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Leylah Fernandez Elina Svitolina US Open 2021 live score latest updates - GETTY IMAGES

Leylah Fernandez Elina Svitolina US Open 2021 live score latest updates – GETTY IMAGES

06:11 PM

BREAKING: Raducanu start time confirmed

Just getting confirmation that Emma Raducanu’s quarter-final against Belinda Bencic will be at 5pm on Arthur Ashe stadium.

Telegraph Sport will have live coverage of the match. Until then, our tennis correspondent Simon Briggs has been talking to Virginia Wade, who was the last British woman to lift the US Open title 53 years ago.

Read more here.

05:57 PM

Latest update

Just when it looked like Medvedev was going to sail through to the semi-finals, Van de Zandschulp has overcome his tired legs to win the third set and force a fourth.

Medvedev still the favourite at this stage though!

05:41 PM

What happened the last time Fernandez and Svitolina played each other?

05:31 PM

Latest update

Before Fernandez and Svitolina come out, Daniil Medvedev plays in the first men’s quarter-final against Holland’s Botic Van de Zandschulp.

The second seed has been in complete control and leads 6-3, 6-0, 2-1.

05:15 PM

Good evening

Hello and welcome to coverage from the US Open of the first women’s quarter-final between Leylah Fernandez and Elina Svitolina.

Following the heroics of Emma Raducanu yesterday, Fernandez is back in action and determined to take another major scalp. Fernandez, who turned 19 on Monday, has defeated Grand Slam champions Naomi Osaka and Angelique Kerber in her last two matches and now plays fifth seed Svitolina.

“Seeing all these teenagers, the youngsters doing so great at the U.S. Open… is eye-opening I think to the world, to the tennis world,” Fernandez said after her win over Kerber.

“There is not only like one group of tennis players but there is a new wave of young generations that’s coming up, and just trying to make an impact in the tennis game as much as they can.

“I did have to pinch myself a little bit to see that it actually happened, but I knew that my tennis, my level of tennis is there. It’s just a moment of time, opportunity, and I’m glad that I was able to get this opportunity now and that I was able to showcase what I can do in front of these players.

“Even if I would have lost, I would have been proud of myself with the way that I played, the way that I fought. I was lucky enough to get the win today and just getting this experience. It’s my first quarter-finals in a grand slam. I’m just going to enjoy it at 100 per cent, and tomorrow is going to be a new day.”

Svitolina swept past former Wimbledon champion Simona Halep to book her spot in the quarter-finals.

The Ukrainian Olympic bronze medallist, who is still searching for a first grand-slam title, is yet to drop a set in the tournament and wrapped up a 6-3, 6-3 victory on Sunday.

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