“It’s kind of a gamble really with him because he hits all angles,” said Djokovic of his Polish opponent. “He’s so precise. He hits over 130 miles [k/ph] basically every serve.
It’s kind of good luck and choose a side type of thing.
“It’s tennis. That’s the unpredictability of tennis in a way. You have to be ready for both scenarios. When I saw the matches that were played before me yesterday with [Andrey] Rublev-[Alexander]Bublik, and Swiatek-Bencic, I thought those matches could be long matches. But you don’t know that. You can only predict. It’s never a guarantee.”
Eubanks had threatened to be a journeyman professional until about eight days ago. His red-hot run has defied logic, his wins even beyond his own comprehension and now, at 27, he becomes just the 13th man in the Open era to reach the quarter-finals on his Wimbledon debut.Not bad for a player that failed to qualify for Wimbledon four times, including last year and as recently as 2017 was playing for Georgia Tech university.
World number one Carlos Alcaraz passed another test to reach the quarter-finals at Wimbledon for the first time. “I knew it was going to be really tough, Matteo is a great player, he made the final here on grass,” said Alcaraz.
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