adminNEW YORK. – Top seed Novak Djokovic reached his 22nd consecutive Grand Slam quarter-final with a straight-sets win over Philipp Kohlschreiber at the US Open tennis tournament on Monday.The world number one secured a 6-1, 7-5, 6-4 victory over the German and will next play Andy Murray after the Briton beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-5, 7-5, 6-4.
Third seed Stan Wawrinka beat Spain’s Tommy Robredo 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (9-7), 6-2.
In the women’s singles, defending champion Serena Williams set up a last-eight meeting with Flavia Pennetta.
Williams (32) beat Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi 6-3, 6-3 in 65 minutes.
The victory keeps Williams on course to become the only second woman to win three consecutive US Open titles since the Open Era began in 1968.
It is the first time Williams, a five-time champion in New York, has reached the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam this year.
Pennetta, the 11th seed, beat Australian Casey Dellacqua 7-5, 6-2 to reach the last eight in New York for the fifth time in seven years.
Were Williams to win the title for a third straight year, she would emulate compatriot Chris Evert, who won the US Open four times in succession from 1975 to 1978.
Japan’s Kei Nishikori beat fifth seed Milos Raonic in a five-set men’s singles encounter that equalled the record as the longest match ever at the US Open.
It took the 10th seed four hours and 19 minutes to record a 4-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (6-8), 7-5, 6-4 victory over the Canadian, matching the time of a 1993 match between Swedes Mats Wilander and Mikael Pernfors and the third-round tie between Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber and John Isner of the United States in 2012.
Nishikori will face third seed Wawrinka of Switzerland in the quarter-finals. – BBC Sport.
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