Breaking: Rafael Nadal is one step closer to a 22nd grand slam title, knocking Novak Djokovic out of the French Open in an epic quarter-final clash
Wow. Nadal just doing Nadal things.
After being down a break in the fourth set, the 13-time French Open champion fought his way back into the fourth set and has defeated Djokovic in the tiebreaker, taking it out 7-4. Djokovic saved three match points - the latter thanks to a booming forehand winner straight off Nadal’s serve - but Nadal was too good in the end. He gets an enormous cheer from the crowd.
Nadal is through to the semi-finals and has knocked off last year’s champion with a performance that surely puts him as favourite to take out a remarkable 14th title in Paris.Djokovic gets his first point of the tiebreaker on serve but then bottles a regulation forehand which sails long.All the momentum is with Nadal at the moment, who leads 5-1.
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