The big names left in the US Open are advancing like a “caterpillar”. In fact, it seems that after the difficulties encountered in the initial part of the tournament, they have all taken the right pace and if a trip by some outsider might have appeared possible before, this possibility is drastically reduced with the approach of the decisive days for the award of the 137th edition of the US Open. Nadal moved to the quarter-finals and did it in a much more convincing way than the three previous statements: 6-2, 6-4, 6-1 the score with which the Spaniard "freed himself" in just 1 hour and 41 minutes of the Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov, number 64 of the ATP ranking. Nadal therefore returns to the quarters he had not reached since 2013, the year in which he went all the way and raised the trophy to the sky, as he had already done in 2010. Between the current n. 1 of the ATP rankings and the semifinal, where he could meet the other "sacred monster" of the tournament Roger Federer, in a challenge that will crown the king of the men's circuit, there is the surprising nineteen year old Russian Andrey Rublev, who from Monday will be at least n. 37 ATP and that continues to advance like a steamroller, destroying after the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, current n. 9 ATP, also the Belgian David Goffin.
Roger Federer, currently n. 3 ATP, which if we exclude the thrill that occurred at the end of the second set, when the Swiss tennis player requested medical intervention for the exacerbation of the annoying back pain that had forced him to retire a few days ago in Cincinnati, does not struggle as he had done in the previous rounds, and liquidates the Kohlschreiber practice in 3 sets (6-4, 6-2, 7-5). Federer then lands for the eleventh time in the quarterfinals of the US Open, which he won for
Ben 5 consecutive times between 2004 and 2008. He will be facing Juan Martin Del Potro in what he anticipates as a re-edition of the final in 2009, when South America won his only career Slam.
Just the passage of turn of Juan Martin Del Potro, current n. 30 ATP, has something "miraculous". After being down in the first two sets with the embarrassing score of 1-6, 2-6, the Argentine becomes the protagonist of an exciting comeback by winning the three further sets with a score of 6-1, 7-6, 6 -4 against the Austrian Dominic Thiem (n.7 ATP), and canceling two match-points in the fourth set when he was 5-4 down.
As of this writing, Spanish Pablo Carreno Busta and Argentina's Diego Schwartzman, number 37 ATP, are facing each other at Arthur Ashe Stadium. The Spaniard, number 17 ATP, at the time of writing is ahead of the Argentine by two sets to zero, both with a score of 6-4. The interesting match between the American Sam Querrey and the South African Kevin Anderson, protagonist of the recent elimination of “our” Paolo Lorenzi, will close the bill at 2.30 on the Italian night.
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