Tennis-Thiem rides the 嵐／襲撃する to knock out Djokovic
By Martyn Herman
PARIS, June 8 (Reuters) - Austrian Dominic Thiem 鎮圧するd Novak Djokovic's French Open hopes as he 生き残るd a 天候-荒廃させるd 半分-final spanning 24 hours to 完全にする a 6-2 3-6 7-5 5-7 7-5 victory on Saturday and 始める，決める up a repeat of last year's 対決 with Rafael Nadal.
More than an hour after the women's final should have started on another 嵐の day on 法廷，裁判所 Philippe Chatrier, fourth seed Thiem 強くたたくd a forehand 勝利者 past Djokovic to 調印（する） victory after squandering two earlier match points.
It snapped Djokovic's 26-match winning streak in Grand 激突する matches and ended the Serbian's hopes of 持つ／拘留するing all four of the sport's major prizes 同時に for the second time, having 達成するd it by winning his only French Open in 2016.
Djokovic, who had 追跡するd 6-2 3-6 3-1 夜通し after the 半分-final had been curtailed on Friday because of rain and 勝利，勝つd, had won his previous 10 Grand 激突する 半分-決勝戦.
The world number one had looked serene throughout the fortnight, not dropping a 始める，決める, but in "ハリケーン" 条件s he 述べるd as the "worst he had ever played in" he was blown off course by the ferocious hitting of Thiem.
The 25-year-old, who lost to Nadal in last year's final, 扱うd the elements better as he kept alive his dream of winning a first major 肩書を与える when he takes on the 11-times 支持する／優勝者 again on Sunday.
"If you reach the final here it's always against Rafa," the 25-year-old said on 法廷，裁判所. "It was an amazing experience last year and I will try everything to be better this year."
Thiem said he had no （民事の）告訴s that the match had been stopped on Friday with the 勝利，勝つd strength 増加するing and a 予測（する） for more rain to come.
The second stanza of the match began in teasing 勝利，勝つd that often played tricks with the ball, yet the 質 of the tennis produced was often scintillating.
Djokovic got straight into his groove and broke 支援する in the third game of the day. He was 否定するd another break at 4-4 when Thiem failed to put away two 粉砕するs but then got an outrageous 逮捕する cord off an audacious half-ボレー.
Under 圧力 in the 12th game Djokovic was given a time 違反 before saving three 始める，決める points, one with an エース.
But a sensational forehand pass by Thiem gave him a fourth 始める，決める point which he 変えるd when his dipping backhand 軍隊d a ボレー error from Djokovic.
TIME VIOLATION
Djokovic, still annoyed by his time 違反, 爆発するd furiously at the umpire and was given a 警告 for unsportsmanlike 行為／行う.
The 15-times Grand 激突する 支持する／優勝者 回復するd his composure, however, to break serve twice in the fourth 始める，決める but on both occasions the attacking Thiem 攻撃する，衝突する 支援する すぐに.
Thiem 二塁打-faulted at 5-5 to gift Djokovic another break and this time the Serbian made it stick to take the match into a decider.
The fifth 始める，決める was as wild as the 天候.
Thiem broke to move into a 4-1 lead and had a point to lead 5-1, which Djokovic saved with a clubbing forehand.
Seconds later a howling rain squall sent the players off 法廷，裁判所 for more than an hour and when they returned Thiem looked 均衡を保った to 勝利，勝つ when serving at 5-3 and 40-15.
He 崩壊するd, however, gifting Djokovic four points in a 列／漕ぐ／騒動 and his chance appeared to have gone when Djokovic made it 5-5.
Somehow he put that behind him, though, and when Djokovic served at 5-6 he was the one who buckled.
Two tight forehands 強くたたくd into the 逮捕する to give Thiem a third match point and this time the Austrian 大打撃を与えるd home a forehand to 誘発する 祝賀s in his coaching box.
"It was an epic match," claycourt 軍人 Thiem, who also （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Djokovic here in 2017, said. "Somehow I had the feeling that I had the lead in the whole match.
"I luckily got the better in the end." (報告（する）／憶測ing by Martyn Herman; editing by Clare Fallon and Ed Osmond)
