Women's tennis continues to be unpredictable as world number one, Maria Sharapova, is the latest big name to fall from Wimbledon. She faced last year's semi-finalist, Sabine Lisicki, who continued her loving relationship with SW19 with another brilliant display.
Lisicki managed to break Sharapova on her way to taking the opening set 6-4. The French Open champion tried her hardest to fight back and produced some great offensive tennis. But it proved to be insufficient against Lisicki who took the second set 6-3 to book her place into the quarter-finals. The 15th seed will now face fellow German, eighth seed Angelique Kerber, who dispatched Kim Clijsters 6-1 6-1.
But there are still five seeds from the top ten, including Kerber, in the quarter finals. Second seed Victoria Azarenka beat former number one, Ana Ivanovic, 6-1 6-0 to set up a quarter final tie against Eastbourne champion Tamira Paszek. World number three, Agnieszka Radwanska, saw off Camila Giorgi 6-2 6-3 to face Russia's Maria Kirilenko in the final eight.
Fourth seed, Petra Kvitova, saw off a tough test in Francesca Schiavone. The Czech came from a set behind to win 4-6 7-5 6-1. She will now face sixth seed Serena Williams in the quarter final. The veteran American saw off Yaroslava Shvedova 6-1 2-6 7-5 to progress through.
The men's quarter final draw is far from complete after rain stopped play. Novak Djokovic was able to complete his match and progress into the final eight. The world number one took on fellow Serb, Viktor Troicki, and won 6-3 6-1 6-3. He will face either Richard Gasquet or Florian Mayer, their fourth round match was postponed with Mayer taking the first set 6-3 and having a 2-1 lead in the second.
The only quarter-final we do know about is third seed, Roger Federer, will be taking on Mikhail Youzhny who makes it into the last eight for the first time. Federer needed four sets to see off Belgium's Xavier Malisse, the Swiss took the first set 7-1 on the tie-break and then won the second 6-1. Malisse took the third set 6-4 before Federer ended the game with a 6-3 fourth set victory. Youzhny beat Denis Istomin 6-3 5-7 6-4 6-7 7-5 to go through.
Andy Murray will go into tomorrow with a 7-5 set one victory and a 3-1 second set lead against Croatia's Marin Cilic.
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