Elena Rybakina is the only Wimbledon champion left in the women’s draw, while a qualifier is out to ‘do an Emma Raducanu’
Success is no guarantee, though, with the women’s draw once more serving up shocks. Iga Swiatek is out, so too Coco Gauff, with just one more top-10 player joining Rybakina in the quarters.
And with a qualifier among the last eight standing, who lifts the Venus Rosewater Dish come Saturday remains firmly up for debate. HereThis quarter of the draw looked open from the get-go, and that has come to fruition with a qualifier up against an unseeded opponent for a place in the last four.Sun had beat No 8 seed Qinwen Zheng in the first round, and in reaching the last eight here the world No 123 could yet break into the top 50 next week.
If she can carry on this momentum she will be hard to beat, although in world No 37 Donna Vekic she faces an experienced opponent who has been on the grand-slam circuit for more than a decade. Vekic is into her third major quarter-final, but a semi-final still eludes her. Having advanced in three sets in all but one of her four rounds so far, this could go the distance as well, with Vekic out to draw on the form that saw her reach the Bad Homburg final last month.This could be a cracker, with No 7 seed Jasmine Paolini and No 19 seed Emma Navarro both first-time Wimbledon quarter-finalists – and both comfortably enjoying the best year of their careers so far.
After three straight first-round exits, the Italian won her opening three rounds in straight sets, and then advanced to the quarters after opponentNavarro, 23, dropped just seven games against fellow American Gauff, and has a 3-0 record over Paolini after beating her in Miami, Doha and San Diego in the past 12 months.World
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