Berdych was taken to a tiebreak in the first set but raced into a 5-1 lead and held off a mini fight back at 5-4 to see it out in 54 minutes.
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The Czech player Tomas Berdych was unhappy with how his match against Jiri Vesely was handled by the umpire.
Tomas Berdych fired a verbal volley at Wimbledon after being forced to play on into the twilight gloom then return Tuesday to book his place in the quarter-finals.
Elsewhere, with a whole host of other matches to be played having already started, we’ll switch our attention to one that has yet to get underway.
Top-ranked Serena will face No. 21-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova on Centre Court in one of the day’s four women’s quarterfinals.
A few minutes later, the players were called off court.
“Hopefully everything goes well, I can make the match done – and finally have a day off”. Play was suspended shortly after 9.15pm.
Looking in fine form after two days of rest, Roger Federer equaled Jimmy Connors’ Open-era record by reaching his 14th Wimbledon quarterfinal and added to his own mark by making it at least that far at a Grand Slam tournament for the 48th time.
Pouille, the 32nd seed, had displayed some very good form throughout the first three rounds, knocking over the likes of Juan Martin Del Potro and Donald Young, who he defeated in straight sets, before keeping his cool to take a five-set win over Australian Bernard Tomic. “When I ask, I’ve been told, “It’s too late, you have to finish that”, he said of the fourth set tie break.
As a permanent fixture of the top 10 since 2010 and a runner-up at Wimbledon, losing to Rafa Nadal in the same year, Berdych knows class when he sees it and heralded his 19-year-old opponent, seeded 24, as a future grand slam victor. Williams later scoffed at suggestions she was going to sue the All England Club, however.
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Berdych now awaits the victor of the last remaining quarter-final between Andy Murray and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. On No. 1 court, five-time champion Venus Williams is up against Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan.
