Djokovic, Barty and Kerber in quarterfinals, Svyatek and Gough out
World number one male player Novak Djokovic of Serbia, world number one female player Ashleigh Barty of Australia and 29th seed Germany’s Angelique Kerber on Monday entered the quarterfinals of the year’s third Grand Slam Wimbledon Tennis Championships with victories in consecutive sets. While former French Open champion and seventh seed Iga Swietek of Poland and 20th seed Coco Gauff of America were eliminated in the fourth round.
Five-time champion Djokovic defeated Chile’s Cristian Garin 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 in just one hour and 49 minutes to reach the quarterfinals for the 12th time and reach the semi-finals. Djokovic will face Hungary’s Marten Fuksovic, who knocked out fifth seed Andrei Rublev of Russia 6-3, 4-6, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals for the first time.
Barty defeated Czech Republic’s Barbora Krejcikova 7-5, 6-3 in one hour and 35 minutes to reach the quarterfinals for the first time. Swietek went down in three sets 7-5, 1-6, 1-6 in one hour and 41 minutes, despite winning the first set from Tunisia’s Ons Jabour.
Meanwhile, 29th seed Kerber beat 20th seed Goff 6-4, 6-4 in 76 minutes to advance to the last eight, where she will face Karolina Mukova of the Czech Republic. Mukova defeated Spain’s Paula Badousa 7-6, 6-4 in one hour and 33 minutes.
Second seed Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus defeated 18th seed Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 in one hour and 49 minutes to make it to the last eight.
Italy’s Matteo Berrettini, seventh seed among men, and Karolina Pliskova of Czech Republic, eighth seed among women, also made the last eight. Berrettini defeated Belarus’s Ilya Ivashka 6-4, 6-3, 6-1 in one hour and 47 minutes to reach the quarterfinals, while Pliskova defeated Russia’s Lyudmila Semesonova 6-2, 6-3 in just 75 minutes. did.
Canada’s Denis Shapovalov, 10th seed, defeated eighth seed Roberto Batista Agut of Spain 6-1, 6-3, 7-5 in two hours and seven minutes to reach the last eight. Shapovalov will face 25th seed Karen Khachanov of Russia in the last eight, who defeated Sebastian Korda of America in five sets in 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 5-7, in the fourth round of a marathon Lost 10-8.
