The 22-year-old will face either second seed Andy Murray or unseeded Fernando Verdasco for a place in the final.u00a0Janowicz, the 24th seed, fired 30 aces and 58 winners before breaking down in tears and even exchanging shirts with his Davis Cup teammate. <img alt="Jerzy Janowicz" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/jul/Jerzy-Janowicz_1.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 506px;" /> Jerzy Janowicz celebrates after winning a point against Lukasz Kubot &ldquo;I&rsquo;m just really happy. I didn&rsquo;t expect I can go that far in a Grand Slam here at Wimbledon,&rdquo; he said.u00a0&ldquo;Really I have not many words to say right now. I&rsquo;m just really happy and it doesn&rsquo;t matter if I&rsquo;m the first or second from Poland. It&rsquo;s my first semi-final and that&rsquo;s all that matters.&rdquo; Janowicz had already exceeded his best Grand Slam performance by making the quarter-finals and has capitalised on the shock exits of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga from his half of the draw. Kubot, the 31-year-old World No 130, was bidding to become the lowest-ranked semi-finalist at Wimbledon since Vladimir Voltchkov made the last-four as a 237-ranked qualifier in 2000. Victory for Janowicz will see him rise to at least 17 in the rankings next week which would be a career high for the 2.03m giant from Lodz.

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Jerzy Janowicz became the first Polish man to reach a Grand Slam semi-final yesterday when he defeated compatriot Lukasz Kubot 7-5, 6-4, 6-4 in the Wimbledon quarter-finals.

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