 Arena Sabalenka vs Chen Wenjiang is the fourth quarterfinal for the ladies US Open for 2023. And both players have been very good to get to this stage. Zheng entered the tournament as a 23rd seed and would take on Polar Oskar in the first round. This was an easy win, getting through in straights, 6-1-6 love. In the second round she'd take on Kanepi and after dropping the second set would fight back to win 6-2-3-6-6-2. In the third round she'd take on Bronzetti, who had taken out Krajikova in the first round. And again after dropping the second set, Zheng would fight back to win 6-3-4-6-6-4. In the fourth round she'd take on the fifth seed Jabur, who had really struggled to get to this stage and it showed with Zheng overpowering Jabur in the end 6-2-6-4 to advance to her first grand slam quarterfinal. Sabalenka entered the tournament as a number two seed and would take on Zenevskaya in the first round. But this was an easy win, getting through in straights 6-3-6-2. In the second round she'd take on Burridge and again an easy win, getting through in straights 6-3-6-2. In the third round she'd take on Burl, who had just taken out Plyshka in the previous round. And again Sabalenka destroys her 6-1-6-1. In the fourth round she'd take on Kazakina, the 13th seed. And again Sabalenka on fire, destroying her in straights sets 6-1-6-3 to advance to another quarterfinal at the US Open. These two have actually never faced off before and it's kind of interesting because of course Sabalenka in the last probably five years has been at the top of the game. Zheng's just starting to rise up the game and maybe just hasn't had a chance to play Sabalenka just yet. She has played a lot of top 10 players though, including players like Shviantec and of course playing Jabur. So it's going to be interesting to see how Zheng matches up against Sabalenka's power. If Zheng's going to win this one, she needs to take over the baseline. She can hit a very hard serve in a very hard ball just like Sabalenka so she's going to have to do that against Sabalenka, try and move Sabalenka around and maybe even come to the net with a little variety as well. Sabalenka's going to win this one, she needs to attack the serve. She does it every single time. She did that so well against Kazakina, especially the second serve. Something that Jabur couldn't really do against Zheng, which was a little bit of a shame, couldn't attack the second serve as much, but Sabalenka, she's going to have to attack every time she gets a second serve to look at. What a fun matchup. Two very similar players in the way they like to play and two players are going to try and dominate the baseline. We're going to get a lot of winners in this one, I feel, but I have to go with Sabalenka. Based on experience, I feel like Zheng, quarter-finals is great, but I think a semi-final might be one too many. I think Sabalenka right now, she's number one in the world as of next week. I feel like she's just in much better form and playing so much better this year. I feel like she's going to get the win, but let me know in the comments below who's going to make the semis.