Marin Cilic beat Roger Federer 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
Croatian reaches his first ever US Open (and Grand Slam) final
Croatian reaches his first ever US Open (and Grand Slam) final
Marin Cilic, the 6’ 6” giant from Croatia who served a doping ban last year, overpowered Federer as the weather turned more stormy, ousting him 6-3 6-4 6-4 in just an hour and three quarters
Kei Nishikori beat Novak Djokovic 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3 in the other semi-final
Nishikori is the first Asian man to reach a Grand Slam final
Kei Nishikori(24)from Japan, braved fierce heat and humidity to beat the world No 1 6-4,
1-6, 7-6, 6-3 in two hours 52 minutes and become the first male from his
country to reach a Grand Slam in the modern era.
Marin Cilic clinches 2014 US Open title
Croatia's Cilic won his first Grand Slam title by beating Japan's Kei Nishikori 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 on Monday Sep 08,2014 at Flushing Meadows, using 17 aces - including four in one game
The 14th-seeded Cilic prevented the 10th-seeded Nishikori from becoming the first man from Asia to win a major singles championship.
Cilic smashed 17 aces to Nishikori's two in a serving masterclass
Both
players have emerged under the guidance of former championsCilic is
coached by Goran Ivanisevic and Nishikori by Michael Chang
The US Open
final that nobody predicted and not everyone wanted was seized on
Monday night with unblinking composure by Croatian giant Marin Cilic.
The
No. 14 seed completed his third consecutive straight sets win to defeat
a somewhat overwhelmed Kei Nishikori 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 in less than two
hours to deny Japan its equally unlikely Grand Slam winner.
Among
the celebs in attendance on this historic day were Bill Gates, Bruce
Willis and Emma Heming, Olivia Munn, Christie Brinkley, Michael J. Fox
and Tracy Pollan, Anna Kournikova, Andy Cohen, Jeff Gordon, and Liev
Schreiber, with son Samuel.
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