Defending champion Iga Swiatek made it to her third final in four years at Roland Garros.
Carlos Alcaraz will be backed to extend his winning run at the Grand Slams to 16 matches following triumphant French Open and Wimbledon campaigns.
Images from the US Open women's semi-finals on Thursday.
Poland's world number one Iga Swiatek swatted aside 25th seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-4, 6-2 with a near-flawless performance to reach the round of 16 for a fourth straight year at the U.S. Open on Saturday.
French Open champion Iga Swiatek dropped the lid of the Suzanne Lenglen Cup as she shook the trophy in the air.
Images from Day 10 of the 2023 French Open at Roland Garros in Paris on Tuesday.
Serbia's Novak Djokovic beat Italy's Lorenzo Musetti 6-4 6-2 to reach his first Olympic final on Friday and will bid for gold in a blockbuster clash with Carlos Alcaraz.
Images from the US Open women's singles first round matches, at Flushing Meadows, New York, on Tuesday.
Images from the Olympics tennis action at the Roland Garros, Paris, on Wednesday.
Can Iga Swiatek challenge Rafael Nadal's French Open record?
Swiatek took the prestigious Coupe Suzanne-Lenglen for a joyous spin around the enchanting Paris.
World No 8 Muchova withdraws from Aus Open with wrist injury
The Czech was a player transformed after a medical timeout in the second set and rallied to secure a place in her first Grand Slam semi-final, where she will meet the winner of the clash between Americans Jennifer Brady and Jessica Pegula.
Iga Swiatek beat Czech 10th seed Marketa Vondrousova to reach the Cincinnati Open semi-finals.
The five top contenders for the women's title at Wimbledon, which starts on Monday.
Brady saw four match points slip through her fingers as she served it out nervously but finally celebrated the win when Muchova fired a forehand long.
IMAGES from the Women's Singles Final of the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris on Saturday.
Coco Gauff became the first American to win a US Open singles title since Sloane Stephens in 2017.
Novak Djokovic reclaimed the world number one ranking from Carlos Alcaraz
World No 12 Petra Kvitova returned to court dressed for the French Open but was happy to triumph in the women's draw at an all-Czech tournament on Thursday as the sports world starts to slowly return from the novel coronavirus shutdown. The Prague tournament - played among the top Czech men's and women's players but without fans and with ball boys and girls wearing gloves and face masks - was one of the first after professional tennis was suspended in early March as the world went into lockdown to contain the spread of the virus.
Osaka will play Jennifer Brady for the title.
Swiatek will face Czech Karolina Muchova in the final.
Five top contenders for the women's title at the US Open.
IMAGES from Day 9 of the US Open, at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing Meadows, New York.
This year's US Open runs from Aug. 28-Sept. 10.
Alcaraz outlasts Hurkacz, Ruud stunned at Canadian Open
Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff, are a handful of contenders ready to swoop in
IMAGES from the Australian Open matches played on Wednesday.
Iga Swiatek used an outfit change to help her reset after a poor start and beat China's Zheng Qinwen.
Big-serving Elena Rybakina will aim to retain her title but other players have emerged as serious contenders:
Carlos Alcaraz downed Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-4, 6-4 to book an Indian Wells semi-final place
Eighth seed Jabeur faced a tougher time against Russian Gracheva as she survived a double break in the decider to set up a meeting with Olympic gold medallist Belinda Bencic, who got the better of Karolina Muchova 6-3, 4-6, 7-5.
Serena Williams shook off some COVID-19 layoff rust to grind out a 7-6(6), 3-6, 7-6(0) win over Dutch qualifier Arantxa Rus on Monday to move into the third round of the Western and Southern Open.
Kim Clijsters and Venus Williams fell at the first hurdle
Andy Murray and Emma Raducanu clinched hard-fought wins in their first round matches at Indian Wells.
Photos pf tennis action across the USA on Sunday.
In a rematch of their tumultuous 2018 US Open decider, Osaka underlined her status as the new queen of women's tennis and soaked up the cheers from the Rod Laver Arena crowd as fans returned to the Grand Slam after a five-day lockdown.
A round-up of all the tennis action from around the globe.
Jennifer Brady spent two weeks in hard quarantine gathering mental strength for her tilt at a maiden Grand Slam title and will hope there is plenty in reserve when she takes on Naomi Osaka in Saturday's Australian Open final.
Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka have long moved on from their tempestuous 2018 US Open title match but that will do nothing to dampen the suspense ahead of their blockbuster Australian Open semi-final on Thursday.
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