williams and Fernandez both held their services, but with their opponents who sent 12 winners and only two non -forced mistakes, they could not get a foothold in the game.
Townsend and Czech Siniakova, who have to drop another set, fourth seeds Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens will be confronted for a place in the final.
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