Federer holds five wins over the ninth-seeded Croat, but Cilic’s only victory came in their last encounter at the 2014 US Open, where he won their semi-final on the way to a maiden Grand Slam title triumph.
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Berdych is one win away from reaching his second Grand Slam final six years after losing to Rafael Nadal in the Wimbledon title match.
The third-seeded Swiss is, at 34, the oldest man in the semi-finals since 39-year-old Ken Rosewall finished runner-up to Jimmy Connors in 1974.
“I think at the beginning, he was a bit more defensive, playing a little bit more just waiting for what the opponent’s going to do” said the 30-year-old Czech.
“Everything kind of went very quickly”.
“You know, your job is to go out there and try to win the matches that are there in front of you”, Murray told reporters. A disgruntled Ivanisevic declined an interview request about half an hour after the classic concluded.
The only time the men’s quarters at a major in the Open era featured two 0-2 comebacks was the 1998 Australian Open.
Roger Federer is down two sets to love against Marin Cilic in their Wimbledon quarterfinal on Centre Court. “That was pretty much a shame”. “To play quarter-finals, it’s a good feeling, honestly, because I had some bad days at the start of the season”.
It won’t be easy for Murray though and early on Jo is likely to be unsafe with each of their last six meetings going past 10 games in set one, and the first two sets in their Davis Cup clash at Queen’s last summer was also tight early.
He has shrugged off questions about the impact of Novak Djokovic’s defeat, but this is the first time the Scot has found himself as the highest-seeded player left in a grand slam.
Among those in action are No. 3 Roger Federer (playing 9th ranked Marin Cilic) in the first match of the morning session.
Federer’s predicament deepened in the third game of the second set when Federer lost another backhand exchange.
Tsonga lost to Murray at Wimbledon in 2010 and 2012. Cilic admitted it was a mental battle and that Federer served exquisitely.
Smith on Tuesday named Murray in his team for next week’s Davis Cup quarter-final against Serbia in Belgrade.
“It’s encouraging for me to see that I am improving”.
“At the time, it had been such a long wait that everyone saw that as being my chance to win Wimbledon and I’ve done that now”.
“But, you know, I have to take the positives and the great tennis that I managed to play”. “Yes, I did surprise myself, in quite a big way actually”, SuperSport reported him as saying.
After the first set tie-break, Murray delivered a crushing second set performance – before Tsonga fought back to take the next two.
Williams owns a flawless 4-0 mark against Vesnina, and hasn’t lost a single set or more than four games in a single set to the 29-year-old.
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“That was something I started doing a lot more of when I had my back surgery (in 2013)”, he said. With Djokovic out, it was suddenly clear: Murray – Britain’s home hope – was the tournament favorite.
