New York-Angelique Kerber reached the US Open quarter-finals on Sunday which left Serena Williams needing to reach the final to have a chance of retaining the world number one spot.
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However, the 14-time Grand Slam victor has confirmed that this loss will not deter him going ahead in the future and that he still has more tennis in him.
Monfils finished 24th seed Pouille with his 13th ace to lead off a huge day for the French, who placed three men in the quarter-finals of a grand slam for the first time since the 1947 French Open.
“During the practice it was 6-1 6-3 for him”.
“You tell me. I don’t know, really”, Djokovic replied.
Djokovic’s second-round opponent, Jiri Vesely, withdrew from the tournament with a sore left forearm. “I always say France is my home, but this one is my second”. “I have good feelings on the court, so we’ll see”.
“Of course I was a bit exhausted today”.
I fought until the end, Nadal said.
That he’s done it by playing only two complete matches because three opponents pulled out of the tournament with injuries is as odd as can be. Wozniacki lost in the tournament’s semifinals in 2010 and 2011.
They talked about the wrist injury that had forced Nadal out of the French Open after two rounds and to skip Wimbledon, and they tried to present his foray into the fourth round at Flushing Meadows as some sort of an achievement under the circumstances. During the match against Pouille he won 35% net points on 48 played, showing that the doubles gold medal won in the doubles in Rio did not happen by chance.
Roberta Vinci, of Italy, reacts during her match with Lesia Tsurenko, of Ukraine, during the fourth round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016, in NY. I fought right up to the last ball.
The 26-year-old Wozniacki refused to knock back her father’s opinion after reaching her first grand slam semi-final in two years. I had the right attitude but I needed something more. “If I face him, I will take the one match as enough”.
And that’s a scary thought for Monfils. But he has been fantastic during this tournament, winning all 15 sets he’s played.
“We have not taken any final decision, but as I understand her, it will not be a long career”, he was quoted as saying. “I played four matches, one in four sets, and then all three in five”.
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In the climactic tiebreaker, Nadal fought off Pouille’s triple match point at 6-3, but the Frenchman won the final two points, the last coming on a blistering forehand victor.
No one ever has won four consecutive five-setters at a major in the Open era, which dates to 1968.
Monfils said he “might watch a little bit” of Djokovic vs. Tsonga, pulling for what he called “a full French semifinal”.
The other women’s quarterfinal features two top-10 players: second-seeded Angelique Kerber, this year’s Australian Open champ, and No. 7 Roberta Vinci, last year’s U.S. Open runner-up. Hard to believe at the time, but she would not lose another game.
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This version corrects that Djokovic will play Monfils in the semifinals on Friday, not Thursday.
