"After I got back to 5-2 I had a little bit of an inkling it would be two sets ... even if I did lose the second, I wanted to set the tone for the third set," Navarro said. "I can't see the future, but maybe today I could a little bit."
Navarro, the No. 13 seed who upset defending champion Coco Gauff in the round of 16, won 24 of the last 28 points to finish the quarterfinal match in straight sets.
Navarro, who played two years at Virginia, is the third former women's college player in the past 40 years to make a US Open semifinal, following Oklahoma State's Lori McNeil in 1987 and UCLA's Jennifer Brady in 2020.
Navarro fought back from 5-1 down in the second set to finish off Spain's Paula Badosa in straight sets Tuesday at the US Open and advance to her first Grand Slam semifinal.
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