The Spaniard’s service game has launched a revival in his career with Nadal having had a strong lead-in to his twelfth US Open, with fourth place at Rio in singles and gold in doubles, as well as a third round exit at Cincinnati. Speaking about this last point, Nadal admitted it ‘was a big mistake, but you’re 6-all in the tie-break.
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“I felt I played a little awful, to be honest”, said Kvitova.
It’s the first time since 1947 that three Frenchmen have advanced to the elite eight in a major. The trio that time was Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon and Rene Lacoste, all members of France’s famed “Four Musketeers” group of tennis stars in the 1920s and 1930s.
Lucas Pouille was not prepared to say his pulsating four-hour, fourth-round upset of 14-time Grand Slam victor Rafael Nadal at the US Open on Sunday was a career changing moment.
“I couldn’t dream better than this”, he said in an on-court interview after falling flat on his back in celebration after his forehand victor ended the marathon on his fourth match point.
Nadal, who has made an extraordinary comeback from a wrist injury that forced him to retire before his third-round match at Roland Garros and withdraw from Wimbledon, fought them all off to make it 6-6.
The France tennis player was close to losing, but recovered, as he converted his fourth match point to claim a 6-1 2-6 6-4 3-6 7-6 (8-6) win.
Pouille will now face his compatriot Monfils for a spot in the semi-finals, after the latter cruised through against Baghdatis with a 6-3 6-2 6-3 victory.
“At 6-3, I was thinking OK, you’re going to win this one”.
After a storming Olympic performance by Team GB in Rio, not least by tennis hero Andy Murray in becoming the only man ever to win two golds, it has become easy to get carried along on a patriotic wave at the US Open in NY, too.
The ninth seed from France fired 54 winners to oust 26th-seeded Sock, the lone remaining U.S. man in the field.
Sock’s bid to be the first American male to make the U.S. Open quarterfinals since 2011 was halted by Tsonga.
The match was everything a neutral observer could hope for as well.
This was Williams” first daytime match of the U.S. Open, so she debuted a new outfit – a white dress accessorized with neon pink compression wraps on her arms, which she called “my “Wonder Woman’ sleeves”.
He didn’t even warm up on the court, because it would have required coming to the grounds hours before his match. Monroe stayed on the ground for several minutes as he was examined by medical staff before walking back on court under his own power. “The opponent played a good point in the match point, and that’s it”. “At 6-4, was not the same”, Pouille said with a laugh.
The odds suggested that he would next play No4 seed and former champion Rafael Nadal for a place in only his second ever Grand Slam semi-final, but Nadal came into NY with the smallest of question marks over his form.
The 23-year-old Sock, seeded 26th, hadn’t faced a break point in surprising 2014 champion Marin Cilic in the third round. Monfils has not dropped a set in the tournament.
Described as someone who plays an attractive brand of tennis, the 22-year-old has all the skills to go along with the determination of a French bulldog, three of his four matches going the distance and the other needing four sets to be decided.
Later, Baghdatis told reporters he was messaging his wife.
Angelique Kerber won a battle of grand slam champions when the second seed powered her way into the quarter-finals of the US Open on Sunday with a 6-3 7-5 win over Petra Kvitova.
Wozniacki is a two-time runner-up at Flushing Meadows, but she is unseeded and ranked only 74th after a season filled with injuries and poor results. This was, by far, his best effort at a major in 2016.
Tsonga has never reached the U.S. Open semifinals.
On Sunday, Wozniacki made only seven unforced errors, 26 fewer than Keys.
2015 Australian Open – lost quarterfinals to Tomas Berdych.
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Pouille took a 3-1 lead in the tiebreak with a backhand shot that landed on the outside line, and he followed with an ace for a three-point edge.
