“Losing in this kind of tournament, it’s not something I don’t care about,” Djokovic said. “It really frustrates me. But I have to accept it, deal with it, and move on. … He just played better in the decisive moments. I had my chances to come back in the third set when I dropped my serve at 15-40. An easy forehand. I missed it, but that’s sport. You have to deal with these kind of situations.” Tsitsipas set up match point with a scorching cross-court winner before completing the victory in 2 hours, 17 minutes. “I knew he had some issues in some particular shots in his game, I would say. So I was waiting and I grabbed him like a bulldog and stuck there and executed, I executed my plan,” Tsitsipas said. “I knew that at some point he’s going to break, and I just patiently waited for this moment and it happened.” Top-ranked Rafael Nadal beat Swizterland’s Stan Wawrinka 7-5, 7-6 (4) in a night match delayed by rain late in the first set. Nadal, playing his first event since losing to Djokovic in the Wimbledon semifinals, will face sixth-seeded Marin Cilic of Croatia. “Very positive victory for me against a very tough opponent,” Nadal. “That’s what I needed, a match like this to be a little more confident. Just happy to be in the quarterfinals.”First ever win over Djokovic.
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First time into a Masters 1000 quarter-final.@StefTsitsipas scores massive win over Djokovic 6-3 6-7(5) 6-3.#RogersCup pic.twitter.com/V73JsabbVg
Cilic beat 11th-seeded Diego Schwartzman of Argentina 6-3, 6-2. Tsitsipas will face second-seeded Alexander Zverev of Germany, the defending champion coming off a tournament victory last week in Washington that included a semifinal win over Tsitsipas. The 21-year-old Zverev beat Russia’s Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 6-2 for seventh straight match win and tour-high 43rd of the year. “I feel physically pretty well. I feel like I’m playing well,” Zverev said. “I get into a rhythm of playing matches one after another, and right now, I’m in that rhythm.” Fourth-seeded Kevin Anderson of South Africa and fifth-seeded Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria set up another quarterfinal. Anderson topped qualifier Ilya Ivashka of Belarus 7-5, 6-3, and Dimitrov beat American Frances Tiafoe 7-6 (1), 3-6, 7-6 (4). In the other quarterfinal, Karen Khachanov of Russia will play Robin Haase of the Netherlands. Khachanov beat eighth-seeded John Isner of the United States 7-6 (5), 7-6 (1), and Haase topped Canadian Denis Shapovalov 7-5, 6-2. Photo: (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP) Follow Adam Zagoria on Twitter And like ZAGS on FacebookWhat a show ?@RafaelNadal digs deep to get past Wawrinka 7-5 7-6(4) to move into the quarter-finals.#RogersCup pic.twitter.com/yXRe1eTLKW
— Tennis TV (@TennisTV) August 10, 2018