Summary

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  • Now: women's semi-final - Serena Williams beaten 1-6 6-3 6-3 by Victoria Azarenka

  • Naomi Osaka beat Jennifer Brady 7-6 (7-1) 3-6 6-3 in earlier semi-final

  • Winners will meet in Saturday's final at Flushing Meadows

Live Reporting

Jonathan Jurejko and Mike Henson

  1. Game set and match Osaka

    Brady 6-7 (1-7) 6-3 3-6 Osaka

    Naomi Osaka is into the US Open final and a possible rematch with 2018 opponent.

  2. Match point Osaka

    Brady 6-7 (1-7) 6-3 3-5 *Osaka

    Jennifer Brady is still rolling the dice. She comes up sixes with a monster winner in the first rally.

    But Naomi Osaka blocks back a backhand winner - all feel and direction rather than power - on the next point.

    But are the gremlins into Osaka's serving action now. A double fault to 15-30.

    A gimme of a pont to Osaka next. That trademark forehand blat brings up match point.

  3. Brady holds

    Brady 6-7 (1-7) 6-3 3-5 *Osaka

    Jennifer Brady is given a pass ot 30-0 as Osaka bunts her return into the net.

    The American comes forward and put away a side-swiping forehand to move 40-0 up.

    A crunched backhand return from Osaka puts the brakes on the runaway leader, but not for long.

    Osaka will serve for the match next.

  4. Osaka holds

    *Brady 6-7 (1-7) 6-3 2-5 Osaka

    Two hours ticks by on the courtside clock. And, forks at the ready, because Jennifer Brady is almost done.

    The match has come off the boil after bubbling furiously from the off and the hold is a relatively simple one for Naomi Osaka.

  5. Brady holds

    Brady 6-7 (1-7) 6-3 2-4 *Osaka

    Jennifer Brady hangs tough. But in the words of the sandwich board preacher, is the end nigh regardless?

  6. Brady takes it to deuce

    *Brady 6-7 (1-7) 6-3 1-4 Osaka

    Brady drags the match to deuce and, momentarilty at least, out of danger.

  7. Osaka forces break points

    *Brady 6-7 (1-7) 6-3 1-4 Osaka

    Naomi Osaka win the first point of the game agaisnt serve. 0-15.

    Jennifer Brady chooses this point to dust off the dropper. And it is swallowed by the net. 0-30.

    Here comes 15-40 and two break points.

    If Jennifer Brady loses this game it is surely curtains for her..

  8. Gigi Salmon
    BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra tennis commentator

    Jennifer Brady has done very little wrong. But she has not been helped by the net, which has been in the favour of Osaka.

  9. Osaka holds

    *Brady 6-7 (1-7) 6-3 1-4 Osaka

    Naomi Osaka's pin-point wide serve survives the Hawkeye review to bring up 40-15 for it's owner.

    And the net cord that helped her to a break in the previous game is still on her side.

    Jennifer Brady slumps forward as she races forward in vain pursuit. Is the loss of that game the uppercut to the solar plexus that ends her challenge? She is only one break adrift in the decider but the momentum is with Osaka.

  10. Osaka breaks

    Brady 6-7 (1-7) 6-3 1-3 *Osaka

    Naomi Osaka gets a little look at 15-30 on the Jennifer Brady serve.

    A thick snag of net cord breaks the Japanese's way to hand over two break points.

    And Osaka takes the first - Brady going back into her shell for the first time as she shies away from a big point and tentatively prods into the net,

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  11. David Law
    BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra tennis commentator

    It's a special match this.

    It's wonderful the way Brady has dealt with the occasion and played her own game.

  12. Osaka holds

    *Brady 6-7 (1-7) 6-3 1-2 Osaka

    Naomi Osaka streaks through the chalk with a peach of a backhand to move to 30-15 and then lands a lovely one-two punch with a wide serve and then a backhand back the other way for 40-30.

    Into a rally.

    And a Hammer of Thor winner down the line gives Osaka the game. The quality is still stratospheric.

  13. Brady holds

    Brady 6-7 (1-7) 6-3 1-1 *Osaka

    "Sorry!"

    Jennifer Brady's apology for her skew-whiff ball toss rings around the empty stands.

    She doesn't look that sorry as she rains down another massive serve to see off the danger.

  14. Brady taken to deuce

    *Brady 6-7 (1-7) 6-3 0-1 Osaka

    Jennifer Brady has a spot of stickiness to cope with here. Naomi Osaka winkles out deuce with some jagging angles and popping pace...

  15. Osaka holds

    *Brady 6-7 (1-7) 6-3 0-1 Osaka

    SLAP!

    That is the sound of a gauntlet landing at Jennifer Brady's feet. Naomi Osaka holds to love to open out the third set.

  16. Osaka to serve

    Brady 6-7 (1-7) 6-3 0-0 *Osaka

    Here we go then. A one-set shoot-out for a place in the US Open final.

    Arthur Ashe is deserted like Main Street as dawn pistols are drawn.

    Let's see where the mojo resides...

  17. David Law
    BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra tennis commentator

    I didn't think Osaka looked rattled until those last moments. It shows the level she has been pushed to play at.

    This match is an absolute treat.

  18. Game and second set Brady

    Brady 6-7 (1-7) 6-3 *Osaka

    Jennifer Brady marches to 40-0 and three set points.

    Osaka claws one back off the table with a cracking forehand, but she can't zap the second out of existance.

    Wide off the Japanese racquet and we are heading into a decider...

  19. Brady breaks

    *Brady 6-7 (1-7) 5-3 Osaka

    A tight-rope walk of a final rally, both players pushing the limits and staying the course as nerves fray and minds cloud with doubt and hesitation.

    And Brady comes out on top!

    She will serve for the set next...

  20. Break point Brady

    Brady 6-7 (1-7) 4-3 *Osaka

    Jennifer Brady bets the house, car and mother-in-law's pet chihuahua on a forehand down the line in the opening rally and gets lucky with a net cord in her favour.

    If she doesn't hit it that hard, she maybe doesn't get that slice of luck.

    Osaka strays longs and Brady has break point at 30-40...