Incredible Caroline Garcia.

Building on the momentum of her excellent performances in recent weeks, the Frenchwoman overcame the "slightly hostile atmosphere" of the Arthur-Ashe court to dominate the American Cori Gauff head and shoulders on Tuesday evening in the quarter-finals of the US Open.

Here she is qualified for her first Grand Slam semi-final, and she does not intend to stop there, as she said at a press conference after her victory.

How did you get to grips with the context, playing against an American on the huge Arthur-Ashe court?

It was not easy, the atmosphere was a bit hostile!

We expected it, I was ready, but you never know how bad it's gonna be.

The

night session

, it moves a lot, there is a lot of noise, basic, and each time she made good points, or that there were important games, there was really an energy that went up.

The goal was to be focused on yourself and to play my game. My first game was not super clean, but there were important points and I managed to break it from the start.

She served pretty well, very strong, but I was there.

It's important to make good starts to put pressure on the opponent from the start (…) I went on the court before the first quarter-final, during the warm-up, to feel the atmosphere a little, because I hadn't had the opportunity to train there and I hadn't seen a single match there this year.

I wanted to see, it's a very impressive court, especially with the roof closed.

He is huge.

You are going to play your first Grand Slam semi-final at 28, how do you feel?

I'm super happy, it's another step in my career.

I work hard for it, I dreamed about it, and today we can check it in the list.

There are new challenges coming up and the charm of tennis is that it never stops if you don't have a limit in your head.

What does it change compared to living this at 18?

I'm not that old!

Your career is sometimes made of ups and downs, you have to accept everything, take what you can take.

There were complicated and painful passages.

We managed to bounce back well, to have confidence in what we were doing.

It's great fun for me, for the team.

We always want to go for more.

You've known your next opponent, Ons Jabeur, since your junior days.

What do you expect?

We faced each other in the semi-finals at Roland-Garros and in other junior tournaments.

She always had this special game.

It was very rare, in juniors, to play against someone who made so many drop shots, so many backhand slices.

She was already very difficult to play.

And now she is even more so.

She is in the Top 5 in the world, she reached the final at Wimbledon… She has made a lot of progress.

But it's nice to see that we have reached the highest level and that we continue to progress.

She stopped me several times on the road to a Grand Slam title as a junior and I can't wait to play against her again.

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