Bouchard storms into quarterfinals
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EUGENIE Bouchard became the first Canadian to reach the quarterfinals of Wimbledon with a 7-6 (5), 7-5 win over Serena Williams’s conqueror Alize Cornet yesterday.
Over the years, fellow Canadians Carling Bassett-Seguso, Patricia Hy-Boulais and Daniel Nestor all made the second week of the grasscourt major but none of them managed to go as far as Bouchard.
The 13th seed looked like she would be stretched into a third set when she trailed 2-4 in the second on Centre Court, but the woman tipped as a future grand slam champion displayed her battling instincts as she fought back to level at 5-5.
A backhand long on match point sealed the 20-year-old a quarterfinal date with either French Open winner Maria Sharapova or German ninth seed Angelique Kerber.
Earlier, Barbora Zahlavova Strycova claimed another famous scalp as the unseeded Czech moved into the quarter-finals with a 6-2, 7-5 victory against former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki.
Zahlavova Strycova, the world No. 43, had enjoyed the best win of her career in the previous round when she defeated Chinese second seed Li Na and she added Danish 16th seed Wozniacki to her list of upsets, converting a sixth match point to move into the last eight at a grand slam for the first time at the 32nd attempt.
The 28-year-old, who served a six-month ban for doping last year, will play compatriot Petra Kvitova for a place in the semifinals. Sixth seed Kvitova, who won the Wimbledon title in 2011, routed world No. 61 Peng Shuai of China 6-3, 6-2 in just one hour on Court Two.
Three of the four quarterfinalists in the bottom half of the draw are Czech after 23rd seed Lucie Safarova ended the fairytale run of compatriot Tereza Smitkova with a 6-0, 6-2 victory.
Sabine Lisicki, last year’s Wimbledon beaten finalist, finally downed former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic yesterday to give herself a place in the last 16.
In a third-round match called off for bad light on Saturday, and then interrupted by rain early yesterday, the German 19th seed eventually beat the Serbian 11th seed 6-4, 3-6, 6-1.
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