NEW YORK (AP) — Roger Federer got another crack at Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in a Grand Slam quarterfinal — and beat him. Now Novak Djokovic gets another shot at Federer.
Federer reached his eighth consecutive semifinal at the U.S. Open by beating Tsonga 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 on Thursday night in a match delayed about 112 hours by rain in the first set.
At Wimbledon in late June, Tsonga upset 16-time major champion Federer in the quarterfinals after dropping the first two sets. Until that loss, Federer was 178-0 when taking a two-set lead in a Grand Slam match.
Now Federer will face the top-seeded Djokovic at the U.S. Open for the fifth straight year; Federer is 3-1 so far. They met in the semifinals at this year’s French Open, where Federer ended Djokovic’s 43-match winning streak.
