It was Labour Day holiday in the United States on Monday but Andy Murray came to Arthur Ashe Stadium ready to work, demolishing Grigor Dimitrov 6-1 6-2 6-2 to reach the quarter-finals of the US Open.
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In the end, the wind blew away the rain, just like Murray blew away Dimitrov 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 in just 2 hours, 1 minute to book a US Open quarterfinal against Kei Nishikori.
On his way to victory against Dimitrov, Murray hit his fastest ever serve at 141mph, but he does not expect to repeat that anytime soon.
“I think that was lucky, I only did it once”.
Serena Williams waits for a serve from Johanna Larsson, of Sweden, during the third round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016, in NY. “The first time when I played Berdych after me and Dani stopped working together, it was awkward for sure, because he was one of my best friends and the media were trying to make it out like it was a grudge match”.
“I didn’t give him an opportunity, once I was ahead, to let him back in the match”, the No. 2-seeded Murray said. I got a lot of free points with my serve tonight. I did go up in (racket string) tension a little bit from the last match.
Still, the tough matches including a five-setter against Jeremy Chardy, and a four-set match against Joao Sousa should leave him in good stead and practice for this huge match. I played a really good match against him in Olympics a few weeks ago.
“I don’t really think about sending messages, purely because I know how much can change in a couple of days”.
Eventually, they played on open to elements and the Wimbledon and Olympic champion completed the most impressive of jobs to set up a last eight clash with Japan’s Kei Nishikori. My level is growing up every day.
The Swiss needed a tiebreak fourth set to advance.
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He was a break to the good at 2-1 in the fourth before Wawrinka, reinvigorated by a violent racquet smash courtside, recovered to win five of the next six games. “I’m just enjoying these moments out here, getting to break records that I didn’t even know existed or I didn’t even know were possible”. “But for both of us I think it’s going to be important to try to dictate and be aggressive on the court”.
But just as British tennis is on the up and up, so is Murray’s opponent in the fourth round of the US Open today.
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“If I’m doing a training session with them, I want to beat them”. But it’s one thing saying, “Oh, I did a training block with Andy, watched him train and he works really hard”. The first two quarter-finals take place on Tuesday when defending champion Novak Djokovic faces France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Lucas Pouille, the conqueror of Rafael Nadal, tackles French compatriot Gael Monfils.
