I’ve got a lot of learning to do.
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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. The 29-year-old notched two aces in the opening set and won 14 of 16 points on his first serve.
“With his serve, when you get a racket on the ball you have to quickly hustle and I played the big points well”.
“I thought I came out of the blocks really good”, Djokovic said in an on-court interview, after wrapping up his 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 win.
His left wrist had been bothering him since early August, so Djokovic arrived in NY without much recent match play, having lost in the first round of the Rio Olympics and pulled out of a hard-court tuneup tournament.
He finally managed to break Djokovic and the world No 1 immediately called for the trainer to perform some vigorous massage on the right arm which had troubled him in the first round against Jerzy Janowicz.
It looked set up for Edmund to take the fourth but Isner was not finished and, thanks to a couple of serves in excess of 130mph, he held on and took the set to a tie-break.
Maybe, just maybe, Novak Djokovic will work up a sweat in the U.S. Open’s fourth round.
The pair have met once before, in Australian Open qualifying in 2013, when Konta won a tight match 6-3 6-7 (8/10) 6-4. This is Tsonga’s third US Open quarterfinal, but he’s never made the semifinals in this tournament.
The 34-year-old Monroe was in the third round in doubles at a Grand Slam for the first time.
Djokovic took just 69 minutes to take a two-set lead, wrapping up the second with an outrageous dropshot and then a superb lob.
“It’s going to be a great match”.
“Considering I had some struggles before the tournament, I feel great at this moment physically; mentally as well I’m motivated”. He’s been very consistent at a high level.
The 10th-seeded Frenchman swept Marcos Baghdatis 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 on Sunday to improve to 18-2 in matches he’s played since a first-round loss at Wimbledon. The second seed beat the Czech 6-3 7-5 in a match that lasted for 88 minutes. He had some well-documented struggles leading into the final grand slam of the year, having an early exit at Wimbledon and the Olympics, and hasn’t looked himself in NY. Last year’s runner-up did not have to break a sweat against the World No. 99.
He will face a quarter-final with Stan Wawrinka after the Swiss player’s 6-4 6-1 6-7 (5) 6-3 victory over Illya Marchenko.
Four months after her defeat to Konta, the 26-year-old retired from tennis, fed up with injuries, and chose to take up a course in management.
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Sevastova, ranked 48 in the world, beat French Open champion Garbine Muguruza in the second round before overcoming Ukraine’s Kateryna Bondarenko in the third.
