Ajla Tomljanovic came from a set down to beat Alize Cornet and reach her second straight Wimbledon quarter-final.
The Australian won 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 on No. 2 Court to set up a meeting with Elena Rybakina, and was in tears after a grueling match that lasted 2 hours, 35 minutes.
“I didn’t really think I could do it,” said Tomljanovic, who lost to eventual champion Ash Barty in last year’s quarter-finals. “I can’t believe a year later I’m in the same position.”
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The 32-year-old Cornet ended No. 1 Iga Swiatek’s 37-match winning streak in the previous round. The French veteran was playing in her 62nd straight grand slam tournament — equalling the WTA record held by Ai Sugiyama — and 65th overall, but only reached her first major quarter-final at the Australian Open this year.
Tomljanovic will play Elena Rybakina next, who won comfortably against Petra Martic, 7-5, 6-3.
The 17th-seed broke in the final game of the first set and then again for a 4-2 lead in the second. She finished with 26 winners to 13 for her opponent.
Rybakina reached the French Open quarter-finals last year, when she made the fourth round at Wimbledon in her first appearance at the All England Club.
Amanda Anisimova ended Harmony Tan’s surprising run and reached the quarter-finals at the All England Club for the first time, following her upset victory over Coco Gauff by beating Tan 6-2, 6-3 on No. 1 Court.
She will next face 2019 Wimbledon champion Simona Halep, who is the only former Grand Slam champion left in this year’s women’s draw.
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It’s Anisimova’s first grand slam quarter-final since the semis at the French Open in 2019, when she also beat Tan along the way, while Halep beat fourth-seeded Paula Badosa 6-1, 6-2 on Centre Court to return to the Wimbledon quarter-finals and extend her winning streak at the All England Club to 11 matches.
The 16th-seed won the title in 2019 but missed last year’s edition with an injury, while the 2020 tournament was cancelled because of the pandemic.
This was, however, Halep’s first win over a top-five ranked player on grass.
The former No. 1, who also won the French Open in 2018, has yet to drop a set in this year’s tournament and consistently got the better of Badosa in the baseline rallies. She finished with only nine unforced errors and saved the only break point she faced.
Badosa’s loss means No. 3 Ons Jabeur is the only top 10 seed left in the women’s tournament.