VIDEO Novak Djokovic Avoids Wimbledon 2015 Upset To Kevin Anderson

The defending champion lost the opening two sets to his South African opponent on Monday before drawing level on Court One.

Wimbledon is the only Slam that schedules all 16 men’s and women’s fourth-round matches on the same day, and 15 were completed this time.

The match had began to turn during the third set late on Monday.

“I think it’s very important that we should remember it because it affected so many people, emotionally as well as through injury and death”.

The Serbian prevailed on Tuesday in a tense fifth set, and now will return to the court tomorrow to play his quarterfinal. RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – AFP PHOTO / ADRIAN DENNISADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/Getty Images Novak Djokovic in action against Kevin Anderson during day Seven of the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon. But the 14th seed, who reached the final at Queen’s, could not capitalise and Djokovic held.

Using the crowd to boost his performance has become an emerging feature of Murray’s game in recent months and Bjorkman says a home grand slam presents huge opportunity for any player.

But Tuesday’s encounter between Novak Djokovic and Kevin Anderson on Court No. 1 was something completely different.

“Even being down two sets, it didn’t faze me”, Pospisil said. Still, he prevailed. “Coming back to win gives me great satisfaction and confidence for my next challenge”, he said.

Relieved Novak Djokovic squeezed into the last eight at Wimbledon after a testing match against Kevin Anderson.

“I was pretty close to her. I’m definitely going to try to apologise to her if I did something wrong”.

“I’m sorry. There was nothing towards her”, the top seed said after reaching a 25th successive grand slam quarter-final with what he called one of the toughest matches of his Wimbledon career. Djokovic had to save two break points in the fourth game, holding serve for 2-2, with Anderson keeping up the pressure by rattling through the next game without dropping a point.

That’s because Sharapova, so passive in the second set, turned it on at the end, claiming the final three games.

“I’m going to have to be more aggressive, to play more risky tennis”, Cilic said. But at 5-5, Djokovic showed why he is the best player in the sport, winning the next two games and the match.

In Thursday’s semifinals, No. 1 Williams faces No. 4 Maria Sharapova, who beat unseeded American CoCo Vandeweghe 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-2.

It was the world number 56’s third five-set match in four rounds and his first career comeback from two sets to love down. The good news for Djokovic is he only needed about 45 minutes to wrap things up, and his match against Cilic is scheduled for second on Centre Court on Wednesday, leaving extra time to rest. Kyrgios appeared to stop trying briefly in the second set, half-heartedly swinging at one of Gasquet’s serves and simply walking away as another zipped past.