Twenty-fifth seeded Keys equaled her best result at the Grand Slam in London today, she was also among the top eight in 2015. On grass, she extended this year’s unbeaten streak to nine matches. Her next opponent will be second seed Aryna Sabalenková from Belarus.
Jelena Rybakinová from Kazakhstan can still think about defending her Wimbledon title. She advanced to the quarterfinals after Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia retired after five games due to injury. Rybakinová, seeded third, led 4:1.
Since Sunday, Markéta Vondroušová has also been in the quarterfinals, and on Tuesday she will face the American Pegula.
The Serbian managed the endgame, Tsitsipas finishes
Seven-time Wimbledon champion Djokovic went into the final on center court with two tie-break winners in his back. At the end of the third set, he was the first in the match to lose serve, and thus also lost a set for the first time this year. But in the fourth set, at 3:3, the 36-year-old Serb took the world No. 18’s serve for the first and last time – and also as the first player at this year’s tournament – and three games later, after a total of three hours and seven minutes of fighting, ended the match with a clear game.
His next opponent will be world number seven Andrei Rublev from Russia. “I can’t even imagine that it could be more difficult than against Hubert, who served incredibly well,” Djokovic said on court.
For the first time among the eight, the current world number one Carlos Alcaraz from Spain is on the London grass, who after a turn knocked out last year’s finalist Matteo Berrettini from Italy.
He lost the first set 3:6, but won the next three by the same ratio. In his third appearance at Wimbledon, the twenty-year-old Spaniard improved last year’s best by one round. The US Open winner will next challenge fellow sixth-ranked player Holger Rune from Denmark, who got past Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and followed up with a quarter-final appearance at the French Open after last year’s elimination in the first round of his Wimbledon debut.
On the other hand, fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas finished in the round of 16. The Greek tennis player and Australian Open finalist was defeated by unseeded American Christopher Eubanks after a five-set battle 3:6, 7:6, 3:6, 6:4, 6:4. While the 24-year-old Greek favorite only equaled his 2018 best on London grass, Eubanks, three years older, is playing the tournament of a lifetime as he advances beyond the second round at a Grand Slam for the first time and makes his first ever main draw at Wimbledon.
He came to London as the winner of the preparatory tournament in Mallorca, where he won the premiership trophy. At the same time, Eubanks hated the grass until now, as he recently stated, and now he has a nine-game winning streak on it. “These words will not come out of my mouth for the rest of my career. I would say we had a complicated relationship with weed. But right now it’s my best friend,” Eubanks stated at the press conference. In the quarterfinals, he will face Jiří Lehečka’s defeater, Daniil Medvedev.
Wimbledon in London (grass, subsidy 44.7 million pounds): Women: Singles – 4th round: Keys (25-USA) – Andreyeva (Russia) 3:6, 7:6 (7:4), 6:2Rybakin (3-Kaz.) – Haddadová Maiaová (13-Braz.) 4:1 skrech. Sabalenková (2-Bel.) – Alexandrova (21-Rus.) 6:4, 6:0 Men: Singles – 4th round: Djokovic (2-Serb.) – Hurkacz (17-Pol.) 7:6 (8:6), 7:6 (8:6), 5:7, 6:4Eubanks (USA) – Tsitsipas (5-Greece) 3:6, 7:6 (7:4), 3:6, 6:4, 6:4 Rune (6-Dan.) – Dimitrov (21-Bulgaria) 3:6, 7:6 (8:6) , 7:6 (7:4), 6:3 Alcaraz (1-Sp.) – Berrettini (It.) 3:6, 6:3, 6:3, 6:3 Results of Czech tennis players can be found here
2023-07-11 09:05:14
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