Roger Federer will continue his bid for a 21st Grand Slam title as he faces world number seven Kei Nishikori in the quarter finals of Wimbledon. Despite being the eleventh time the two men have faced each other, they have only met once at a Grand Slam. In 2017 Federer got the better of his…
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Nishikori to bid for second Wimbledon quarter final against Kukushkin
Kei Nishikori will today look to become the second Japanese player to make multiple Wimbledon quarter finals as he takes on fourth round debutant Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan. Kimiko Date is currently the only Japanese player to have made more than one Wimbledon quarter, after she made the quarter finals of both the 1995 and…
Queens champion Lopez to face 10th seed Khachanov
Queens Singles and Doubles champion Feliciano Lopez will be the second match on Court One today, in a tough match up with Russia’s Karen Khachanov. 37 year old Lopez has three times been a quarter finalist at Wimbledon, though his most recent came eight years ago. He will hope that the sensational week he had…