Tennis ace Novak Djokovic has apologised for upsetting a ball girl after appearing to shout at her during his fourth round match against Kevin Anderson.
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The Russian 28-year-old prevailed 6-3 6-7 (3/7) 6-2, before coming under fire from her opponent for unsporting behaviour, Vandeweghe claiming Sharapova was moving around in her eye-line as she shaped to serve. “I was not showing much emotion”, he said.
“It’s been up and down, up and down, but somehow I’m still alive”, Williams said.
“I think this would be the best opportunity for me to try to play, you know, full on”. “I just needed to keep him low”, said Murray. When Vandweghe broke to close to 3-2, she again motioned to the crowd to get behind her. But Sharapova shut down the comeback, winning the final three games. Gilles Simon is one of the best return players we have in the game.
Djokovic said: “I’m sorry”.
Djokovic has won the title at Wimbledon five times during his career.
That’s what CoCo Vandeweghe figured, after she’d muffed a serve in astronomical fashion.
Federer, 33, is bidding to become the oldest Wimbledon champion and win a record eighth title.
“I’m going to have to be more aggressive, to play more risky tennis”, Cilic told reporters Monday as he looked ahead to a possible meeting with Djokovic.
“Definitely no secrets between each other’s games”, Sharapova said. And for her past 26 Grand Slam matches she is, indeed, unbeaten.
The other women’s semifinal will be between 2012 runner-up Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland and No. 20 Garbine Muguruza of Spain.
Radwanska, the 2012 runner-up, eliminated No. 21 Madison Keys of the United States 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-3. It will be the first Grand Slam semifinal for the 21-year-old Muguruza, who reached the quarterfinals at the past two French Opens.
There were times in his five-set battle with the big-hitting South African Kevin Anderson when belief seemed to be all there was keeping him in it. Belief that his opponent, having played supremely well over two days – even having relinquished a two-set lead – would decisively slip up in the tense, attritional final set.
Djokovic lost the first two sets to Anderson but displayed steely grit to fight back and level the match amid the fading light on Court One.
Anderson picked up where he had started the previous day, a love game with three of the 40 aces here served throughout booming in at over 130mph.
If at least one Wimbledon fan doesn’t show up with a sign at Novak Djokovic’s next match that reads “Towel!”
Murray, the third seed, is through to his 18th consecutive Grand Slam quarter-final and his eighth at Wimbledon after beating Croatian Ivo Karlovic 7-6 (7), 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka can justify their status as Wimbledon’s big four by making the semi-finals on Thursday.
Anderson was beaten in straight sets by Andy Murray in the Queen’s Club final last month and said it was “more comfortable” to tackle Djokovic on grass than the Scot, although he finds it hard to look beyond the pair as potential champions.
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Williams, who was previously taken to three sets by Heather Watson in the third round, continues to elevate her performance when she has to.
