NEW YORK — Roger Federer shanked. He took an off-court medical timeout. He straight up stopped playing on one point. Federer was anything but himself, falling in five sets in the U.S. Open quarterfinals on Tuesday night.
Grigor Dimitrov, a former world No. 3 whose ranking has fallen to a seven-year-low 78, pulled off the stunner 3-6, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 to make his third Grand Slam semifinal and his first since January 2017.
“[Federer] kind of started slowing down a little bit,” Dimitrov said. “For sure at the end he was not 100 percent.