Novak Djokovic, 2nd in the world, took a step closer to a 24th Grand Slam title by beating the Pole Hubert Hurkacz (18th) 7-6 (8/6), 7-6 (8/6), 5-7, 6-4, Monday after a match interrupted the day before by the curfew.
He will face the Russian Andrey Rublev (7th) for a place in the semi-finals.
On Sunday evening, the 36-year-old Serb had just won the second decisive game of the game when the supervisor decided to suspend the game around 10:35 p.m., 25 minutes before the entry into force of the curfew on the tournament.
On Monday’s resumption, the two players very quietly kept their face-offs up to 6-5 for the Pole who offered himself two set points on Djokovic’s service and transformed the second.
Faced with the best returner on the circuit, Hurkacz held on thanks to the exceptional regularity of his big serve: 28 aces in the first three sets, 85% of successful first serves in the third and an average of 207 km / h on the first serves in the second. end of the third set.
But in the fourth set, the Pole conceded his very first break of the tournament: Djokovic broke away 4-3 then 5-3 and won by winning his next serve white.
