Calros Alcaraz storms into quaterfinals after victory over Cilic in marathon match
Playing for a spot in the quarterfinals, the players kept coming back at each other to provide the spectators with an absolute spectacle of a match.
Playing for a spot in the quarterfinals, the players kept coming back at each other to provide the spectators with an absolute spectacle of a match.
Cilic, who reached his first Roland Garros semi-final on Wednesday, joined an elite group that includes Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Andy Murray in digging deep to win 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(10-2) and advance to the last-four stage of the clay-court Grand Slam.
Nagal was no match for World no 37 Cilic and won just one game in his entire match. Cilic ended up winning 6-0, 6-1 and the match lasted just under an hour.
Croatia's Mate Pavic and Franko Skugor will now face Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna in the doubles before Cilic takes on Gunneswaran and Gojo clashes with Ramkumar.
Frances Tiafoe restored some pride for the United States by beating Germany's Maximilian Marterer 7-5, 6-4.
This is the 20th Grand Slam title of Federer's career.
He will face either defending champion Roger Federer or unseeded South Korean Chung Hyeon.
This was Cilic's 100th Grand Slam career win, securing him a place in the quarterfinals of a major for the 11th time.
He does not have either a powerful serve or flashy ground strokes to intimidate his rivals, yet Gilles Simon scripted…
"I played very well so really happy to be playing at this level right now," Federer said.
