The Spaniard was in sublime form coming into the second week at Flushing Meadows.
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1, who opted out of the Cincinnati Masters recently due to an injury in the left hand, hasn’t been at his best at the US Open this year.
So perhaps that’s the secret to Wozniacki’s run to the quarterfinals when she hadn’t won four matches in a row since March 2015.
The 29-year-old remains on course for his 13 Grand Slam title and his third this year. It was a rematch of the French Open final, where the Lopezes also beat the Bryans in three sets.
Monroe and Young had split the first two sets with Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez and were trailing 4-2 in the third when the incident happened.
“It’s given me a lot more belief in my game”, Edmund said. Tsonga hopes to make his seventh career grand slam semifinal. But she returned to the sport at the start of last season, and her ranking has steadily climbed to 48th.
Vinci is now ranked No. 8. “So I’m really glad to be back”, Djokovic said in his on-court interview. I need something more that was not there today. “Let’s see what I’m feeling and if I have a desire to continue. He has a big serve and a big game so I look forward to it”.
But questions about the top seed’s fitness remain unanswered after he again took treatment on a sore right elbow at the start of the third set.
Pouille overcame the two-time victor 6-1 2-6 6-4 3-6 7-6 (8-6) to secure a last eight meeting with compatriot Gaël Monfils.
I said yesterday that we might see a much sharper Andy Murray against Grigor Dimitrov than we did against Paulo Lorenzi, but I don’t think many expected a 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 demolition job by the Scot.
Pouille, meanwhile, ran out of steam. After the Serb clinched an opening round win against Jerzy Janowicz, the next full match he played was against his last-16 opponent Kyle Edmund on Monday.
Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, reacts after missing a shot against Kyle Edmund, of Britain, during the fourth round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016, in NY.
Kerber, who can depose Serena Williams as world number one by the end of the tournament, has yet to drop a set at the tournament.
After ending up being the runners-up at Rio Olympics 2016, Del Potro, at 142 in the world, has also become the lowest-ranked man in 25 years to reach the last eight.
On Tuesday, she was two points away from taking the first set when she served for it at 5-4, but she got broken there.
Vinci defeated Ukranian Lesia Tsurenko on Sunday, 7-6 (5), 6-2. That resulted in a double-fault that ceded the set.
“But I made Kyle work for each point”.
After failing to covert one match point in the third-set tiebreaker, the ninth-seeded Tsonga dominated the fourth for the 6-3, 6-3, 6-7 (7), 6-2 victory Sunday.
She said she has a recurring wrist injury and was advised by her doctor to take time off.
It’s not often you get to the quarters of a major having played seven-and-a-bit sets, but that’s where we’re at with Djokovic this US Open, and perhaps carrying a bit of an injury too Tsonga might fancy his chances for a change. At the ensuing changeover, Djokovic was visited by the trainer, who pressed a thumb just above the back of the player’s right elbow, while manipulating that joint in various ways.
Advancing to the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the third time was 10th-seeded Gael Monfils of France. The last time they met, he took him to two tie-breaks before losing in the quarter-finals at Indian Wells this year.
The two-time U.S. Open victor had played just four full sets, all coming in his first-round win. Forecasts call for partly cloudy skies, blustery winds and a chance of afternoon showers.
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