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US Open 2013: Richard Gasquet beats Raonic to reach last eight
Gasquet, whose only prior fourth-round win in 17 Grand Slam attempts came on his way to the 2007 Wimbledon semi-final, will face Spanish fourth seed David Ferrer in the quarter-finals. Ferrer is 8-1 all-time against Gasquet.
New York:
French eighth seed Richard Gasquet advanced to the US Open quarter-finals Monday by beating Canadian 10th seed Milos Raonic 6-7 (4/7), 7-6 (7/4), 2-6, 7-6 (11/9), 7-5 after four hours and 40 minutes.
Gasquet, whose only prior fourth-round win in 17 Grand Slam attempts came on his way to the 2007 Wimbledon semi-final, will face Spanish fourth seed David Ferrer in the quarter-finals. Ferrer is 8-1 all-time against Gasquet.
Raonic fired 39 aces, the third most in a men's match in US Open history, but could not become the first Canadian man in a Grand Slam quarter-final since Mike Belkin at the 1968 Australian Open.
Topics mentioned in this article
Tennis
Tiger Woods
Monte Carlo
US Open 2013
Milos Raonic
Leander Paes
Fernando Verdasco
Sania Mirza
Maria Sharapova
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