Serena Williams to play Petra Kvitova in Wimbledon quarters
Serena Williams and Petra Kvitova were both made to work hard in
their fourth-round matches on Monday before booking a Wimbledon
quarter-final showdown.
Four-time champion Williams edged a 54-minute third set to win 6-1 2-6 7-5 against world number 65 Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan.
Defending champion Petra Kvitova came from a set down to beat Italy's Francesca Schiavone 4-6 7-5 6-1.
Elsewhere, Austrian Tamira Paszek beat Roberta Vinci 6-2 6-2.
Paszek, who put out former world number one Caroline Wozniacki, will next play either second seed Victoria Azarenka or Serbia's Ana Avanovic for a place in the semi-finals.
Sixth seed Williams, 30, raced through the first set in 29 minutes against Shvedova, who recorded the first-ever " golden set " at a Grand Slam on Saturday.
But Shvedova answered with the second set in 34 minutes to set up a tantalising decider, which Williams edged to progress to a 12th Wimbledon quarter-final.
The 22-year-old Kvitova wasted 10 break points in the first set as 2010 French Open champion Schiavone took the lead despite hitting only two winners.
Kvitova lost her serve again early in the second set in windy conditions on Court Three, but finally broke back for 2-2.
She clinched the set under a light rain and raced to a 5-0 lead before closing out the match in the third despite Schiavone's protests that play should have been stopped.
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source: BBC sportnews
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