Djokovic, Murray reach quarters
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WORLD No. 1 Novak Djokovic racked up his 30th win of a dominant season with a 6-2, 6-1 destruction of Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut to reach the Madrid Masters quarterfinals yesterday.
Defending champion Andy Murray also sealed his place in the last eight with a 6-4, 6-2 win over 16th seed Gilles Simon.
Djokovic is playing in Madrid for the first time in three years, but hasn’t taken long to adjust to the different conditions in the altitude of the Spanish capital as he has reached the quarters for the loss of just nine games.
The Serb will continue his quest for a fifth title of the season against Milos Raonic or Jo-Wilfried Tsonga today.
Murray extended his impressive record over Simon to 14-2, but wasn’t pushed as hard as he often has been in the past by the Frenchman as he didn’t even face a break point in just over an hour-and-a-half on court.
The two-time grand slam champion will face Thomas Berdych after the Czech beat David Ferrer 7-6 (8), 7-5.
“After the first six or seven games I really started to hit the ball well,” said Murray. “I served well throughout the match. It was a good performance.”
Rafael Nadal, who could meet Murray in a repeat of last year’s final, continues his quest for a fifth title in Madrid and a record 50th on clay when he faces American Sam Querrey later.
World No. 6 Kei Nishikori continued his fine form on the clay in Spain to reach the last eight with a 6-4, 7-5 win over 10th seed Richard Gasquet.
Nishikori lost out to Nadal in the final of the Barcelona Open two weeks ago and will meet Australian Nick Kyrgios or Uruguay’s Pablo Cuevas in the quarters after registering his first win over Gasquet in seven attempts.
The Japanese survived a blip when he missed out on two match points on his own serve before being broken at 5-4 in the second. However, he responded immediately to break the Gasquet serve for the fourth time in the match before serving it out at the second attempt.
In the women’s Madrid Open, the only remaining seed Simona Halep beat Irina-Camelia Begu in an all-Romanian quarterfinal 6-3, 0-6, 6-1.
Sixth seed Halep — a finalist in Madrid in 2014 — will face another Romanian Patricia Maria Tig or former US Open champion Sam Stosur in the last four.
American qualifier Louisa Chirico also continued her fairytale run. Chirico, ranked 130, beat Australian Daria Gavrilova 7-6 (1), 6-2 to reach her first ever WTA semifinal where she will face Dominika Cibulkova or Sorana Cristea.
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