Regardless of an easy 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 stated on Monday.
“That I get chauffeured round. That I’ve a non-public limo. That I fly on a non-public jet all over the place.
“I’m positively not like that.”
The misconceptions about her way of life come from her household’s wealth. In accordance with Forbes journal, her father Terry, an oil and gasoline tycoon, is value $7.7bn (£5.9bn), making him the 371st richest particular person on the earth.
She will not be 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, based on Forbes, is value $1.5bn ( £1.1bn).
They’re numbers that put even the $3.6m (£2.7m) prize cash for the Flushing Meadows champion – the largest money prize in tennis – within the shade.
However there’s some method 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 kind en path to her assembly with Navarro, whereas outsider Karolina Muchova has a cheerful behavior of claiming massive scalps as she prepares to face Pegula.
BBC Sport appears to be like on the kind and the tales of the 4 semi-finalists.