Sam Querrey crashes Wimbledon semifinals, and Roger Federer is last of the ‘Big Four’.
Channel: News For You
Date: 2017-07-13

WIMBLEDON, England — Something of a tennis extraterrestrial will alight on Centre Court come Friday. It will be a male American in a Grand Slam semifinal, and that will be a first in these 2010s that are closer to their end than their beginning. It will have come, of course, under suboptimal circumstances. 

Sam Querrey, a 29-year-old Californian who didn’t reach a Grand Slam quarterfinal until Wimbledon 2016, but kept plugging through his 37 Grand Slams before that, will become the first American male Grand Slam semifinalist since Andy Roddick in 2009. Like Roddick, whose masterful semifinal then against Andy Murray featured four tight sets, Querrey sent the Centre Court locals to murmuring and then to resignation on Wednesday, shooing the British two-time champion from the Wimbledon quarterfinals by 3-6, 6-4, 6-7 (7-4), 6-1, 6-1. 
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2017/07/12/sam-querrey-rallies-past-hobbled-andy-murray-at-wimbledon-to-end-american-tennis-drought/