Novak Djokovic: Right Now I’m Feeling Very Close My Peak Form

Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares moved into the semi-finals of the men’s doubles with a 7-6, 2-6, 6-3 win over Andre Sa and Chris Guccione and now face Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert.

The remaining two quarterfinals scheduled to be played out later in the day shall witness top seed Serena Williams take on a formidable opponent in Simona Halep while Karolína Pliskova shall battle it out against giant killer Ana Konjuh.

Speaking on court after his win, Djokovic who is through to his 10th consecutive semi-final in NY said, “I have to say it again, I really wish Jo a quick recovery”.

World No1 Novak Djokovic says he feels close to peak fitness after going through to the semi-finals of the US Open on Tuesday night.

Djokovic has been nursing a couple of injuries himself, and began the tournament having problems with his left wrist and right elbow.

Novak Djokovic has reached his 10th consecutive US Open semi-final.

Although Tsonga contributed to his own downfall with 19 unforced errors in the first set, Djokovic had good reason to be happy with his own game.

Djokovic said: “I’m in the semi-finals, so that’s what matters for me the most; to be able to play as well as I did in fourth round and today in the quarterfinals for at least a couple of sets”.

In his first match at the tournament he beat Jerzy Janowicz in four sets. But I managed to overcome them and those extra three or four days really served me well. But the entertaining Monfils has been playing the best tennis of his career lately, winning all 15 sets he’s played during this tournament. I just hope that I’ll continue to follow the same path.

“I’ve never experienced anything like this, ” Djokovic said.

The other women’s quarterfinal features two top-10 players: second-seeded Angelique Kerber, this year’s Australian Open champ, and No. 7 Roberta Vinci, last year’s U.S. Open runner-up.

For all of his deep runs at Flushing Meadows, Djokovic has won only two of his 12 grand slam titles at the hard-court tournament, in 2011 and 2015.

Many fans at the evening session left feeling short-changed after both matches finished in quickfire victories because of injuries. The crowd of 23,000 didn’t see much of a show as the first match – the women’s quarterfinal between Caroline Wozniacki and Anastasija Sevastova was an noncompetitive 6-0, 6-2 rout.

Monfils said he “might watch a little bit” of Djokovic vs. Tsonga, pulling for what he called “a full French semifinal”.

“I think one of the most important things for a player is this freshness of the mind, of the body, and just having that right supply of substance in your body and the enduring strength that you need, the speed, the alertness”, he said.

Sevastova, the first Latvian to reach a Grand Slam quarterfinal, saw her US Open hopes come to a painful end when she rolled her ankle chasing down a ball on Wozniacki’s opening serve.

Trailing 6-5, and serving at love-40, Vinci missed her first serve, then was called for a foot fault on a second serve.