Top seed Angelique Kerber and ninth seed Agnieszka Radwanska scraped into the Wimbledon last-16 on Saturday, while Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gael Monfils bowed out of the men’s tournament after five-set defeats.
In later matches, three-time champion Novak Djokovic ended the resurgent Ernests Gulbis’ run, with a 6-4, 6-1, 7-6(2) win in their third-round match. This is the tenth time Djokovic has made the fourth round here.
For a place in the quarterfinals, the second seed will play Adrian Mannarino, who rallied from two sets to one down to take down No. 15 seed Gael Monfils.
Fifth seed Caroline Wozniacki rallied too from the brink of defeat — Annet Kontaveit served for the match in the second set — to prevail 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-2.
Kerber looked mightily relieved after saving her World No. 1 status in a tense 4-6, 7-6(2), 6-4 win over the 70th ranked Shelby Rogers.
Kerber was a break down in the second set but did just enough to claw her way into the fourth round where she will face Garbine Muguruza, after World No. 15 raced into the fourth round with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Sorana Cirstea.
Svetlana Kuznetsova, Coco Vandeweghe, Magdalena Rybarikova and qualifier Petra Martic also won their third round matches.
The deft Radwanska, the 2012 runner-up to Serena Williams, came back from a set down to beat 19th seed Timea Bacsinszky 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, and now faces eighth seed Kuznetsova who cruised through 6-4, 6-0 over qualifier Polona Hercog.
Vandeweghe, considered by some as a dark horse for the title, beat Alison Riske 6-2, 6-4.
Croatia’s Martic is the last qualifier still going after beating Zarina Diyas 7-6(6), 6-1.
She next faces Rybarikova, who eased into the last 16 of a Major for the first time with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Lesia Tsurenko.
Sam Querrey wrapped up the one game he needed to beat Tsonga in a match suspended on Friday due to bad light, while Grigor Dimitrov made it through after opponent Dudi Sela pulled out after going two sets down, a right thigh injury that required treatment during the match.
The former match was called off at 6-2, 3-6, 7-6(5), 1-6, 6-5, with the 12th seed not wanting to serve as the light faded, though Querrey was happy to receive. They returned to finish the contest on Saturday but it was all over in a matter of minutes as the 24th seed broke serve.
“My opponent was good today. He did three, four good shots, and yeah, that’s it,” said Tsonga.
Sixth seed Milos Raonic, last year’s beaten finalist, downed Albert Ramos-Vinolas 7-6(3), 6-4, 7-5 to book a fouth round spot while 11th seed Tomas Berdych defeated David Ferrer 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.
In doubles action, 13th seeds Sania Mirza and Kirsten Flipkens overcame a mid-match slump to make the third round with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 win over Naomi Broady and Heather Watson.
Roland Garros champions Rohan Bopanna and Gabriella Dabrowski advanced to the third round of the mixed doubles beating Fabrice Martin and Raluca Olaru (Rou) 7-6(2), 7-5. The 10th seeds had received a bye into the second round. However, Leander Paes and Yifan Xu, and Zhaoxuan Yang and Divij Sharan lost their first-round matches late on Friday.
In the junior tournament which began on Saturday, 15th seed Zeel Desai won her first-round match against Naho Sato 6-1, 6-1.
