“So I’m quite confident he’s going to get there soon”. “I was very aggressive all the match and at 6-6 (in the tiebreak) I didn’t want to miss”, Pouille said after the match.
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“Now I can see there is life after tennis as well and if you lose a match it’s not the end of the world”.
“I have the motivation to keep working”, he said. “I got to get better at my shot management, when to pull the trigger, when to rally”. That was something that I didn’t make today. “And Dimitrov himself has ideal first-hand knowledge of not just how to beat Murray on an American hard court but also how to rattle him”, says Flatman.
“My wrist is improving a lot”.
“I needed a little bit of massage”, he said of treatment similar to that which he received during his opening-round match against Jerzy Janowicz of Poland. I think he hasn’t played on the level that he can, to be honest. “That’s what my body is asking me now”.
Now the highest seed in Djokovic’s half of the bracket is No. 9 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who will face the Serbian champ on Tuesday in the quarterfinals.
Sock, seeded 26th, had just five aces.
“Also the challenge of playing world No 1, you know it’s going to be tough when you go out there”.
He saved break point after a double fault and aced on his way to 3-2 after 20 minutes, but there was little in it. “After a weird couple of rounds, I’m glad to be back”.
Time and again, Murray has looked a world class player in Grand Slams before reaching finals.
After the match Djokovic insisted “everything is fine” and that he did not feel any pain, but he may be given a stiffer examination by the powerful Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the quarter-finals.
By reaching the last eight Kerber has put herself in position to end Serena Williams’s long reign as world No 1.
Roberta Vinci, last year’s U.S. Open runner-up, is back in the quarterfinals. “And to win three best-of-five sets, I’ve never done that in my career”.
Marc Lopez teamed with Rafael Nadal to win the gold medal in men’s doubles at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Kerber won 6-3, 7-5 on Sunday in a matchup of left-handers to set up a meeting with last year’s runner-up, Roberta Vinci.
Edmund, 21, ranked 84 beat two seeds as he made it to the last-16 of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career.
Former world no 1 Wozniacki, the runner-up in 2009 and 2014, downed American eighth seed Madison Keys 6-3 6-4 on Sunday to make the last-eight in NY for a fifth time.
Novak Djokovic hits a shot during his match against Kyle Edmund.
Roberta Vinci, of Italy, reacts during her match with Lesia Tsurenko, of Ukraine, during the fourth round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016, in NY. The Swiss has been a semi-finalist in 2013 and 2015 and the fans would relish the contest between these two players for sure.
But he came through unscathed to ensure his quest for a 13th Grand Slam title and third this year remains on track.
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Novak Djokovic is coming off a straight sets win over Kyle Edmund that took 25 games to decide.
