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London – Serena Williams warned against Wimbledon . She is far from being the best of her even though she has qualified for the quarterfinals without losing a set.
Williams pursues an eighth Wimbledon crown and the American star showed why she is favorite with a 6-2 and 6-2 demolition of Evgeniya Rodina in the fourth round on Monday.
In her 13th quarter-final at Wimbledon, Serena faces Tuesday the world number 52 of the Italian team, Camila Giorgi.
The way to the title seems wide open for the 36-year-old athlete after every women's seed has crushed before the last eight for the first time in the history of Wimbledon.
Garbine Muguruza, Maria Sharapova, Simona Halep, Petra Kvitova, Venus Williams, Caroline Wozniacki and Sloane Stephens were all eliminated.
The carnage in the lead leaves the 11th seed Angelique Kerber – beaten by Serena in the Wimbledon final 2016 – as the best remaining player.
Williams did not complain about the high number of shock results, but she could not resist Jab at the Wimbledon organizers who ranked her only 25th despite her remarkable record.
"I've faced a thousand and three seeds in my life, so that's fine," she says.
"Things happen: on both sides, men and women, there has been a lot of upheaval."
"I do not think it happened to that extreme. But also I have never been ranked where I am when that happened before, so usually I am one of those few seeds that are still struggling and still in the tournament.
"Now that I am not, it has happened!"
It's not as if Serena needed a lot of encouragement to dominate at Wimbledon, where she has already reached nine finals.
After getting rid of the rust following his long layoff after the birth of his daughter Olympia in September, she rounds off the form well for the tournament business's end.
For the remaining seven women on the grid, the 23-time Grand Slam champion, who missed Wimbledon last year but won the title in her previous two visits, insists that # There is still room for improvement.
"There is a lot to improve, this is only my fourth return tournament," said Williams, who has won his previous three meetings with Giorgi.
"For me, there is so much further that I want to go back to where I was, and I hope to go beyond that."
"I'm always looking for perfection.There are a lot of things that I do not know if you can say it, but I really need to work on it.I hope I can make it happen. "
Among the other quarter-finals, only Kerber and former Roland-Garros champion Jelena Ostapenko won the Grand Slam.
Kerber, winner of the Australian and American Open in 2016 , argues on 14 Daria Kasatkina
"I do not feel the pressure because I'm not looking for the seed or what's left or not," said Kerber about his improved title chances
Try here to do my best, that's all I'm focusing on. "
Ostapenko, 12th seeded Latvian, plays Dominika Cibulkova, former finalist of the Open D & # 39; Australia
"At Roland Garros, I had all that pressure, now it's gone," Ostapenko said, ncien Wimbledon champion.
"I'm just not scared to miss, I'm just going for the shots."
Kiki Bertens cared for the last of the top 10 with a 6-3, 7-6 win (7 / 1) on the seventh-seeded Czech Karolina Pliskova.
Bertens, who was planning to retire last year after losing her enthusiasm for the sport, is the first Dutchman to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals since Michaella Krajicek in 2007.
The player 26-year-old Julia Goerges, who beat Donna Vekic to seal her first quarter-final quarter-final Grand Slam in the 42nd attempt. "19659002" It's for me something very special, "Goerges said. 19659002 "It seems pretty strange when you saw my record of the last five years here, I did not expect it, honestly."
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