In the Open championship of the USA on tennis in the men’s singles formed the first pair of the 1/2 final.
For the first time in the semifinals of the US Open will face Gael Monfils, and 30-year-old Frenchman each of the five matches finished in three sets. In quarterfinal Monfils easily beat his compatriot Luke Puja, which didn’t have the energy after a series pyatisetovy matches.
Monfis it took less than two hours to update a personal record in the American major. The Frenchman made five breaks and never allowed a break point on his serve.
Luke – (France, 24) – Gael Monfis (France, 10) – 4:6, 3:6, 3:6
Even more fleeting was the second quarterfinal in the top of the tournament – with the score 0:2 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was summoned to the court of a physiotherapist and after a few minutes due to problems with his knee and refused to continue the fight.
Novak Djokovic holds its weirdest tournament series Grand slam, the Serb on the way to the semi-final played only two complete games. In the second round Jiri Vesely came out for the match with the first racket of the world, then in the first set, she withdrew from the match Mikhail Youzhny, and now Tsonga has not allowed the Serb to issue a full victory.
Novak Djokovic (Serbia, 1) — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France, 1) — 6:3, 6:2, failure Tsonga
