Tennis, Wimbledon: Gauff exits in fourth round; Alcaraz, Sinner on course for semi-final clash
Coco Gauff’s 6-4, 6-3 fourth round defeat to Emma Navarro means that only two of the top 10 women’s seeds are left in the tournament.
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World No 2 Coco Gauff was sent crashing out of Wimbledon by American compatriot Emma Navarro on Sunday as Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner were firmly locked on an All England Club semi-final collision course.
Gauff’s 6-4, 6-3 fourth round defeat means that only two of the top 10 women’s seeds are left in the tournament.
Elsewhere, unheralded Lulu Sun became the first New Zealand woman to reach the last-eight at Wimbledon, while Madison Keys quit her last-16 clash in floods of tears.
Navarro, ranked 19th, reached the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time with her defeat of US Open champion Gauff.
Gauff, who made the semi-finals at the Australian Open and French Open this year, has still to get past the last 16 at Wimbledon, the tournament where she made her breakthrough as a 15-year-old in 2019.
Her shock defeat followed the unexpected exit of world No 1 Iga Swiatek in the third round on Saturday.
“I think I played really aggressively. Coco’s an amazing player and I have a ton of respect for her,” said Navarro.
Only fourth-ranked 2022 champion Elena Rybakina and Jasmine Paolini, the world No 7, remain from the top 10 women.
Paolini will be Navarro’s quarter-final opponent.
World No 3 Alcaraz defeated French 16th seed Ugo Humbert 6-3,...
