IMAGES from Day 7 at Wimbledon on Monday
IMAGE: Switzerland’s Roger Federer celebrates winning his fourth round match against France’s Adrian Mannarino. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
Champion Roger Federer’s pursuit of a record ninth Wimbledon title gathered momentum on Monday as he reached the quarter-finals with a 6-0, 7-5, 6-4 win over Frenchman Adrian Mannarino.
Federer was in blinding form during the first set, which blazed by in 16 minutes, but after the Swiss missed four break points in the opening game of the second set, Mannarino made more of a match of it.
The world number 26 became the first man to reach break points against the 36-year-old at the All England Club this year, but failed to convert any of them as Federer made it to at least the last eight of the grasscourt major for the 16th time.
He will next play either another Frenchman, Gael Monfils, or South African eighth seed Kevin Anderson.
IMAGE: Czech Republic’s Karolina Pliskova reacts during the fourth round match against Netherland’s Kiki Bertens. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters
Kiki Bertens completed the demolition of Wimbledon’s top eight women’s seeds with a 6-3, 7-6(1) defeat of Czech Karolina Pliskova to reach the quarter-finals on Monday.
Bertens, the first Dutchwoman to reach the last 16 since
Michaella Krajicek, sister of former men’s champion Richard, did so in 2007, followed up her win over Venus Williams in the third round with a display of power and poise.
Pliskova, seeded seven, was the highest-ranked player to reach the fourth round after an extraordinary first week of upsets but her hopes of further progress evaporated on a stiflingly hot Court Two.
The tall Czech answered an early break with one of her own but 20th seed Bertens secured a second break with a superb touch volley to move 5-3 ahead and then held with ease.
Bertens built a 4-1 lead in the second set with Pliskova appearing to lack energy at times — occasionally making little attempt to chase balls down.
IMAGE: Netherland’s Kiki Bertens in action during the fourth round match against Czech Republic’s Karolina Pliskova. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters
But Pliskova, who reached number one in the rankings after Wimbledon last year, found some fight and capitalised on a loose game by Bertens that allowed her to break back and level the set at 4-4.
When the set drifted to a tiebreak, Bertens quickly found another gear, firing one superb forehand winner down the line.
An ace took her to 4-0 and there was no coming back for Pliskova. At 6-1 Bertens thought she had over-cooked a forehand swing volley but after Pliskova challenged the call the Hawkeye screen showed it had clipped the baseline.
She celebrated and her watching father puffed out his cheeks in relief. Bertens will play either 13th seed Julia Goerges or Croatia’s Donna Vekic for a place in the semi-finals.
Ostapenko fights back to enter quarters again
IMAGE: Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko in action during the fourth round match against Belarus’ Aliaksandra Sasnovich. Photograph: Tony O’Brien/Reuters
Twelfth seed Jelena Ostapenko came back from 5-2 down to crush Aliaksandra Sasnovich 7-6(4), 6-0 and reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the second year running on Monday.
The 21-year-old Latvian former French Open champion looked in trouble with her Belarusian opponent racing into a 5-2 lead after delivering a superb lob.
However, Ostapenko then seemed stung into action by a warning for coaching and reeled off four games to turn the tables, winning the set in 56 minutes.
Sasnovich, who upset eighth seed Petra Kvitova in the opening round, won one more game to send the set into a tiebreak which she lost 7-4 on a double fault.
Ostapenko, who has yet to drop a set in the tournament, clinched the set in 56 minutes then took half that time to win the second as Sasnovich’s game deserted her.
Sasnovich, 24, saved four break points in the fourth game of the second set, her last stand, but could not hold.
Ostapenko proved too strong in the end and will be favoured in her quarter-final to beat Dominika Cibulkova, one of a record nine unseeded players to reach the fourth round since the number of seeds was increased to 32 in 2001.
Slovakian Cibulkova ended Su-Wei Hsieh’s run after the Taiwanese had upset top seed Simona Halep. Only one of the top 10 women reached the fourth round for the first time in the Open era.
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