 Marina Sabalenka vs Madison Keys is the second semi-final for the ladies US Open for 2023. And both have been really impressive to get to this stage. Keys started the tournament as the number 17 seed and will take on Roos in the first round. This is no problem getting through in straights 6-2-6-4. In the second round she take on the lucky loser Wickmeyer. And again this was no problem getting through in straights 6-1-6-2. In the third round she take on the 14th seed Sampson over who'd been having a very good season on the hard courts. But after losing the first set it was all Keys getting through in straights 5-7-6-2-6-2. In the fourth round she take on the number 3 seed Pagula who she'd lost to in their only meeting. But this time it was all Keys demolishing Pagula in straights 6-1-6-3 to advance to another quarter-final the US Open. In the quarter-finals Keys would take on the Wimbledon champion and number 9 seed Von Drussever who had battled to get to the quarter-finals. But Keys was too strong getting through in straights 6-1-6-4 to advance to the semi-finals. Sabalenka enter the tournament as the number 2 seed and will take on Zenevsky in the first round. But this was an easy win getting through in straights 6-3-6-2. In the second round she take on Burrage and again an easy win getting through in straights 6-3-6-2. In the third round she take on Burrell who had just taken out Plyskera in the previous round and again Sabalenka destroys her 6-1-6-1. In the fourth round she take on Kazakina the 13th seed and again Sabalenka on fire destroying her in straight sets 6-1-6-3 to advance to another quarter-final the US Open. In the quarter-finals Sabalenka will take on Zhang in the 23rd seed who had just taken out Anshibara in the previous round and after an easy first set Sabalenka would wrap it up in straights 6-1-6-4 to advance to the semi-finals. These two have played three times before with Sabalenka leading the head to 2-1 including a win a couple of months ago at Wimbledon in the quarter-finals where she won in straight sets but the only time they've ever played in a hard court was actually five years ago in Cincinnati Sabalenka got the win then but it's been too long to call that one relevant. If Keys is going to win this one she's going to have to be strong on the baseline aggressive with that forehand and serve big. These players are exactly the same player so she's going to have to get the baseline first and move Sabalenka around which is something Zhang did a little bit in the second set of her quarter-final. Sabalenka's going to win this one she needs to do exactly what Keys has to do is take the baseline hit big forehands maybe even come to the net she has been doing a lot of drop shots recently which I love to see because she's not all about just the power she can mix it up and take people by surprise of course the serve is also massive for her. I'm expecting a lot of aces and a lot of big serving in this one a lot of big forehand winners as well this is an explosive semi-final I've got to go with Sabalenka 3 I know she has a semi-final curse but I feel like against Keys in a big moment like this Sabalenka is going to get the win in a third set though I think it's going to be very close but let me know don't let me know down the comments below who's making the US open for