Coco Gauff v Carolina Garcia: Blockbuster US Open quarter-final pits home hope against red-hot Frenchwoman

The home hope against the form player, Coco Gauff’s US Open quarter-final showdown with Caroline Garcia has deservedly been handed the primetime slot on Tuesday at Flushing Meadows. The pair will face off at 7pm local time, a midnight start in the UK, and it has all the ingredients for a potential classic on the Arthur Ashe Stadium. Ad In one corner, you have an 18-year-old American, with Gauff already a household name but looking to win her first Grand Slam after going so close at the French Open.

US Open'It will be a great challenge' — Garcia 'super excited' to play Gauff in quarter-finalsYESTERDAY AT 23:44 In the other corner stands Garcia, the 28-year-old Frenchwoman who has won 12 matches in a row having clinched the Cincinnati title, and is 30-4 since winning Bad Homburg in late June. “I will not say something very special can happen. I will say we were probably saying, ‘Good things can happen again’,” said Garcia, when explaining what has gone so right this summer.

“Bad Homburg was the first tournament I won this year. The first round was three sets, I lost the first set 6-2 and I was not playing good at all, trust me. Garcia finds 'sweet spot' to reach quarters, Kyrgios-Medvedev box contrasts — US Open diary 'It will be a great challenge' — Garcia 'super excited' to play Gauff in quarter-finals Garcia continues 2022 resurgence to beat Kvitova in Cincinnati Masters final “At one moment you just say to yourself, ‘You have to go for it’.

You miss, you miss, but you have to do something. You have to change, you have to find a way to improve. And I think that tournament was really the week a lot of things changed.