GAUFF 2-6 7-6(7) 6-2. 2 MPS SAVED. SF vs RYBAKINA.

NEW YORK — Coco Gauff is into the US Open semifinals the hard way. The No. 4 seed beat No. 5 Mirra Andreeva 2-6, 7-6(7), 6-2 on Wednesday, 9 September 2026 — WTA official scores page LS73992540, status Finished. Match time: 2 hours, 19 minutes on Arthur Ashe Stadium, per WTA match reaction news/4574376 the same day. That is the board Extra files. Not a preview. Not a merge with the Rybakina–Zheng clinch Extra. This slug is Gauff–Andreeva only.

WTA 4574376 (Noah Poser, 9 Sep) locks the crisis line Extra will not rewrite: Gauff fought back from a set down and saved two match points in the second-set tiebreak before closing 7-6(7), 6-2. Andreeva took the first set 6-2. Gauff took the breaker and the third. The parentheses on the second set are the tour’s printed line — 7-6(7) — matching the HED. Extra invents no mid-tiebreak ball-by-ball beyond what that WTA piece states: two match points saved in the second-set TB. No fabricated point scores inside the breaker. No invented crowd clock.

WTA’s Finished sheet for LS73992540 prints the same three-set shape: Andreeva 6 / 6 / 2, Gauff 2 / 7 / 6, with the second set decided in a tiebreak. Featured stats at Extra’s verify pass (WTA scores page): Gauff 4 aces / 12 double faults; Andreeva 3 aces / 5 double faults; break points converted Gauff 4/5 (80%), Andreeva 4/9 (44.4%); total points Gauff 95/189 (50.3%), Andreeva 94/189 (49.7%). Extra does not invent serving scripts beyond that board.

WTA 4574376 is H2H-hard: Gauff improved to 6-0 against Andreeva on the WTA Tour, with three of those wins coming from a set down. This was another one. The series stays a shutout. Extra does not invent earlier scorelines for this slug beyond that tour frame. Form frame from the same piece only: Gauff has now won 11 straight matches overall and 20 of her last 22 dating back to Wimbledon, reaching four consecutive semifinals in that span. Those are attributed WTA lines, not desk forecasts.

She will face No. 2 seed Elena Rybakina — who, per the same WTA piece, will rise to World No. 1 on Monday — in the semifinals. WTA 4574376 states it will be their third meeting and that the head-to-head is tied 1-1. That locks the next Extra pairing for this half. The Rybakina–Zheng quarter-final and No. 1 clinch live on us-open-rybakina-zheng-no1-qf. Do not merge bodies. This Extra is Gauff’s escape and the Ashe SF setup; that Extra is Rybakina’s clinch. Cross-link only as the locked opponent, not as a pasted ranking essay.

Gauff’s US Open semifinal history, again from WTA 4574376 only: second US Open semifinal, and the first since she won the 2023 title. Extra does not invent 2024–2025 New York exits beyond that “first since 2023 title” lock. Path colour stays off this sheet. The score, the two match points, the 6-0 H2H, and the 1-1 SF setup versus Rybakina are the file.

WTA 4574376 ends “More to come…” at Extra’s verify pass. There is no on-court quote block and no press-room transcript in the published piece yet. Desk rule for this slug: quotes only from that WTA piece. Therefore no player quotes in this Extra until 4574376 adds them. No invented filler. No fabricated stand-up. Photo credit on the WTA page is Jeff Dean/USTA via Getty Images — agency; not rights-cleared for Extra reuse.

The still on this Extra is Coco Gauff practicing at the 2026 US Open by Nrbelex / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), dated 29 August 2026 — practice, not this quarter-final. Caption must say practice / not this QF. Keep Nrbelex. No rights-clear 2026 QF match still found. VIDEO=no. No AI imagery.

Nailed down, 10 September 2026, 00:45 GMT. PATH /sport/us-open-gauff-andreeva-qf. DESK_ID us-open-gauff-andreeva-qf. Beat SPORT. Verification: WTA LS73992540 Finished 2-6, 7-6(7), 6-2; WTA 4574376 two match points saved in second-set TB, 6-0 H2H, SF vs Rybakina 1-1; ESPN and Reuters path as needed. Photo: Nrbelex / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) — practice, 29 Aug 2026, not this QF. Distinct from us-open-rybakina-zheng-no1-qf. NTH MERIDIAN does not invent player quotes.

WTA LS73992540, WTA 4574376, ESPN, Reuters