Home favourite Jessica Pegula staged an incredible comeback to set up an enticing women’s final against world number two Aryna Sabalenka.

Sabalenka is the first women’s player since Serena Williams in 2019 to reach back-to-back singles final at Flushing Meadows.

The Belarusian is the hot favourite to go one better this year after dismissing home favourite Emma Navarro in the first semi-final.

Arthur Ashe Stadium
5pm BST start (12pm ET)
M. Purcell [7] & J. Thompson [7] vs K. Kraweitz [10] & T. Puetz [10]

Not before 8pm BST (3pm ET)
J. Pegula [6] vs A. Sabalenka [2]

How to watch the US Open on TV and streaming in the UK

Sky Sports has the broadcasting rights to show the US Open live from Flushing Meadows.

Gigi Salmon is presenting the coverage alongside the likes of Tim Henman, Laura Robson, Martina Navratilova, Marion Bartoli, Karthi Gnanasegaram, Feliciano Lopez, Naomi Cavaday and Jonathan Overend.

How to watch the US Open on TV in the US

ESPN have the broadcasting rights to show the tournament.

When does the US Open start and end?

The US Open started on Monday, August 26, and finishes on Sunday, September 8.

When do the US Open finals take place?

The women’s final takes place on Saturday, September 7 at 9pm UK time. The men’s final is the following day, at 7pm UK time.

Where is the US Open held?

The home of the US Open is the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York.

What is the US Open prize money?

The US Open total prize pool is $75 million (£58.3m), up 15 per cent on 2023.

The men’s and women’s singles champions will each take home £2.8m and the runners-up will earn £1.4m.

Prize money for progression through the earlier rounds is as follows: first round (£77,813); second round (£108,937); third round (£167,296); round of 16 (£252,890); quarter-finals (£412,405); semi-finals (£778,123).

What happened to Emma Raducanu?

Emma Raducanu was knocked out by Sofia Kenin in a 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 first-round defeat on the Grandstand court.

It looked like it could be a short outing as Kenin rattled through the first set, but Raducanu made a match of it by sending it to three sets.

A poor service game midway through the decider proved costly as the former champion headed home.

Having played just one tournament since Wimbledon and skipping the Olympics to focus on her preparation for the US Open, she will be desperately disappointed to fall at the first hurdle and questions remain over the direction of her career.

Which British players were in the draw?

• Jack Draper lost Jannik Sinner in the semi-finals on Friday, September 6

• Daniel Evans lost to Alex de Minaur in the third round on Saturday, August 31

• Katie Boulter lost to Jessica Bouzas Maneiro on Thursday, August 29

• Harriet Dart lost to Marta Kostyuk in the second round on Wednesday, August 28

• Emma Raducanu lost to Sofia Kenin in the first round on Tuesday,  August 27

• Jan Choinski lost to Roberto Carbelles Baena in the first round on Monday, August 26

Who are the defending US Open champions?

Last year, Novak Djokovic equalled Margaret Court’s record of 24 major titles with a brilliant performance over Daniil Medvedev. But the defending champion’s quest for a 25th grand slam singles title was ended on Saturday night by Australia’s Alexei Popyrin.

In the women’s final, Coco Gauff stormed back from a set down to beat Aryna Sabalenka and claim her first grand slam title but was thwarted this year in the fourth round by her compatriot Emma Navarro.

Latest odds

Men’s winner

• Jannik Sinner 4/9

• Taylor Fritz 9/1

• Frances Tiafoe 14/1

Women’s winner

• Aryna Sabalenka 4/11

• Jessica Pegula 9/4

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With 20 games remaining in their season, the San Diego Padres look like a strong bet to make the MLB postseason. They have a three-game lead for the National League’s top wild-card playoff spot. And they still have a shot at catching the Los Angeles Dodgers, behind in the NL West by five games.

However, if San Diego ends up missing out on the postseason by one game, Thursday’s 4-3 home loss to the Detroit Tigers might be the game that gets circled as the one that let it get away.

The Padres took a 3-0 lead into the ninth inning. Closer Robert Suarez with his 1.93 ERA, 51 strikeouts in 56 innings and 31 saves took the mound. A series sweep looked comfortably certain, though the middle of the Detroit lineup was batting in the ninth.

Suarez grooved his first pitch down the middle of the strike zone, which Justyn-Henry Malloy lined for a single. Pinch-hitter Jace Jung drew a six-pitch walk after taking the first pitch for a strike. Suarez then got Spencer Torkelson to pop up, giving him an opportunity to get out of the inning unscathed.

Unfortunately, Suarez then walked Colt Keith — again on six pitches, and again after getting ahead with a first-pitch strike. Bases loaded, one out. Uh, oh. Yet Suarez followed up by striking out pinch-hitter Kerry Carpenter with a 101 mph fastball that was outside of the strike zone. Two outs.

All Suarez had to do was get Parker Meadows out to finish the game. Even if he allowed a base hit and a run or two to score, the Padres could still win. The third-year veteran fell behind Meadows with a 3-1 count. Would he walk in a run? Yet Meadows fouled a ball off for strike two. Two outs with two strikes.

Then, with his sixth pitch of the at-bat, Suarez left a fastball out over the plate to Meadows. It was a 101 mph pitch, but the rookie outfielder smacked it to the opposite field and two rows behind the fence for a grand slam and a 4-3 lead.

The Padres still had a chance to tie or win in the bottom of the ninth, facing Tigers reliever Tyler Holton — not regular closer Jason Foley. But Detroit had the ninth inning that the Padres would’ve preferred, getting the first two batters out. San Diego did put the tying run on base with a Xander Bogaerts single, giving NL Rookie of the Year favorite Jackson Merrill an opportunity to boost his award candidacy.

Pitching Merrill low and away, Holton’s slow sweeper got the Padres center fielder to fly out to center to end the game and tag San Diego with what could end up stinging harder by the end of the season. By itself, losing the third game of a series after winning the first two to a .500 Tigers team might not look so bad in the big picture of a season. But in September, with a postseason spot at stake, that’s not a game the Padres can afford to lose.

Overreaction? Perhaps it will look that way in three weeks if the Padres are in the postseason and make a playoff run. But if San Diego barely misses out, that ninth inning could look pivotal. Painfully so.

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