But with his wife Kim Sears urging Murray, “right now, right now” from the stands, Murray broke Nishikori to go up 4-3 after Nishikori’s return went wide and then went on to capture the set and regain the lead in the match. The game went on for nearly four-hours and a very entertaining game for all the audience but not to Andy Murray.
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“I have great memories of this place and this is a great chance for me in the semi-finals”.
The game finally looked up when Nishikori broke again, feeding off another Murray double fault but, leading 4-3, the Japanese allowed his nerves to take hold. “That was the difference”. Chair umpire Marija Cicak ordered the point to be replayed, which irked Murray, who subsequently discussed the matter with tournament referee Wayne McKewen.
“Exactly the same thing”, Murray exclaimed. “And I told you”.
Murray made it 2-2, only for Nishikori to lead 4-2.
A women’s fourth round match on Monday suffered similar problems as Ana Konjuh was serving for the match against Agnieszka Radwanska.
The USTA says the malfunctioning unit will be replaced between Wednesday’s day and night sessions.
And now he has a chance to go back to the finals, where he lost to Djokovic in 2014. The sixth seed took that momentum into the eleventh game as he applied pressure on Murray’s serve as he had done throughout the match with the exception of the first set. Adding to the maddening scene was the sudden horn-like blast from a stadium speaker defect just as Murray struck an apparent victor at break point in the third game of the fourth set. Murray whacked his racket on the top of the net in frustration after the point, and then took his seat on the changeover with a few choice words to himself. Soon enough, his career-best run of reaching seven straight tournament finals was done. I fought as hard as I could with what I had today. The Swiss has now won three of their seven meetings, but lost the most recent one, in the second round at this year’s Wimbledon Championships. He would lose 7-5 in the fifth and deciding set.
“I had many up and downs, in the beginning I didn’t start well”.
Andy Murray who is the number one seed, lost to make his mark once again in U.S. Open. Twice, in fact. She dropped a set for the first time in the tournament, too, pushed to the brink by Simona Halep in the quarterfinals.
In a match filled with fantastic shotmaking and enthralling exchanges, neither player budged until Williams righted herself in the third set to emerge with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 victory over Halep to get back to the semifinals at Flushing Meadows.
Her opponent Thursday will be 10th-seeded Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic, who beat the 34-year-old American’s older sister, Venus, in the fourth round.
In the other semi-final, second seed Angelique Kerber plays two-time US Open runner-up Caroline Wozniacki.
“I didn’t play a good game after I got out of the change of ends and then he held pretty comfortably the next game”. She kept going for shots, and she did what she needed to do.
Murray served out that set at love and seemed to be in good shape, up two sets to one. “I didn’t start well”.
“But after the rain delay I think I was more focused and start playing better tennis, so I was getting more confidence during the match”.
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The Argentine’s bruising recent schedule had seen him claim an Olympic silver medal last month and he used that experience to claim the only break for a 4-3 lead in the second set.
