PEGULA THROUGH. THIRD STRAIGHT SEMI. SABALENKA NEXT.

Jessica Pegula is in a third straight US Open semifinal. The result is closed. She beat Emma Navarro 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the quarter-finals. The next name on her side of the draw is Aryna Sabalenka. That is the file.

Reuters published the confirmation on 9 September 2026, from the 8 September match at Flushing Meadows. This Extra uses that wire to check the facts. It does not lift Reuters sentences. It does not invent a quote for either American. It does not add aces, winners totals, or rankings that the verification file did not lock.

The score is the spine. Navarro took the first set 6-3. Pegula took the second 6-4. Pegula took the third 6-3. First to two sets in women’s singles. Pegula got there. Navarro did not. No tiebreak is on this sheet because none is required to state the result.

Pegula is listed as the 26th seed on the Reuters file. Navarro’s seed is not on this Extra. If another desk wants to print it, they can find their own line. This one will not guess a number.

The head-to-head note Reuters logged: Pegula’s fifth straight win over Navarro, including a match at last month’s Cincinnati Open. That is a streak confirmation, not a character study. It does not mean Navarro cannot win the next one. There is no next one at this US Open. The quarter-final is over.

On the ball, Reuters put numbers that this Extra will carry and no others. Each player hit five double faults. Pegula won the decider with an extra break. Pegula finished a long exchange with a forehand winner to level the match at one set apiece. Those are the locked strokes. Everything else — who wanted it, who looked tired — is colour. Colour is not a line judge.

Sabalenka is the semifinal. Reuters called it a rematch of the 2024 US Open final. That is a tournament-history fact, not a prediction for 2026. This Extra does not forecast a final, a title, or a scoreline that has not been played. Sabalenka’s own route into the last four is not restated here beyond the meeting itself.

The schedule claim on the verification file: the Pegula–Navarro quarter-final started more than an hour later than planned, after Frances Tiafoe’s long win. Tiafoe’s match is a separate closed result. Delay is not a score. It is logged as Reuters’ account of when the women’s quarter-final began. Duration of Tiafoe’s match in hours and minutes is not copied onto this Extra.

What is not confirmed on this file: any on-court quote. Any locker-room quote. Any prize-money figure. Any ranking-point table. Any medical timeout. Any claim that the match was a battle of billionaires. American media can nickname a draw. This desk does not adopt a nickname as a fact.

Pegula has now reached the US Open semifinals in 2024, 2025 and 2026. That is what third straight means. It is not a career retrospective. It is not a list of every Pegula major. It is three New York last-fours in a row, ending, for now, with a date against Sabalenka.

Navarro is out. That sentence is the whole of her tournament from here. This Extra will not write her off beyond the quarter-final she lost.

If you want atmosphere, wait for a feature. If you want a winner of the tournament, wait for the weekend. If you want what is nailed down on the morning of 9 September 2026: Pegula d. Navarro 3-6, 6-4, 6-3; third straight US Open semifinal; Sabalenka next. Verification: Reuters, 9 September 2026. Sources are for checking. They are not for pasting.

DESK_ID us-open-pegula-navarro-sf-sabalenka. Verified against Reuters, 9 September 2026: Pegula reaches third straight US Open semifinal. Confirmation used: Pegula d. Navarro 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, Flushing Meadows, 8 September; 26th seed; fifth straight vs Navarro including Cincinnati; five double faults each; extra break in the decider; 2024 final rematch with Sabalenka. No invented quotes or stats. NTH MERIDIAN does not invent details.