Michael Venus blown away by winning on the central court

This was not just a player on the Central Court at Wimbledon who did this as a special day for Michael Venus That was the way Venus was in the semifinals of the men's doubles after he and Raven Klaasen won a five-set marathon on center court Tuesday which lasted four hours and 15 minutes, defeating Jamie Murray of the Great Britain and Bruno Soares of Brazil 6-7 7-6 5-7 7-6 6-4.

The Roof had to be closed before the last set because of the declining light and the match had a dramatic end.

Venus and Klaasen had two match points at 5-2 and 15-40, but could not clinch one of them and overall reached 4-4. 5 in the service of Soares. At that time, Venus and Klaasen increased their levels and broke the Brazilian to like winning the match

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This was the perfect conclusion of the perfect day for Venus, a victory over the world's most iconic tennis court.

"I thought it was incredible," Venus said of her experience at the Center Court.

"It's so cool, even going out the tunnel to go out there."

"Then be there, look around and take it all, it was all I imagined."

Venus became the first New Zealander to play at Center Court as James Greenhalgh and Steven Downs won the men's doubles in 1993.

Venus played at Philippe Chatrier Court at Roland Garros last year when he won the men's doubles final. Arthur Ashe Court at the US Open in the Mixed Doubles Final 2017.

These are great experiences and this win is with them

"Every time you play on this ground, it will be special. " he said, "But to have a match like that and play like we did, then the result at the top, it's really something very special."

Regarding this Quarterfinal match, Venus thought that it was a close match.

"I felt that it was a few points here or there."

"I felt like we had a better start and in the decisive game we did not perform a few things and lost the first set." Then I felt as if we had stolen the second set. "We unfortunately lost third place, we played a very good tiebreaker in the fourth set, and then we said to start again and go."

In the semi-finals, Venus and Klaasen South Africa will face Frederik Nielsen of Denmark and Londoner Joe Salisbury

Nielsen and Salisbury received a wildcard to play at Wimbledon and this should be a match that Venus and Klaasen

"Freddie won ago a few years (2012 with Jonny Marray), so he knows what he's doing on those shorts and in those moments, "said Venus

" He's obviously a very good player and he's playing with a young Brit guy.

"I saw him play some of his games and he" We're going to need to play well, but I think we're playing well now, so we have to go about our things and ourselves . "

Meanwhile, Artem Wimbledon of Sitak ended on court number 3.

He and his Indian partner Divij Sharan lost 7-6 7-6 6-7 6-4 to Jack Sock and Mike Bryan in just under three and a quarter hours, in a match that fell to a few crucial points.

"We definitely thought we could do it again, but I thought it was a great game overall," Sitak said.

"It was of very high quality against two of the best doubles players." Mike Bryan is the world's No. 1 and Jack Sock usually wins when he plays. "But we held firm, we did very well played, we had opportunities and if one of those tiebreaks was going on, I thought the second should have been, then we would have been two to one and it's a different story.

"We gave it all there- low and unfortunately we are a little short this time "

Earlier, Lulu Sun lost 7 -6 6-3 to Xinyu Wang of China in the girl's singles.

– Stuff