If Federer gets to the final, he could face No. 2-seeded Andy Murray, who handily defeated No. 15 Nick Kyrgios 7-5, 6-1, 6-4 in the last match on Centre Court to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals for the ninth successive year. Play was then delayed for almost 30 minutes while the retractable roof was closed.
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With minimum fuss Japan’s Kei Nishikori brushed past Andrey Kuznetsov 7-5, 6-3, 7-5 yesterday to advance to a fourth-round Wimbledon showdown with Marin Cilic. The victor will play either No. 19 Dominika Cibulkova or Elena Vesnina, who faced off on No. 1 Court. “I think that is a lot of matches”, she said.
Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber ground out a 7-6 (13-11) 6-1 win over unseeded fellow German Carina Witthoeft at Wimbledon on Saturday in a third-round contest high on drama but variable in quality.
Kerber, a semi-finalist at Wimbledon in 2012, pushed her career head-to-head record against Doi to 5-0.
Many predicted that world No. 3-ranked Romanian Simona Halep would win the nearing Wimbledon 2016 quarterfinals today.
“The most important thing was that I stayed there, I kept my concentration till the end and I was fighting”.
When Bertens broke the world number five in the first game of the match, the alarm bells must have started ringing for Halep as she stood at the baseline with her head hanging.
The world number one and top seed, a six-time victor at the All England Club and the defending champion, thumped Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-4 6-4 to set up a meeting with another Russian, unseeded Elena Vesnina.
Play is underway under cloudy skies on Day 8 at Wimbledon, kicking off the busiest day in Grand Slam tennis.
The 28-year-old German, who reached the last four at the All England Club four years ago, beat fifth seed Simona Halep in a topsy-turvy match on Centre Court which included thirteen breaks of serve.
The 28th-seeded American advanced to the quarterfinals by beating Nicolas Mahut of France 6-4, 7-6 (5), 6-4 on Court 18. The most recent match came in this year’s Romania vs. Germany, a match Kerber won in straight sets.
Kerber wasted no time being the first player to reach the ladies’ quarterfinals on Monday. “I was match point down in the first round in Melbourne”.
In a match in which both players smashed the ball across the net for a succession of blistering winners, the Russian 21st seed played with far greater control on the big points and made fewer mistakes than her American opponent.
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Stat of the Day: 36 ” Age of Venus Williams, making her the oldest woman to reach a Grand Slam semifinal since Martina Navratilova was 37 when she was the 1994 runner-up at Wimbledon.
