Top seed Angelique Kerber was dumped out of the last-16 of Wimbledon by Garbine Muguruza on Monday, as the world number one’s woeful run against top-ranked opposition continued.
Muguruza’s 4-6 6-4 6-4 victory marked the ninth consecutive time Germany’s Kerber has failed to beat a top-20 opponent. She last achieved that feat in 2016.
Both Kerber and Muguruza have been runners-up at Wimbledon to Serena Williams, Kerber last year and Muguruza the year before that.
Venus Williams, the 10th seed, beat Croatia’s Ana Konjuh 6-3 6-2 to advance to the quarter-finals. Williams last won the singles final in 2008.
Svetlana Kuznetsova prevailed to beat Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska 6-2 6-4 to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the first time in 10 years.
The Russian, seeded seventh, has found Radwanska an agreeable opponent over the past decade and did so again to beat her for the 14th time in 18 matches.
French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko let seven match points go begging before finally overcoming fourth seed Elina Svitolina 6-3 7-6(6) to reach the quarter-finals.
The 20-year-old Latvian, who is now only three wins away from completing what would be astonishing grand slam double, had looked to be cruising when she led 5-2 in the second set.
She will now play Williams in the quarter-finals.
Slovakia’s Magdalena Rybarikova sprung a surprise as she beat Croatia’s Petra Martic 6-4 2-6 6-3 where she will face either American Coco Vandeweghe or Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki.
Results from the Wimbledon Women’s Singles Round 4 matches on Monday
10-Venus Williams (U.S.) beat 27-Ana Konjuh (Croatia) 6-3 6-2
14-Garbine Muguruza Blanco (Spain) beat 1-Angelique Kerber (Germany) 4-6 6-4 6-4
Magdalena Rybarikova (Slovakia) beat Petra Martic (Croatia) 6-4 2-6 6-3
13-Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia) beat 4-Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) 6-3 7-6(6)
7-Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) beat 9-Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 6-2 6-4
