Alcaraz's Wimbledon win streak reaches 18; Sabalenka gets to another Slam quarterfinal

The Associated Press

· Posted: Jul 06, 2025 2:09 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

Carlos Alcaraz's latest up-and-down Wimbledon show began with a dropped set. Later Sunday, helium was successful information of getting breached to autumn further down successful the third. And then, arsenic helium truthful often does, Alcaraz seized the moment, produced immoderate magic and moved person to a 3rd consecutive rubric astatine the All England Club.

Alcaraz stretched his winning streak successful the grass-court Grand Slam tourney to 18 matches — and his existent unbeaten tally crossed each events to 22 — by coming backmost to bushed No. 14 effect Andrey Rublev 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 astatine Centre Court to instrumentality to the quarterfinals.

In this fortnight's archetypal matchup betwixt 2 men ranked successful the apical 20, No. 2 Alcaraz brought retired his champion portion down 3-2 successful the 3rd set. First, helium needed to fend disconnected a interruption accidental for Rublev, doing truthful with a forehand passing winner.

After yet holding to 3-all, Alcaraz earned his ain interruption accidental and didn't fto Rublev escape. On an eight-stroke exchange, Alcaraz sprinted from 1 country of the tribunal to the different and, with a stomp of his close ft and a spot of a slide, helium flicked a cross-court forehand winner.

Oh, did helium relish that one. Alcaraz dispersed his arms wide, pointed to his close receptor and basked successful the crowd's large adulation, the sound bouncing disconnected the underside of the stadium's closed roof.

Rublev sat successful his sideline chair, looked up astatine his impermanent container and made a sarcastic "OK" manus signal. Just 10 minutes later, that acceptable beryllium to Alcaraz, who volition look 2022 semifinalist Cam Norrie — the past British subordinate successful singles — connected Tuesday for a berth successful the last four.

The 61st-ranked Norrie, who played assemblage tennis astatine TCU successful Fort Worth, Texas, precocious with a 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (7), 6-7 (5), 6-3 triumph implicit qualifier Nicolas Jarry, who deed 46 aces. Norrie had a accidental to adjacent things retired overmuch earlier than helium did but failed to person a lucifer constituent portion up 6-5 successful the third-set tiebreaker.

The different men's quarterfinal Tuesday volition beryllium No. 5 Taylor Fritz vs. No. 17 Karen Khachanov. Fritz, past year's U.S. Open runner-up, had a abbreviated time due to the fact that his opponent, Jordan Thompson, discontinue aft astir 40 minutes with backmost and limb injuries that he'd been dealing with passim the tournament.

Alcaraz is conscionable 22 and already owns 5 Grand Slam trophies, the latest arriving successful June astatine the French Open. He hasn't mislaid a lucifer anyplace since April 20 against Holger Rune successful the last astatine Barcelona.

There person been lapses, of course, including erstwhile Alcaraz fell down by 2 sets against No. 1 Jannik Sinner successful the last astatine Roland-Garros. Or erstwhile the Spaniard mislaid 4 points successful a enactment aft going up 5-3 successful the opening tiebreaker against Rublev.

He hasn't been arsenic close-to-perfect arsenic others implicit the past week: Sinner, No. 10 Ben Shelton and No. 22 Flavio Cobolli haven't dropped a acceptable heading into their fourth-round contests.

So, sure, Alcaraz has ceded 5 sets already, but each that matters is that helium hasn't mislaid a match.

What other happened astatine Wimbledon connected Sunday?

No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka reached the quarterfinals astatine her 11th consecutive Grand Slam tournament, defeating No. 24 Elise Mertens 6-4, 7-6 (4), and volition play unseeded Laura Siegemund, the 37-year-old German who followed up her elimination of Australian Open champ Madison Keys by beating fortunate loser Solana Sierra 6-3, 6-2.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova overcame a missed telephone precocious successful the archetypal acceptable — erstwhile the physics strategy accidentally was disconnected — and bushed Sonay Kartal 7-6 (3), 6-4 to instrumentality to the grass-court major's quarterfinals for the archetypal clip successful 9 years.

Pavlyuchenkova's hostile Tuesday volition beryllium Amanda Anisimova, the 13th-seeded American who got past No. 30 Linda Noskova 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 astatine night.

Who plays astatine the All England Club connected Monday?

Monday's fourth-rounders see Novak Djokovic against No. 11 Alex de Minaur astatine 1:30 p.m. section clip (8:30 a.m. ET). They were expected to look each different successful past year's quarterfinals astatine Wimbledon, but de Minaur was forced to retreat with a hep injury. That'll beryllium followed astatine Centre Court by Mirra Andreeva vs. Emma Navarro, and past Sinner vs. No. 19 Grigor Dimitrov.