US Open. The main matches of the ninth day

On Tuesday, the matches on US Open will hold the first racket of the world Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic. Serena Williams - Carla Suarez Navarro

For its rival in the quarterfinals Carla Suarez Navarro Serena Williams met twice before and both won comfortably enough - 6:0, 6:3 in the Australian Open-2010 and 6-2, 6-0 in Rome this year.


Tennis player from the Canary Islands, which is just on Tuesday will be 25 years old, is no stranger to the top eight at the tournament "Grand Slam" - she played in the quarter-finals of the debut Roland Garros-2008 and the Australian Open-2009. This year, the Spanish flu, which is able not only fun to play on clay was in the fourth round in Paris and at Wimbledon. In New York, the same Suarez Navarro beat two Americans Lauren Davis and Coco Vandevey, Chinese girl Zheng Jie and eighth of "sowing" Angelica Kerber in the tie-break in the third set.

But Serena Williams, and even in its current form, a rival entirely different level, and in order to defeat it, Spaniard will need to come up with something extraordinary. Francesca Schiavone, Galina Voskoboeva, Yaroslava Shvedova and even Sloane Stephens to do so failed. Let's see what the competition offers the main favorite birthday girl.

Andy Murray - Denis Istomin

Beating Nicolas Almagro, Tobias Kamke and Andreas Seppi, Denis Istomin for the second time in his career came in the fourth round of the tournament "Grand Slam" and the first - at the U.S. Open. Now it is waiting for a meeting with one of the best tennis players in the world - number three ranking ATP and the current US Open champion Andy Murray. The British, though, and lost one set of Leonardo Mayer of Argentina in New York looks like a good idea until. And on his next opponent, he very highly:

"He's a very good player. Istomin has a very flat ball. In his previous match, he filed an incredibly well, played great. Denis had a good match against Novak in Montreal and then won a number of strong players," - said the third "seeded".

Murray and Istomin met only once before - in the quarterfinals of the tournament in Brisbane at the beginning of this year. There, on the way to the first of four titles won by them in the 2013 season, Andy won in straight sets, but do not say that lightly - 6:4, 7:6. Of course, he will come to court and a favorite at this time.

Novak Djokovic - Marcel Granollers

Summer 2013 has turned out to Marcel Granollers successful: he won the tournament in Kitzbuehel and now for the first time in his career came in the fourth round negruntovogo tournament "Grand Slam". All three of their matches in New York (Jurgen Zopp, Radizhva Frame and Tim Smyczek) 27-year-old tennis player from Barcelona won in five sets, but the fatigue of him on Tuesday will have to forget - he will oppose top-ranked Novak Djokovic.

The Serb is on a 1/8 finals did not lose a single game and hardly going to do it in a duel with the 43rd player in the world. Djokovic and Granollers have met only once before, but also in the tournament "Grand Slam" - in the first round of the 2011 Australian Open-Serb won without any difficulties (6:1, 6:3, 6:1).