Roger Federer ended the surprising trajectory of Gilles Muller the Luxembourg tennis player in the U.S. Open and was classified for the semifinals of the tournament after defeating 7-6 (5), 6-4 and 7-6 (5), after 2: 25 hours. Thus, the Basle player returns to dispute a semi-final, something that did not happened since Wimbledon since the tournament after London was eliminated in her first match at the Toronto Masters in the second and Cincinnati Masters quarters finals of the Olympic Games.
Muller had become the unexpected guest in the quarterfinals of the tournament, whose final table accessed from upstream.
But this factor has not been the only one that has attracted the admiration of the public, as the Luxembourg agreed to the quarterfinals after overcoming two games before the German Tommy Haas and Nicolas Almagro in the Spanish he had to go two sets against, and subsequently to eliminate Nikolay Davydenko, fifth-seeded.
The Spanish Rafael Nadal, the world number one, arrived for the first time in his career to the semifinals of this tournament, having beat the American Mardy Fish in a match that ended well into the early hours of Thursday in New York.
Remember. The match of Nadal began half an hour before midnight and ended at 2:11 am with what was one of the meetings later in the history of the event.
The Beijing 2008 champion won 3-6, 6 to 1, 6-4 and 6-2 and will face for a place in the finals with the Briton Andy Murray, who cut short the run of 23 victories followed by Argentine Juan Martin del Potro.
The South American showed the emotion contained drag. "I do not want long run to mourn, but it is very difficult to talk about the game that we play. If I have to get something clean of defeat is having left everything on the court.
"Now, to stop the ball, see all the nice things I did and move forward," he said after falling 7 - 6 (7-2), 7-6 (7-1), 4-6 and 7-5 before Murray .
The day was extended mainly by the marathon tennis player who disputed the Williams sisters. In the end, Serena advanced to semifinals by defeating Venus 7-6 (8-6) and 7-6 (9-7). His opponent in the semifinals will be Russian Dinara Safina, who beat Italy's Flavia Pennetta and was just two victories to emulate his elder brother Marat, champion in New York in 2000.
