Matteo Berrettini outlasts Monfils to reach U.S. Open semifinals - Sportsnet.ca

The 23-year-old Italian finally closed it out on his fifth match point — long after he double-faulted away his first chance — after 3 hours, 57 minutes.

The short break seemed to benefit Monfils, who is 10 years older and had been leaning on his racket or wiping sweat off his legs between points. He won the fourth set but didn’t have enough left at the finish of a match that took 68 minutes to play the final set. A day after Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka departed the U.S. Open on the same day, Bencic did her part to lift some of spirits in Switzerland.

Trailing 3-2 in the set, that sent her into the lead and Vekic never recovered, with Bencic winning the final four games to surpass her 2014 run to the U.S. Open quarterfinals for her best performance in a major tournament. One men’s semifinal is already set, with No. 5 Daniil Medvedev facing Grigor Dimitrov, who eliminated five-time U.S. Open champion Federer on Tuesday. Wawrinka had beaten top-ranked Novak Djokovic, the defending champion, in the fourth round before losing to Medvedev.

It was Bencic who cracked first, missing an easy putaway on game point while serving at 4-all in the first set. She momentarily seemed to lose focus, as Vekic then won the next three points to break for a 5-4 lead.

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