• Friday, March 29, 2024

Wimbledon

Nadal survives thriller to down Del Potro in quarter-finals

By: Sarwar Alam

It was a case of down but definitely not out as a Rafael Nadal kept picking himself off a slippery and dusty Centre Court surface to storm into the Wimbledon semi-finals with a pulsating 7-5 6-7(7) 4-6 6-4 6-4 over Juan Martin del Potro. Just 90 minutes after defending champion Roger Federer was sensationally knocked out by South African Kevin Anderson on Wednesday, it seemed as if the grasscourt major would lose its top two seeds as Argentine Del Potro took a two-sets-to-one lead. It was not as if Nadal was playing badly as he had lost only nine points on serve…

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