At 6-foot-11, he set a tournament record with 61 aces in a five-set win in the first round.
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The Scotsman dropped just five games in a two-hour encounter that saw him serve at 141 miles per hour.
“I once hit a 145mph serve in San Jose but they recalibrated the machine the next day so it didn’t count”.
Tsonga said when the pain came Tuesday, “I knew it was over for me straightaway”.
“I don’t think the reason I lost the match was because of my return game”.
Japanese star Nishikori clinched a dramatic 1-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 comeback triumph in a shade under four hours against the Wimbledon and Olympics victor and 2012 US Open champion. “I’m just happy that it’s now and that it came”, said the 24-year-old Pliskova, who is participating in the 18th Grand Slam tournament of her career.
“I fought as hard as I could with what I had today”.
“I didn’t give him an opportunity once I was ahead to let him back in the match”.
Murray, the No. 2 seed and 2012 champion at Flushing Meadows, disagreed with chair umpire Marija Cicak’s decision to immediately halt things when play was interrupted by a sound similar to that of a gong being struck.
The 142nd-ranked del Potro was leading No 8 seed Dominic Thiem 6-3, 3-2 when the Austrian retired with a right knee injury.
A rematch with the man he defeated in the final, a resurgent Juan Martin del Potro, could provide a fitting climax to the Argentina tie.
Del Potro, the 2009 U.S. Open victor, has spent years battling his own wrist injury, but ironically it was his opponent, Dominic Thiem, who retired hurt to allow him progress to the quarter-finals in NY.
Murray missed out on a chance to put his name alongside Rod Laver, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic as the only men to have reached each grand slam final in a calender year.
Earlier this year, he was on the brink of retirement after undergoing three wrist surgeries. You want a continuous match, for sure. “But, well, I’m not going to complain”.
“I’m feeling very good”.
Eighteen-year-old Ana Konjuh stunned fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska 6-4, 6-4 to book her spot in the quarter-finals. In the other, two-time runner-up Caroline Wozniacki was a 6-0, 6-2 victor against Anastasija Sevastova, who injured her right ankle in the second game and was never able to get going.
If the world number two was simmering, he was about to boil over, as he opened up a break point at 1-1, 30-40 in the fourth.
The Ukrainian, who arrived in NY on a seven-match losing streak, battled back from 2-4 and 3-5 down in the third set to force a tiebreaker.
But the world No.2 raced to victory, winning in straight sets – 6-1, 6-2, 6-2. But once the second seed settled in the match, the Bulgarian struggled massively, his subpar form of much of 2016 coming back to haunt him in an error-strewn performance – he would end the match with a tally of 43 unforced errors.
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In Tuesday’s other men’s quarter-final, Lucas Pouille, who knocked out 14-time major victor Rafael Nadal in five sets on Sunday, faces French compatriot Gael Monfils.
