But he skipped the second round when Jiri Vesely handed him a walkover with an arm injury before Mikhail Youzhny lasted just six games and 32 minutes before calling it quits with a hamstring injury in Friday’s third round.
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This time around, he only needed about 2 hours to outclass his British rival, as he progressed into the quarterfinals of the tournament for the 10th consecutive year, with a score-line of 6-2, 6-1, 6-4.
Djokovic’s victory put him into the last eight against ninth-seeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, a 6-3 6-3 6-7 6-2 victor against American 26th seed Jack Sock.
“I learned a lot from tonight”, Edmund said.
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.
He beat Kyle Edmund of Great Britain 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 early on Monday.
The Serb has a 15-6 winning record against ninth seed Tsonga, a run stretching back to their first meeting in the 2008 Australian Open final. “I really wanted to start the match well today because I didn’t have much time on the court overall before the fourth round”.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning at around 02:00 United Kingdom time tournament favourite Novak Djokovic faces his first real threat of the fortnight when he takes on Jo-Wilfried Tsonga for the 22nd time. “It was tough but I came off a lot happier than I was during the match because I started to impose myself in the third set”.
We’ve made huge improvements to our game-by-game betting experience, making it far easier for you to bet on individual games during a match when using your mobile. Tsonga continues to play his best tennis in grand slam play and has lost just one set in this tournament.
Murray has been at the receiving end at numerous Grand Slam finals in the last five years against his old friend, but the Briton certainly has an advantage this year over Novak at Flushing Meadows as the latter’s form has been marred with fitness issues of late.
“I came out of the blocks with high intensity”. I’ve had some great ones against him in the past. “It’s something I’ll need to figure out at the end of the year”, Vinci said in Italian, with a laugh.
“It feels great to play a match”, Djokovic said.
“I have the motivation to keep working”, he said.
Juan Martin del Potro’s summer renaissance continued as the unseeded Argentinian advanced into quarter-finals when an injury forced Austrian eighth seed Dominic Thiem to retire.
Former world No 1 Wozniacki, the runner-up here in 2009 and 2014, downed American eighth seed Madison Keys 6-3, 6-4 to make the last-eight in NY for a fifth time.
Djokovic isn’t used to playing long first-round matches at Grand Slams and he tried his best to convince everyone that the injury was healing at a rapid pace.
“I’m feeling very good, to be honest”.
German second seed Angelique Kerber defeated Petra Kvitova 6-3, 7-5 to reach the US Open quarter-finals on Sunday.
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Konta, the 13th seed, collapsed on court during her second-round victory over Tsvetana Pironkova but looked to have made a full recovery in an impressive third-round win over Belinda Bencic.
