Rybakina roars past Osaka into the last eight of the US Open

[p]The flawless victory for [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/rybakina-elena/UDzElXdm/"]Rybakina[/a], who won ‌Wimbledon in 2022 and this year's Australian ‌Open, booked a last-eight clash with Olympic champion [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/zheng-qinwen/xCyEhjAS/"]Zheng Qinwen[/a] and left the Kazakh one ‌win away from becoming world ⁠number one ‌for the first time.[/p][embed guid="b7f9ad7f-0bd6-4507-9d9f-b97f61585fef" url="https://x.com/usopen/status/2097074997252567130" social-type="twitter" /][p]Second seed Rybakina raced through the ​opening set in 22 minutes, converting two of her three break-point opportunities ​before sealing it with a booming serve to leave two-times New York champion Osaka ⁠on the ropes ​at Louis Armstrong Stadium.[/p][p]The 13th-seeded Osaka, who had arrived in style in a fur-collared overcoat that featured oversized signage, a mural-like ‌city scene and a portrait, showed greater resistance early in the second set, but Rybakina soon seized control again.[/p][p]Osaka clutched her left leg at 2-2 in the second set, still feeling the effects of an Achilles niggle that flared up in the third round, but the 28-year-old managed to ‌save a break point and stay in ​the fight.[/p][p]Rybakina continued to heap pressure on ‌Osaka with her deep groundstrokes and earned the decisive break in the seventh game when her Japanese opponent hit a forehand into the net, before she closed ⁠out the ⁠match in 66 ‌minutes.[/p][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/osaka-n-MDM4BKiA/rybakina-e-UDzElXdm/?mid=YTRJZrTH"]Click here for more on the match[/a][/b][/p][image alt="Key stats" id="91b05261-6cf2-479f-8519-37fcec05b3ac" credit-line="Flashscore" guid="4f120c4a-6e56-4c03-8f1e-a0bd453b1ce3" original-width="2160" original-height="2700" /]