Williams, a seven-time singles and 14-time girls’s doubles Grand Slam champion, is taking part in her twenty fifth US Open.
She gained the primary of her two girls’s doubles titles in New York with youthful sister Serena in 1999, three years earlier than Fernandez was born.
Addressing Williams in her on-court interview, former US Open singles runner-up Fernandez stated: “Seeing you play on courtroom with the identical large smile you had again then is so inspirational and motivates me to maintain going. I like that you just love tennis.”
It’s the first time that Williams has reached the quarter-finals of a significant since successful the Wimbledon title, additionally alongside Serena, in 2016.
Requested if she had a message for her youthful sibling, Williams joked: “She’s so blissful for Leylah and I, she’s given us recommendation and we simply want her within the field, so my message is ‘Serena, it’s essential to present up!'”
Their quarter-final opponents could possibly be prime seeds Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend, whose third-round match had not begun when Williams and Fernandez left the courtroom having signed autographs for a lot of of their ready supporters.
For Alexandrova, it was the second defeat of the day on Louis Armstrong Stadium, having earlier been knocked out of the singles by Iga Swiatek on the identical courtroom.
