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Today at Wimbledon: Everything you need to know about day seven
Muller knocks out Nadal in epic
Konta has the mettle to be cast in bronze
Murray hip to the beating of Paire
Muller knocks out Nadal in epic
Gilles Muller beats Rafael Nadal 6-3 6-4 3-6 4-6 15-13
Rafael Nadal got the first eye-watering sign that this would be no normal day while he waited in the corridors of Court One. As is his routine, Nadal was squatting down and preparing to leap into the air in an effort to awaken his muscles but he had not reckoned for the beam directly above his head and duly smashed straight into it.
He did quickly see the funny side of his misfortunate but it was subsequently tempting to wonder if it then took fully two sets for the full effects of his mishap to wear off. Nadal stood repeatedly on the brink here against Gilles Muller, a player who had last beaten him when he was still a teenager in 2005, before ultimately succumbing in a five set epic 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 13-15.
It is an easy cliché to talk of a match having everything but, amid a near five-hour contrast in styles that seesawed back and forth before culminating in the shock of this year’s championship, it was hard to think of a single missing ingredient.
Konta has the mettle to be cast in bronze
Johanna Konta defeats Caroline Garcia 7-6, 4-6, 6-4
There is an implacable calm about Johanna Konta. She likens herself to Jason Bourne, in honour of her three passports – British, Australian and Hungarian – but she also shares the rogue agent’s skill for poker-faced concealment of an explosiveness beneath. So it proved in her tense three-set victory over France’s Caroline Garcia, which sealed her status as Britain’s first female quarter-finalist for 33 years. When the moment of reckoning came, she did not blink.
Out came the comparisons with Jo Durie, who accomplished the same feat in 1984. But Konta has an eye on a far more precious slice of history, conscious that she is playing well enough to see a bronze bust of herself mounted besides the Centre Court entrance, alongside those of Ann Jones and Virginia Wade, as only the third British ladies’ champion of the past half-century.
Wade, the last Briton to hold the Venus Rosewater Dish aloft in 1977, claims that she has both the game and the psychological fortitude to seal the title. Garcia, for one, felt there was little question Konta had the mettle required. “She can definitely handle the pressure,” she said. “She has done very well in the other Grand Slams, so I’m not surprised. She is very aggressive and it is working out on grass.” Just three more wins, then, to rekindle those shades of 1977. On this evidence, it would a brave soul who bet against her.
Murray hip to the beating of Paire
Andy Murray defeats Benoit Paire 7-6, 6-4, 6-4
Andy Murray beat to fight his way into the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the 10th straight year - an astonishing record at the world’s most prestigious tournament. Murray has maintained a superb standard of accuracy since beginning his title defence a week ago, and the scorekeepers found him guilty of only eight unforced errors – a phenomenally low total for a three-set match.
But is he in Wimbledon-winning shape? It seems doubtful. This was another creaky performance, in physical terms. The limp that has afflicted Murray all tournament is only growing more extreme with each round, and it is hard to see how he can compete with the very best players unless he finds a solution to his chronic hip injury.
Paire has one of the least reliable forehands on the men’s tour, hinging at the waist like a man swinging a kettlebell. You certainly wouldn’t coach the shot the way he plays it, and it felt appropriate that the match should end on a forehand unforced error from Paire. It was the 18th such error of the match, and Paire’s 44th in all.
Asked if he would have taken this position two weeks ago, when he was struggling to get on the practice court because of his hip, Murray replied “Yes, for sure. I was a little bit concerned, but I’ve managed it well, I’ve played some good stuff. Today was the best I’d played so far in the tournament and I’ll try to keep it going.”
Baker of the day
Johanna Konta arrived at Wimbledon with a batch of homemade muffins for her team, having shared her chocolate chip creations on Sunday.
Mary Berry eat your heart out.
Name of the day
As the French Open champion and now a quarter-finalist at Wimbledon, you would expect most people to know Jelena Ostapenko’s name.
But apparently we have all been getting it wrong. Rather than Jelena, the name on her passport, the Latvian wishes to be known as Alona and slowly that message is making its way out.
“Today when we were warming up, the chair umpire didn't say ‘Jelena,’ she said ‘Alona’,” Ostapenko said. “That was, like, surprise about that. People were cheering for me and saying Alona today, so that was nice.”
Knights of the day
Britain's two greatest rowers, Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Matthew Pinsent were in the Royal Box, back in tandem just like the good old days in Barcelona and Atlanta.
Sadly James Cracknell and Tim Foster were absent, ruling out a Sydney quad reunion in SW19.
Number of the day
37 - Venus Williams is into the Wimbledon quarter-finals at the age of 37, the oldest woman since Martina Navratilova 23 years ago.
And here they are together, pictured in 2000.
