Nadal's game lasted nearly five hours. Nadal once solved four match points in a long-distance duel, but he finally lost to Mueller with a big score of 3: 6, 4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4, 13: 15. After years of failing to return to the Wimbledon quarter-finals, Nadal is only one step away this time. Although disappointed, he praised the performance of his opponent Muller after the game. Nadal said that he made many mistakes in the first two sets, which made him very passive, but he persisted until the last moment.