Wimbledon Lookahead: No. 1 Djokovic leads top 4 into QFs
Cilic had only won five sets against the Serb in all their previous matches.
After Richard Gasquet’s win over Stan Wawrinka, the Wimbledon semifinal matchups are set for Friday.
She had fallen in the last eight of the French Open for the last years. Last year, he lost in the first round. I would think I’ll be tested a lot.
The final set was all too predictable as Djokovic went 4-3 ahead when Cilic hit a forehand long at 40-15 down and the Serb closed it out on his second match point in similar fashion.
Ex- champion Maria Sharapova secured a berth in the semifinals at Wimbledon on Tuesday.
Hello, and welcome to Sports Mole’s live coverage of the Wimbledon quarter-final between Novak Djokovic and Marin Cilic. Play resumed Tuesday and Anderson’s big serve was back on target until the 11th game.
“Coming into this week, it was definitely my goal to progress further than I have at the Slams, ” Anderson said. “I was right about to serve the ball”. If I had to pick one, I would just be guessing.
“Every time the announcer says, ‘Make sure you hydrate yourself, ‘ I think he means with water, not with alcohol, ” Azarenka said, before then turning the incident into a positive. I really gave it all. The full schedule of men’s singles matches is below.
“It’s quite stressful to play against him”, Murray said of the 6-foot-11 Karlovic.
Vandeweghe won, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (4), and was her own worst critic afterward. Of the five other remaining men, only one Gasquet, in 2007 has even made it to the semifinals at the All England Club. Federer is 9-0 at that stage in southwest London. If they get to the final, it will obviously be a very exciting match. “At times I was helpless with my return – it was very hard to read his serve”. It didn’t matter much, because Federer broke right back and then served out the second set. Acceptance that he belongs has been hammered home by the Scot, who plays unseeded Vasek Pospisil. Murray, who won in 2013, beat Karlovic, 7-6 (7), 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
He trails Federer 5-2 in career clashes. So he has been playing at a high level and we meet again in the quarter-finals.
Kevin Anderson’s 2015 Wimbledon tournament is over.
No. 1 Court, beginning at 8 a.m.
Graf was also the last player to win all four major championships in a single season, in 1988. Both of Sharapova’s victories in the series came all the way back in 2004; one of those was in the Wimbledon final.
The covers are out on the courts at Wimbledon as rain has interrupted the opening men’s quarterfinal matches during the first set. “Gilles Simon is one of the best return players we have in the game”. He was 3-2 down at the time.
Double faults Throughout, the Churchillian gaze of Boris Becker peering down through narrow eyes from Djokovic’s player’s box never lightened from burdensome and concerned.
Novak Djokovic will be looking to avoid an unlucky 13th encounter against Marin Cilic.