DAY 9: US Open Results 2012

Errani and Vinci comes after Novak Djokovic

THE ORDER OF PLAY OF THE 9TH DAY, DISRUPTED BY THE RAIN AS THE PREVIOUS ONE: DJOKOVIC AWAITS THE CONCLUSION OF THE MATCH BETWEEN SHARAPOVA AND BARTOLI, WHILE FEDERER SHOULD CLOSE WEATHER PERMITTING PROGRAM ...

Terminus for Kohlschreiber

Philipp Kohlschreiber had in his second round match against Janko Tipsarevic while always the chance for "big points" had, in the end, but still Augsburg 3:6, beaten 6:7 (5:7) and 2:6. Kohlschreiber was the last German professional in each of the U.S. Open. Kohlschreiber went with a 2-5 down, he had caught the day before the rain interruption in the match. Tipsarevic settled this lead and did not take the first set safely in the bag. Then there developed a close fight. Kohlschreiber had to give up but his serve in the seventh game, but a little later countered with the re-break. With a 5-4 lead in the tiebreak of the Augsburg sniffed already set on ball, but Tipsarevic kept his cool and won the second round with three points in the series. 

David Ferrer seeks the quarter-finals

After defeating Lleyton Hewitt in four sets (7-6 (11-9), 4-6, 6-3, 6-0) faces David Ferrer tonight Frenchman Richard Gasquet for a place in the quarter- final. Gasquet and Ferrer will meet around 18:00 in Louis Armstrong and the track will kick off a day in which he also will compete, among others, tennis players like Novak Djokovic and Juan Martin del Potro.

Victoria AZARENKA b. Samantha STOSUR 6-1, 4-6, 7-6

Vika Azarenka confirms the favorable tradition against Sam Stosur and reach the semi-finals by eliminating the defending champion of last year. A game definitely intense, beautiful (sometimes) and characterized with a thousand blows down: especially in the third and decisive in September Ready away and the first three games, before unleashing a storm that interrupted the game for over an hour, the Belarusian show at all because in the previous six Stosur has failed to bring home even a set, two breaks and a 3-0 that stunned the Australian contracted. It even helps him break Stosur: to return to the field, in fact, takes Azarenka the path started in the previous game and ended with a net 6-1. Stosur, however, at the start of the second is found and when he can control the exchange with straight, hurts after a series of break and controbreak immediate, the Australian is the stretch in the seventh game and no longer tremble at the service debunks a curse lasted 13 set; 6-4 and third set everything to play for.

THIRD September fluctuating - The deciding game is played, however, the output voltage and the actual shots and series of 4 games played controbreak break and it is a clear demonstration: Azarenka the shakes more than usual the service also putting two double faults for game while Stosur, whenever he can not control the exchange with the forehand, ends up losing field (and often the point). The last real chance before the arrival natural tie-break, but it is precisely because of that the defending champion 5-5 and Azarenka service is canceled sees a break point in the first ace of the match in Belarus. The tie-break is pure tension: the seeded first in the tournament runs immediately 4-0 (missing the 5-0 as a matter of centimenti), then shakes and allows to return to Stosur 5-5, there the 'Azarenka finds a new minibreak and focusing sharply on the reverse of the Australian is the decisive mistake that delivers the seventh victory in as many previous access in the semifinals.

Sara ERRANI b. Angelique Kerber 7-6 (5), 6-3

Another company of Sara Errani and again against Angelique Kerber, because with Germany three months ago it all started at Roland Garros: the 6-3, 7-6 in the Philippe Chatrier for the first victory against a top-ten in seven -6, 6-3 this evening on Louis Armstrong for the first time in the quarter-final at Flushing Meadows.

ERRANI FANTASISTA VS KERBER FATICATRICE - do not change the dynamics, because Sara with its innumerable variations has become the worst nightmare for the most athletic player in the WTA circuit: another intense and balanced match with Kerber, number 6 seed, to avoid prolonged exchanges to evade the defensive network of Errani (Sara will be 20 points out of 23 runs!), two breaks for the five balls of profits in the first set tie-break and a perfect Errani of which ends with the straight win in the third (and last) set-point. Sara goes ahead 3-0 in the second set by bending the service of Kerber on the sixth break point of the game, but as in the first set, with the Italian twice ahead in the score, the Kerber up the pace, find the depth even with reverse and recover the gap. End here, because Sara begins with the usual beautiful collection of damped and volley ball and make concrete the twelfth meeting to break the serving for the match . Errani also lucky, because the third "blue ribbon" closes the game after the first to deliver the tie-break and the second to save a dangerous break-point in the middle of the second game. After Kerber in the quarterfinals in Paris we had only bowed to Sharapova in the final, raise your hand, except for the tireless Sara, would not sign for the same result on the concrete of New York ...

Roberta VINCI b. Agnieszka RADWANSKA 6-1, 6-4

The dream becomes reality: Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci, companions of double holders of Roland Garros, will contest the semi-finals of the U.S. Open after eliminating Kerber and Agnieszka Radwanska, respectively the number 2:06 world. For Errani, a finalist in Paris also in the singular, is the best result at Flushing Meadows, for the first time in the quarter-Win a Grand Slam. Missing an Italian in the semifinals in New York since 1930 was an American import, Maud Rosenbaum, to represent us.

DOES NOT STOP THE WIN MORE '- The Louis Armstrong fades to blue and the net 6-1 in the first set does not ring true: we admit that Radwanska, a finalist at Wimbledon, is weakened from the start of the tournament for a nagging problem right shoulder, and this allows four double faults and many grimaces of pain on the over-head . However, the Vinci played tennis a beautiful and high technical coefficient for the entire second and most fought sets where the fourth game, one of the first break, is a masterpiece backbeat attack with volleys in extension, and loop tape favorable of straight, but you're at the relaxing tarantna for debreak point. The second wonder before the curtain (5-4 Win), but to tell the truth this time is (almost) all the Radwanska with three unforced errors before passing to close the match. And after the Dallas Vinci does not stop ...

American Serena Williams walked to the Czech Andrea Hlavackova, which won in 57 minutes 6-0, 6-0, and reached the quarterfinals, where he spent the Serbian Ana Ivanovic (12) and Italy's Sara Erani (10), which confirmed his great form. Radwanska suffered an unexpected defeat against Vinci, who deserved to win, because the cement Louis Armstrong Stadium track was always better and beat in every facet of the game. The Polish player, who was fighting to reach number one in the WTA world rankings, had never come into play option because Vinci always imposed his pace and left without resources to finish the first round with a crushing 6-1. The injury that creeps on the right shoulder has affected his game. Radwanska and was wrong in the Olympics and now intended to give fight to the finish in the U.S. Open, where he still overcome the barrier of the second round, classification also reached in 2007 and 2008. Vinci's rival in the quarter-finals will be your friend and partner stunt routine, Sara Errani, also half surprised with his 7-6 (7) 6-3 to Germany's Angelique Kerber, sixth-seeded. Errani had never passed the third round in a Grand Slam in January and reached the quarterfinals at the Australia Open. Then made history with its end in Paris and then fell in the third round at Wimbledon. If parties Errani and Vinci had some fighting and emotion, he played the younger of the Williams sisters just simply was a ride that was to award pass the quarterfinals after placing 31 winners and only seven unforced errors. The victim of Serena Williams, fourth seed, was Hlavackova, who won 29 points in the entire match and only made nine points when the London 2012 Olympic champion had the serve. Williams will rival quartered Ana Ivanovic, seeded twelfth, who won 6-0, 6-4 to Bulgaria's Tsvetana Pironkova in one hour and 11 minutes.