Wimbledon Quarter Finals

The remaining sixteen men and women took the courts to play out the singles quarter finals at Wimbledon. The women played their matches yesterday and for once, the men out shadowed them today. The only previous women's Wimbledon champion remaining, Maria Sharapova, wasted no time in booking her place in the semi-finals; she beat Cibulkova 6-1 6-1. Sharapova will face Sabine Lisicki in the semis and I think the winner will win the tournament. Lisicki beat ninth seed Bartoli 6-4 6-7 6-1 to progress and remain as the real dark horse of the competition. Fourth seed Azarenka also won in straight sets against the unseeded Paszek, winning 6-3 6-1. Azarenka will face eighth seed Kvitova as the Czech beat Pironkova 6-3 6-7 6-2.

But it was the men's quarter finals that produced the drama as they took place today. Up first on centre court was third seed Federer who was against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. The twelfth seed looked extremely nervous in the first set and quickly lost it 6-3. But the Frenchman battled back in the second set and showed us all that he really is quite a good player. The second set went into a tie break which Federer easily won 6-3 to make it two sets to nil and looked certain to progress into the semis. But Tsonga wasn't finished and took the third set 6-4 before repeating the feat in the fourth set. Unbelievably, Tsonga was able to complete the comeback and won the final set also by 6-4 to dump Federer out and progress into the semi-finals.

Tsonga will meet second seed Djokovic in the semis but faced his fair share of drama on court one. Djokovic played the unseeded Australian teenager Tomic and looked to be cruising when he took the first set 6-2. But Tomic showed fantastic character and equalised by taking the set 6-3. Unfortunately, Tomic couldn't keep the momentum up and Djokovic took the third set 6-3 and the fourth set 7-5 to progress.

Andy Murray had arguably the easiest test against the unseeded Feliciano Lopez, the ladies favourite. But Murray eased to victory with set wins of 6-3 6-4 6-4. Murray has unsurprisingly set up a semi-final battle against Nadal. The top seed faced tenth seed Mardy Fish but found himself two sets down as Nadal won them 6-3 6-3. But the American fought back to take the third set 7-5 but Nadal stopped any chance of a Tsonga-style comeback and won the fourth set 6-4.