NEW YORK (Reuters) – Young guns Carlos Alcaraz and Leylah Fernandez continued to impress at the U.S. Open on Sunday, the teenagers storming into the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time.Alcaraz, 18, beat Germany's Peter Gojowczyk 5-7 6-1 5-7 6-2 6-0 to become the youngest men's player in the professional era to reach the U.S. Open quarter-finals.'I felt the energy of the crowd pushing me up … without the crowd, it couldn't be possible to be here,' he said.Fernandez, who upset defending champion Naomi Osaka in the third round, took down 2016 winner Angelique Kerber 4-6 7-6(5) 6-2.

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