2023-07-11 22:01:15
Novak Djokovic and Iga Swiatek REUTERS / TOBY MELVILLE / REUTERS / TOBY MELVILLE
World number one Iga Swiatek tripped over the green carpet and Novak Djokovic remained king of Center Court as the quarter-finals began at Church Road.
A Wimbledon,
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Djokovic, again and again
Andrey Rublev was not an expiatory victim on Tuesday. But in the end, it’s always Djokovic who wins, in four sets and a great showdown. Especially on the Center Court, where he has been undefeated for… ten years. The quadruple winner, who became against Hurkacz the third player in history to have played 100 matches at Wimbledon, after Jimmy Connors (102) and Roger Federer (119), signed a 32nd consecutive victory at Church Road. More than ever on the way to an eighth crown on Sunday and a 24th Grand Slam title. To make history, again and again.
first sinner
By ending the great adventure of Russian Roman Safiullin, 92nd in the world (6-4, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2), this Tuesday on Court 1 at Wimbledon, the Italian reached his first half- Grand Slam final of his young career, after four failures at this stage of the competition. Opportunistic, the 21-year-old has taken advantage of a very thin table since he is the first player to join the last four at the All England Club without having had to beat any player in the top 50 since Boris Becker and Pete Sampras in 1995! Solid on serve and from the baseline, he had the merit of upholding his rank, before the expected revenge against Novak Djokovic, from whom he had taken two sets last year on the Center Court in the quarter-finals. He became, by the way, the third Transalpine to join the last four in London.
The emotion of Vondrousova
The 2019 Roland-Garros finalist shed a few tears of joy, before spending several seconds under her towel. Overwhelmed by emotion. Unseeded at Church Road, the Czech knocked down American Jessica Pegula. Finalist at Roland-Garros in 2019, Vondrousova, already defeated by Veronika Kudermetova, Donna Vekic and Marie Bouzkova, is the third player to reach the semi-finals of Wimbledon in the Open era by beating four seeds in her passage, after Zheng Jie (2008) and Barbora Strycova (2019).
Marketa Vondrousova HANNAH MCKAY / REUTERS
The warrior Svitolina
Fallen in 8z of final of Victoria Azarenka, at the end of a fight of more than three hours (2-6, 6-4, 7-6), the former world number 3 tamed the world number one Iga Swiatek (7-5, 6-7, 6-2). The Ukrainian still showed incredible resilience. And was able to respond physically present. A great performance for a 28-year-old player who only returned to competition last April, after becoming a mother. This Tuesday, she dropped her fourth Grand Slam winner since the start of her fortnight and signed a seventh consecutive victory against a world number one. Just that ! Already a quarter-finalist at Roland-Garros, Svitolina is the third player of the Open era (since 1968) to have received an invitation to advance to the semi-finals at Wimbledon after Zheng Jie (2008) and Sabine Lisicki (2011).
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Swiatek’s forehand in the locker room
It is with this weapon in particular that the Pole rules the roost at Roland-Garros where she has won three of the last four editions, but at Wimbledon this Tuesday against Elina Svitolina the world number one was betrayed by her serve and her forehand. The world number one has thus committed 41 unforced errors, including 28 on the forehand. Too, far too many to hope to reach the last four in London for the first time.
Iga Swiatek ANDREW COULDRIDGE / REUTERS
Pegula stuck again in the quarter-finals
Jessica Pegula, seeded 4, is struggling to assume her status as a member of the world’s top 5. Faced with Vondrousava, she lost for the 6th time in the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam, a stage she has never crossed. We can speak of complex with regard to the scenario of his quarter. She led 4-1, ball 5-1 in the 3rd set before collapsing and losing 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. The interruption that occurred at 3-1 in his favor in the 3rd set, the time to close the roof, did not succeed for him and may have brought back the old demons…
Rublev’s glass ceiling
If he did not deserve against Djokovic on Tuesday, far from it, Andrey Rublev, winner of the last Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters, did not take care of his stats: the Russian has never reached a major semi-final in now in 8 attempts. And he made history despite himself by becoming the first player in the Open era to lose his first 8 Grand Slam quarter-finals… but if he shows the good level of play he showed against to the master of the place, the Russian can one day finally break this famous glass ceiling.
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