WIMBLEDON, England — Rafael Nadal kept his calendar Grand Slam dream alive Wednesday but it took everything he had.
The Spaniard beat American Taylor Fritz in a fifth-set tie-breaker 10-4 in a grueling match that consumed four hours, 21 minutes.
Nadal, winner of the Australian and French opens, moves on to a Wimbledon semifinal showdown with Australian Nick Kyrgios, who glided to victory earlier in the day with a straight-sets victory over Chile's Cristian Garin — a match that required about half the time of Nadal-Fritz.
