With huge upset, Mexico’s Renata Zarazúa advances in US Open

Mexico’s Renata Zarazúa pulled disconnected a large upset astatine the US Open tennis tourney connected Monday, eliminating Madison Keys — ranked No. 6 successful the satellite — successful stirring come-from-behind fashion.

Zarazúa, 82nd successful the WTA satellite rankings, gave Keys — the reigning Australian Open champion — fits the full match. She lost the archetypal acceptable 6-7, despite 37 errors by Keys that were technically unforced but often consequences of the Mexican’s relentless pressure.  

After falling down 0-3 successful the 2nd set, Zarazúa turned it astir to triumph 7-6 successful a tiebreak, earlier claiming the last acceptable 7-5 to advance.

Afterward, Zarazúa thanked those successful Arthur Ashe Stadium successful New York who supported her:

“Mexico is simply a state wherever determination are not galore tennis players, but I could decidedly perceive a batch of Mexicans supporting me, truthful that was truly nice,” she said. “I was trying to absorption connected the court, which seemed excessively large to maine … erstwhile I retire, I’ll beryllium precise blessed astir this.”

The triumph is the biggest triumph of Zarazúa’s career and her first-ever triumph implicit a Top 10 opponent. Yolanda Ramírez — doubly a finalist astatine the French Open successful the aboriginal 1960s — is the lone different Mexican pistillate to decision a Top 10 opponent.

Monday’s three-hour, 10-minute marathon was besides Zarazúa’s first-ever triumph connected the main tribunal of a Grand Slam event. 

Her different appearances connected Center Court came successful the 2020 French Open (a 6-3, 0-6, 6-2 nonaccomplishment to Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina), astatine Wimbledon 2024 (a 7-6, 6-3 nonaccomplishment to Britain’s Emma Raducanu) and astatine this year’s Australian Open (a 6-2, 6-3 nonaccomplishment to Italy’s Jasmine Paolini).

US Open Tennis paid tribute to the 27-year-old Mexico City native connected its societal media relationship and the WTA Tennis website published an extended post-match report.

Keys suffered done an error-strewn performance, arsenic the American made 89 unforced errors and deed 14 treble faults.

The precocious fig of errors suggests Keys outgo herself the match, but James Hansen of the sports mag of the New York Times, The Athletic, thought otherwise. 

“Though they went down connected the stats expanse arsenic mistakes, a important fig of the 80-plus unforced errors that Zarazúa drew from Keys’ racket were successful world the merchandise of accumulated pressure,” helium wrote.

Zarazúa volition look Diane Parry of France, presently ranked No. 107, successful the 2nd circular connected Wednesday, with a coagulated accidental of advancing past the 2nd circular of a Grand Slam tourney for the archetypal clip successful her career.

With reports from Milenio, El Universal, CNN en Español and BBC Sport