- Bulgarian wins 3-6, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 at Flushing Meadows
- Federer ‘not 100% himself’ towards end of match
Grigor Dimitrov, the world No 78 who came into this year’s US Open amid one of the worst runs of form of a 12-year professional career that hasn’t always lived up to expectations, rallied from two sets to one down to stun an ailing Roger Federer and the Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd squarely behind him in a quarter-final thriller on a muggy Tuesday night in Queens.
The Bulgarian came from behind to outlast the 20-time grand slam champion he’d never beaten to win 3-6, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, scuttling a much-fancied matchup between Federer and Rafael Nadal in Sunday’s final and becoming the lowest ranked major semi-finalist since Germany’s Rainer Schuettler, then 94th in the world, reached the last four at Wimbledon in 2008.
Written by Bryan Armen Graham at Flushing Meadows
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