After failing to reach any Grand Slam semifinals before her 30th birthday, Jessica Pegula reached her second consecutive U.S. Open semifinal Tuesday in New York.

The fourth-seeded American became the first player to punch her ticket to this year's semis with a 6-3, 6-3 win over unseeded Barbora Krejcikova.

Pegula, 31, is just the second player whose career began in the Open Era (since 1968) to make her first two Grand Slam semifinal appearances after turning 30.

"I feel like I'm just really comfortable (at the U.S. Open)," Pegula said in her on-court interview. "It's crazy to look now and think that I'm really comfortable coming out here playing on big courts and big matches on the best court in the world. ... It's something that 10 years ago, I never thought I'd be good at this. I gues

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