Azaranka beat last year's US Open winner Samantha Stosur 6:1, 4:6, 7:6.
World number one Viktoryja Azaranka of Belarus has reached the US Open semifinals for the first time in her career.
Azaranka traded blows with No.7 Samantha Stosur of Australia for nearly two and a half hours on a blustery Arthur Ashe Stadium court to beat the foul weather and her opponent in a 6:1, 4:6, 7:6 thriller.
It is the Belarusian’s seventh victory over Samantha Stosur who won the US Open last year.
World’s number one racket (by the Women’s Tennis Association ranking) will play either Russia’s Maria Sharapova (No.3) or France’s Marion Bartoli (11) in Friday's semifinals and will remain atop the world rankings regardless of how much further she goes in the tournament.
In the mixed doubles Olympic champion Max Mirny of Belarus and his partner Liezel Huber of the U.S. advanced into the US Open mixed doubles semifinal. In the quarterfinals the Belarusian-American top-seeded tandem outplayed Spanish pair David Marrero and Nuria Vives 6-1, 7-5 to face an international duet Kveta Peschke (the Czech Republic) and Marcin Martowski (Poland) in the semifinal.
The final Grand Slam tournament will finish in New York on 9 September.
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