The Associated Press
LONDON–Five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams won while top-ranked Angelique Kerber lost.
Williams, who last won the title at the All England Club in 2008, advanced to the Wimbledon quarter-finals by beating 19-year-old Ana Konjuh 6-3, 6-2 earlier today.
Williams is playing at the grass-court major for the 20th time in her career, with her Wimbledon debut coming a few months before Konjuh was born.
“Winning never gets old at any stage in your career, ever, ever,” Williams said.
Kerber, who reached the Wimbledon final last year but lost to Serena Williams, was beaten by Garbine Muguruza 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.
With the loss by Kerber, either Simona Halep or Karolina Pliskova will take over as the top-ranked player after the tournament.
Halep also advanced today while Pliskova lost in the second round.
Williams next will face French Open champ Jelena Ostapenko in the quarter-finals.
The 20-year-old Latvian, who won her first tour-level title at Roland Garros last month, beat fourth-seeded Elina Svitolina 6-3, 7-6 (6).
“I think I’ll see what happens when I get out there,” Williams said of Ostapenko.
Ostapenko never before had been past the third round at a major tournament prior to this year’s French Open.
She was the first woman to win her debut tour-level title at a Grand Slam tournament since 1979.
Two-time Grand Slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, Magdalena Rybarikova, CoCo Vandeweghe, and Johanna Konta also advanced to the quarter-finals.
The second Monday at Wimbledon arguably is the busiest day in tennis.
All 16 fourth-round matches at the All England Club are played on the same day–a schedule that will produce all eight male and all eight female quarter-finalists.
The first man to reach the quarter-finals was Marin Cilic.
The seventh-seeded Croat beat Roberto Bautista Agut 6-2, 6-2, 6-2.
Andy Murray, meanwhile, is in the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the 10th-straight year.
The defending champ beat Benoit Paire 7-6 (1), 6-4, 6-4.
The top-ranked Murray, who has won two titles at the All England Club, next will face 24th-seeded American Sam Querrey, who beat Kevin Anderson 5-7, 7-6 (5), 6-3, 6-7 (11), 6-3.
Rafael Nadal was trailing 16th-seeded Gilles Miller of Luxembourg 6-3, 6-4 in their fourth-round match.
Novak Djokovic was up next against Adrian Mannarino.
Editor’s note: Canada’s Milos Raonic dropped the first set of his fourth-round match to 10th-seeded Alexander Zverev, but rebounded to win the second one 7-5.
The match was incomplete as of press time.
