Play was suspended because of darkness after three sets Saturday at Court No. 2 (only Centre Court has artificial lights).
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There are similarities with Wimbledon 2013, when Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal lost early and Murray went on to clinch the title.
Querrey knocked defending champion Novak Djokovic out of the tournament in the third round. News stories displayed here appear in our category for Sports and are licensed via a specific agreement between LongIsland.com and The Associated Press, the world’s oldest and largest news organization. “At one point, you’re used to it. It’s not like, ‘Oh, my God, all of a sudden there’s a match point, all of a sudden there’s a break point to save.’ It just was continuous”.
Murray has made a habit of fighting back from two sets down but this time it was Tsonga threatening to do the improbable.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russian Federation reached her first quarterfinal at Wimbledon – and first at any Grand Slam tournament since 2011 – by eliminating CoCo Vandeweghe 6-3, 6-3 on Monday.
Tsonga, who won a marathon match at the weekend against John Isner 19-17 in the final set, was a break up against number seven seed Gasquet when the match was ended. However, interestingly enough Querrey holds the winning record straight-up, including a Wimbledon victory from 2012.
Raonic will play either Federer or Marin Cilic in the semifinals on Friday. With Federer well overblown at Wimbledon, the Scot has to be relishing his chances of picking up a third Grand-Slam with real possibilities for a fourth at Flushing Meadows later this season.
Cilic, who beat Federer in the 2014 U.S. Open semifinals, won the first two sets 7-6 (4), 6-4. The players left in my section of the draw are still formidable.’ This is the mentality of a champion. The two have never faced off, but Berdych has played well this year, reaching the quarterfinals in both the Australian and French Opens.
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In the other men’s quarterfinal matches, sixth-seeded Milos Raonic will face 28th-seeded Sam Querrey, and 2010 finalist Tomas Berdych will play Lucas Pouille. For the protection of AP and its licensors, content may not be copied, altered or redistributed in any form. Please see our terms of service for more information.
