“I hit a drop-shot and it came back over”.
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“I’m happy with my tournament”, he said. I really like what I do.
But the flamboyant serve-and-volleyer said the time for revelling in his exploits would come at the end of the year when he heads to Jamaica. I just always go on to the next one, the next point. Besides her two titles, she has also reached the semifinals and twice made the quarterfinals.
Brown used to save money by travelling to tournaments in a camper van and stringing rivals’ rackets, and while those days now appear long gone, he suggested his £77,000 consolation for losing in the Wimbledon third round will not go far.
Playing away from the harsher media gaze trained on Centre Court – where Roger Federer was simultaneously moving through the same side of the draw – looked to give Nadal a sense of freedom and he won without much anxiety on court or on the scoreboard. “It was… hard for Petra to attack and get some returns on it”. Not lately. He missed time last season with a right wrist injury, then needed appendix surgery, and has spoken about confidence issues.
One effort topped out at 147mph (225kph) just shy of the Wimbledon record held by American Taylor Dent, but for all his belligerence, Groth could not match the all round excellence of seven-time champion Federer.
“Dustin was very entertaining yesterday”, said Nick Kyrgios, the Australian who beat Nadal in the fourth round here a year ago.
(CNN)There was to be no glorious repeat of his Centre Court heroics in putting out Rafael Nadal as Germany’s Dustin Brown exited Wimbledon in four sets Saturday to Viktor Troicki of Serbia.
Nadal became the biggest casualty of this year’s championships when he crashed to a 7-5 3-6 6-4 6-4 defeat in a thrilling match to extend his slump in form.
In 2012, he lost to No. 100 Lukas Rosol in the second round.
The 36-year-old Karlovic is the oldest man to make it that far at Wimbledon since fellow Croatian Niki Pilic in 1976.
Troicki has never been past the fourth round at Wimbledon before but the 29-year-old is a risky opponent on grass and was simply too consistent, despite Brown enthralling the Court Three crowd with a number of outrageous shots.
John Isner double-faulted on two of the last three points Saturday and lost to reigning US Open champion Marin Cilic 7-6 (4), 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-7 (4), 12-10 in a third-round Wimbledon match that resumed after being suspended a night earlier because of darkness at 10-all in the fifth set.
Troicki, who equalled his best grand slam performance by reaching the round of 16, will now face either Britain’s James Ward or Canada’s Vasek Pospisil.
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Federer will next face Spanish 20th seed Roberto Bautista Agut for a place in the quarter-finals.
