Overview

• Townsend prevailed 7-5, 6-2 in 76 minutes on Arthur Ashe Stadium, making the US Open last 16 for the first time since 2019.
• The 29-year-old American is ranked outside the top 100 in singles but sits at No. 1 in doubles.
• Her forward-leaning tactics proved decisive, winning 21 of 29 points at net and striking 23 winners for her third career top-10 victory.
• Andreeva, 18, exits after a standout season that included WTA 1000 titles in Dubai and Indian Wells and second-week runs at the year’s first three majors.
• Townsend will face 2021 French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova next, and she framed the result as about representation after saying Jelena Ostapenko told her she had “no class” and “no education.”