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Serena, Djokovic cruise but heat, Makarova take toll on Bouchard
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SERENA Williams and Novak Djokovic kept their time in blazing conditions to a bare minimum on Monday as they breezed into the US Open quarterfinals but Eugenie Bouchard’s hopes of a maiden grand slam title melted away in the heat.
Djokovic charged past Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-1, 7-5, 6-4 to set up a blockbuster meeting with longtime rival Andy Murray, who booked his own place in the last eight with a steamy 7-5, 7-5, 6-4 win over ninth-seeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
Williams warmed up for her match in the mid-day sun sporting a black dinner jacket over her pink leopard print dress and then turned back the frustrations of a disappointing season at the majors by hammering Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi 6-3, 6-3.
Gunning for her third consecutive US Open title, Williams made something of a grand slam breakthrough for 2014 by reaching the last eight.
“I finally made a quarter-final this year!” she shouted to the Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd with arms upraised. “Glad to do it in New York.”
Swiss third seed Stan Wawrinka, 10th seed Kei Nishikori and Victoria Azarenka avoided the worst of the heat by playing under the evening floodlights but they were still made to sweat for their wins.
Japan’s Nishikori, who needed five sets and four hours and 19 minutes to tame fifth-seeded Canadian Milos Raonic 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-4.
With on-court temperatures hovering near 38 degrees Celsius, it was another day of survival of the fittest at Flushing Meadows and seventh seed Bouchard was simply not up to the challenge.
The 20-year-old Canadian’s bid for a fourth consecutive grand slam semifinal appearance came to a distressing end with a 6-7 (2), 4-6 loss to Russian Ekaterina Makarova.
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