Serena Williams storms into Semi Fianls, beats Carolina Pliskova of Czech Republic; Rafael Nadal wins 5 set thriller against Dominic Thiem to reach last four; Defending women’s champion Sloane Stephens crashes out in the Quarter Finals.<\/p>\n
Rafael Nadal won the US Open quarterfinal match against Dominic Thiem on Wednesday, after setting up a rematch of June’s French Open final, when he crushed the latter in straight sets to win his 17th major.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the match, Nadal had said he will need to raise his game to get past the red-hot Thiem, who reached his first US Open quarter-final when he defeated 2017 US Open runner-up Kevin Anderson in straight sets. Earlier, the world no.1 fought off resistance from Georgia’s Nikoloz Basilashvili with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-7(6), 6-4 win on Sunday to set up the quarterfinal against Thiem in New York.<\/p>\n
Former champion Juan Martin del Potro reached his second successive US Open semi-final with a hard-earned win over John Isner.<\/p>\n
World number 11 Isner took the opening set on a tie-break before the world number three levelled following a break in the fourth game of the second set.<\/p>\n
Serena Williams has advanced to the semi finals. Serena beat Carolina Pliskova 6-4-6-3 in the quarter finals.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Defending champion Sloane Stephens was eliminated from the U.S. Open. Anastasija Sevastova beat Sloane 6-2, 6-3 in Quarter finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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