New York: Peng Shuai refused to surrender her US Open dream in the locker room on Friday, preferring to go down in glory on a packed Arthur Ashe Stadium despite heat illness leaving her a tearful, crumbling wreck.


Shuai Peng is taken from the court in a wheelchair after an injury against Caroline Wozniacki during their US Open semi-final in New York on Friday. Pic/AFP 

Peng was trailing Caroline Wozniacki 7-6 (7/1) 4-3 in her semi-final when she left the court to seek treatment - at the time believed to be for cramping — and play was held up for 10 minutes.