by Jannik Sinner went to the Wimbledon quarter-finals on Monday after a tearful Grigor Dimitrov was injured while she survived complete control over the match while Novak Djokovic survived.
Sinner number 1 and seven-time champion Djokovic stay on course to achieve a delicious semi-final collision, but the game of the top seed on the center court was overshadowed by Dimitrov’s heart pain.
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The Italian stared at the starting door with 3: 6, 5: 7, 2: 2, before the Bulgarian 19th seed drove up his right chest muscle and could not continue.
Sinner hurried to his help, but his 34-year-old opponent could hardly wave to recognize the warm ovation of the crowd.
“To be honest, I don’t know what to say,” said Sünder. “He is an incredible player, I think we all saw it today.
“He has made so unhappy in recent years. An incredible player, also a good friend of mine. We also get along very well.
“To be honest, he would deserve to see him in this position in this position if there was a chance that he could play the next round.”
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The Dimitrov, who is prone to injury, was now forced to retire in each of his last five Grand Slam appearances.
Sinner himself suffered an evil fall in the opening game of the collision for the fourth round and seemed uncomfortable in his right elbow.
The three-time Grand Slam champion was in the first three rounds in the All England Club in royal form and had only 17 games.
Sinner, who faces Seed Ben Shelton in the quarter-finals on American 10, said he would carry out an MRI scan on Tuesday to assess the extent of the damage of his elbow.
Shelton defeated Italy’s Lorenzo Songo in four sets.
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– Federer ‘curse’ – –
Previously, the sixth seed Djokovic had a nightmare start in his match against the 11th Seed Alex de Minaur against the Australian seed, but fought back to win at 1-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Fresh from his 100th victory in Wimbledon on Saturday and he was the third player who achieved this feat after Martina Navratilova and Roger Federer achieved this performance. Djokovic reached his 16th quarter -finals at the tournament.
The 38-year-old Serb aims at a record-25. To win the major title, break a tie with the long-gramme Margaret Court and reach Federer’s record over eight men’s crowns in the All England Club.
That would make him the oldest Grand Slam singles champion in the open era.
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Djokovics 101st victory in Wimbledon came under the view of the Swiss Great, who was sitting in the first row of the Royal Box next to his wife Mirka.
“It is probably the first time that he was watching me and I won the match,” he said. “The last couple that I lost, so good to break the curse.
“No, it’s great, obviously great, Roger, a huge champion and someone I admired and very respected.
“We shared the stage for so many years and it’s great to have it back.”
In the last eight o’clock is Djokovic Italian 22.
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In the draw of women, Iga Swiatek was a calm progress with a 6-4, 6-1 Rout of the Danish 23rd seeds Clara Tauson.
Swiatek, fourth in the ranking, is a five-time Grand Slam winner, but has never done a Wimbledon semi-final.
The 24-year-old is in a strong position in the second week of the tournament after leaving so many top seeds.
“To be honest, it’s pretty amazing. It is the first time that I really enjoyed London, Sorry people,” said Swiatek and referred to her previous Wimbledon problems.
“We are tennis players, so we feel good at the square when we feel good on the pitch.”
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The Polish player is the next against the Russian 19th seed Liudmila Samsonova, who defeated the Spain’s Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 7-5, 7-5.
The 18-year-old Russian Seventh Seed Mirra Andreeva reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the first time with a 6-2, 6: 3 victory against the 10th seed, Emma Navarro, who ended on Saturday as a champion of Barbora Krejcikova.
Andreeva next plays the Swiss Olympic Master Belinda Bencic, who defeated the Russian world number 17 Ekaterina Alexandrova 7-6 (7/4), 6-4.
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