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By Pritha Sarkar
LONDON, July 7 (Reuters) – Even in her wildest dreams, the 11th seed, Angelique Kerber, could not have imagined that at the end of the first week of this year's Wimbledon, she would be the highest ranked player remaining in the first half of the women's draw.
But after six days of destruction involving the seeds of women, and with the disappearance of the world number one Saturday, Simone Halep is favorite to reach the final of its section after a 6-2 6-4 victory against Naomi Osaka of Japan
The victory of the German left it among only five of the first 16 seeds to reach the fourth round.
Players may have thought they were in the Australian backcountry, as no one could be spotted on the Center's 15,000-seat field as the match pitted Sweden against the quarterbacks. World Cup final against Sweden
. panting with great sportsmen like the 1966 world of England The cup winner, Bobby Charlton, and the Spanish golfer Sergio Garcia, for the victory of Rafael Nadal a few minutes earlier, were deserts.
The lack of ambience on the Central Court, however, did not seem to loosen Kerber. She escaped Osaka during the 63 minutes of play.
Despite her unscathed outing of the carnage, Kerber refused to let herself be swept away by the chances of imitating her run to the 2016 final while she was second behind Serena Williams. 19659002] "I have my eyes on my way, on my days, my matches," said the German, who faces the Belinda Bencic on Monday
"You can just see how good it is. ;is near."
SURVIVOR PLISKOVA
The seventh-seeded Czech Karolina Pliskova and the young 13th-seeded Julia Georges of Germany survived the bottom half, while Kerber, the 2017 French champion Jelena Ostapenko and the Fourteenth-seeded Daria Kasatkina round out the five less famous ones. Pliskova is the only 10 seeded survivor o To qualify for the fourth round – a women's record in one of the four majors since tennis became professional in 1968.
Seven-time champion Serena Williams is still in the group of contenders for the title, but it is only 25th The number of giant killers in the draw seems to multiply daily with the champions of the Grand Slam of the caliber of Halep, the defending champion Garbine Muguruza, Caroline Wozniacki and Petra Kvitova was shot this week.
Nadal, the world's number one man, knows only too well how to face a giant killer, having lost to players ranked 100 or less in four of his previous five appearances. a simple explanation on this year's series of shocks.
"This is the surface. (This) is a difficult surface because we do not play very often on this surface.All matches are dangerous.The match is decided in a few balls (which makes ) the big difference between clay and here, "said Nadal.
"On clay, you have time – here you do not have the time," added the double champion who has never passed the fourth round since he's finished Novak Djokovic's second in 2011. (Report of Pritha Sarkar, edited by Clare Lovell and Ken Ferris) [19659002] (This story was not edited by Devdiscourse staff and is generated automatically from within. a syndicated flow.)
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