No 1 Novak Djokovic lined up a Montreal Masters semi-final with a second straight French opponent after defeating fifth seed Gael Monfils 6-2, 6-1 on Friday
No 1 Novak Djokovic lined up a Montreal Masters semi-final with a second straight French opponent after defeating fifth seed Gael Monfils 6-2, 6-1 on Friday.
Serbian Novak Djokovic during Friday's Rogers Cup quarter-final
against France's Gael Monfils in Montreal. PIC/AFP
Djokovic, playing is first event on the ATP top ranking, will Saturday face 13th seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who followed up his third-round upset of two-time winner Roger Federer with a win over Spain's Nicolas Almagro 6-4, 6-4.
"I have played the best match of the tournament, no doubt," Djokovic said. Tsonga needed one break per set and less than 90 minutes to dispatch Almagro, firing ten aces and saving three points in the final game for victory.
Bopanna-Qureshi exit
India'su00a0 Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi were forced to concede their doubles quarter-final match to top seeds Mike and Bob Bryan due to an injury to the Indian Davis Cupper.
The Indo-Pak pair was locked 3-3 in the opening set with USA's Bryan brothers but opted out of the contest when Bopanna's left ankle started giving him trouble.u00a0
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