A deluge of double faults dictated early terms before Iga Swiatek found her grasscourt wings to fly into the Wimbledon quarter-finals with a soaring 6-4 6-1 victory over an out-of-sorts Danish 23rd seed Clara Tauson on Monday.

Tauson slammed down a first serve, and Elena Rybakina could only drill it into the net. Two games later, Tauson delivered another upset in a tournament full of them, knocking out one of two former champions left in the draw 7-6 (6),

Former champion Elena Rybakina became the latest star to suffer a shock Wimbledon exit losing to Denmark’s Clara Tauson 7-6 (8/6), 6-3 on Saturday. Rybakina, the Kazakh 11th seed, won her maiden Grand Slam title at Wimbledon in 2022 and had reached the semi-finals last year.