Regardless of a simple fourth-round win over Diana Shnaider, one thing had irritated Jessica Pegula.
“Essentially the most annoying factor is that folks suppose I’ve a butler,” the 30-year-old American mentioned on Monday.
“That I get chauffeured round. That I’ve a non-public limo. That I fly on a non-public jet in all places.
“I’m undoubtedly not like that.”
The misconceptions about her way of life come from her household’s wealth. Based on Forbes journal, her father Terry, an oil and fuel tycoon, is price $7.7bn (£5.9bn), making him the 371st richest individual on this planet.
She just isn’t the one billionaire’s daughter within the final 4 of the US Open on Thursday.
On the opposite facet of the draw is Emma Navarro. Her father Ben owns a bank card empire and, in response to Forbes, is price $1.5bn ( £1.1bn).
They’re numbers that put even the $3.6m (£2.7m) prize cash for the Flushing Meadows champion – the most important money prize in tennis – within the shade.
However there may be some solution to go earlier than Pegula and Navarro can e-book in for a box-office, big-money, all-American battle for the title.
Two-time Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka, the best seed remaining within the draw, has proven sturdy type en path to her assembly with Navarro, whereas outsider Karolina Muchova has a contented behavior of claiming large scalps as she prepares to face Pegula.
BBC Sport seems on the type and the tales of the 4 semi-finalists.
