Williams won through also in three sets, with the 20-time grand slam champion fending off Belarusian Victoria Azarenka 3-6 6-2 6-3 in a high-quality match, and the Thursday semi-final against Sharapova will be keenly anticipated.
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Djokovic’s win completed the men’s quarterfinal lineup. Can play well on the surface. The noncompetitive match ended in straight sets, perhaps in part due to the fact that Pospisil had played six hours of tennis just a couple days earlier.
“Maybe he’s a little bit worn out”, Murray suggested.
Enough qualifiers in that sentence for you? The talented Frenchman has had a career blighted by inconsistency, but has often reserved his best for Wimbledon, going all the way to the semifinals in 2007.
“What I experienced, what I felt from her moving around in between my serving motion was not, I don’t think, sportsmanlike, in my opinion”, Vandeweghe said. He’s had great results here over the years.
The Big Four: Murray, Federer, Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, though the Spaniard’s inclusion is waning. “And that’s what I plan on doing”.
Following the exertions of his fourth-round, five-set victory over Kevin Anderson with its attendant tantrums and tribulations, this was as effortless a quarter-final victory as the reigning champion could have wished for as he prevailed 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.
He called it one of the most hard matches of his career. Djokovic and Anderson split the opening two sets on Monday before play was suspended by darkness.
Djokovic of course was apologetic following today’s match.
While tempers are known to flare on centre court, few on court outbursts compare to those of legendary American tennis star John McEnroe.
The tarps are off and players are back on court at Wimbledon.
But champions are made of strong stuff and they don’t concede easily.
The 6’8 South African pushed Novak Djokovic to the brink and back, but ultimately, the Serb proved why he is the defending champion, and more importantly, the world number one.
The 20th-seeded Spaniard, who reached the quarterfinals at the last two French Opens, advanced Tuesday by beating Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland 7-5, 6-3 on Court 1. Djokovic crashed 43 winners past his opponent but hit just 19 unforced errors.
The All England Club is where Sharapova won her first Grand Slam – and only Wimbledon title so far – in 2004 at the age of 17.
I didn’t know how my body was going to feel but I was hoping I would play well, which I have done. “He was very aggressive”. Anderson finished with 40 aces. But their chance at a third major title came to a close with a quarterfinal loss at Wimbledon.
Williams is two wins away from winning her fourth consecutive major tournament, which would match the non-calendar Slam she last achieved in 2002-03. Pretty exhausted right now, Pospisil said after his 10-set day.
“I managed to make three decisive breaks in each set”.
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“I was two sets down, to come back and win in five gives me great satisfaction and confidence for the next challenge”, he said after the normal order was restored.
