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  Marin Cilic rolls back the years to win French Open five-set thriller over Andrey Rublev | Tennisspeak C roatian veteran Marin Cilic overcame Russian seventh seed Andrey Rublev in five sets to reach a first semi-final at the French Open. The 33-year-old, who won the US Open in 2014 and was a Wimbledon finalist three years later, won 5-7 6-3 6-4 3-6 7-6 after a deciding-set tie-break. In doing so Cilic became only the fifth active player to have reached the last four of every grand slam after Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray. After their four-hour, 14-minute slugfest, Cilic said: "The win comes from being me, I played that kind of tennis the whole match. Especially the fifth set was an incredible battle. "Andrey played incredibly well, it was an incredibly fair-play performance on the court. "A lot of heart. One had to go down and today was my day. But Andrey also played an incredible match. Bad luck to him. "I felt...