The favorites all advanced Monday in the women’s draw at Wimbledon in fourth round play.

In the big match of the day, Ons Jabeur hammered 2-time finalist Petra Kvitova 6-0, 6-3 giving the Czech her worst loss on grass.

“When I won the first set I said to myself the match starts again because against Petra, you can win the first set 6-0, and then lose the second 6-0 after,” Jabeur said. …

The match of the day in the men’s draw didn’t get finish as Novak Djokovic leads Hubert Hurkacz 7-6(6), 7-6(6) in their fourth round Wimbledon encounter.

Hurkacz led 6-3 in the first set breaker but failed to close it out as Djokovic once again proved too tough.

The second set was nearly a replay. Djokovic would get and miss break chances but in the breaker he again came from a mini-break down. …

It was a wild Sunday at Wimbledon in the women’s draw. Top seed Iga Swiatek survived two second set match points to beat former gold medalist Belinda Bencic 6-7(4-7), 7-6(7-2), 6-3.

In a tight first set, Swiatek was the better player but failed to convert on six different break point chances.

Swiatek finally broke through to start the second but her lead didn’t last long. Bencic would level and then held …

Defending champion Elena Rybakina destroyed the last British title hope Katie Boulter 6-1, 6-1 in 57 minutes at Wimbledon Saturday evening.

Rybakina hit seven aces and lost just 11 points on serve under the roof, as Boulter had no answers for the world No. 3.

Rybakina has now won her last 10 matches at Wimbledon, and she’ll now meet French Open semifinalist Beatriz Haddad Maia. The Brazilian lefty got past …

Carlos Alcaraz passed his first big test Saturday at Wimbledon overcoming a 4-1 deficit in the fourth to beat Nicolas Jarry 6-3, 6-7(6), 6-3, 7-5.

The 6-foot-6 Jarry, who lost in three to Alcaraz in South American earlier in the year, bombed 15 aces but couldn’t capitalize on a 4-1 lead in the fourth.

“It was really, really tough,” Alcaraz said after. “Nico is a really great player. He’s playing really well. …

Stefanos Tsitsipas put an end to Andy Murray’s 2023 Wimbledon hopes besting the Brit in five sets 7-6(7-3), 6-7(2-7), 4-6, 7-6(7-3), 6-4.

The resumed outdoors on Centre Court with Murray up two sets to one. But Tsitsipas played the better breaker in the fourth and then grabbed the only break he got in the match at 1-all and then served his way to his best Wimbledon result.

Tsitsipas is now 2-0 against …

After an easy opener, Iga Swiatek got her first test of the 2023 Wimbledon championships holding off Petra Martic 6-2, 7-5 to advance to the final 16.

Swiatek, who lost in this round a year ago, stormed ahead of the Croat before things got interesting in the second. Swiatek would break at love for 4-3 but when serving out the that match at 5-4 she got broken.

Martic then blew a 5-all, …

The big match of the day is still in limbo as Andy Murray will head to bed tonight in London with a two sets to one lead 6-7(3), 7-6(2), 6-4 over Stefanos Tsitsipas in the Wimbledon second round.

Tsitsipas was the better ball striker in the opener taking in a breaker, but Murray got back on top in the second playing a perfect breaker of his own to level. Murray got …

Elena Rybakina survived yet another stern test in her Wimbledon title defense on Thursday. The 2022 champion won his 9th straight at the Club topping Alize Cornet 6-2, 7-6(7-2).

Cornet, who has pulled off several big upsets at Wimbledon before including knocking out Iga Swiatek a year ago, made a match of it in the second until she injured her right hip with Rybakina serving 5-all. Cornet would scream in pain, …

Novak Djokovic continued his streaks and his march to a 24th Slam title easing past Australia’s Jordan Thompson 6-3, 7-6(7-4), 7-5.

Djokovic lost eight points on serve, never was broken while breaking twice.

“Congratulations to him, he played a great match,” Djokovic said on court. “I like to be tested but I don’t really know whether I wanted to meet him this early in the tournament.

“I know I’ve said this before but …

Top seed Iga Swiatek rolled in second round action cruising past Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-2, 6-0 winning the last eight games on the match.

Swiatek, who lost just four points on serve, has now won her last nine in Grand Slam play and has lost just six games in two matches.

“I was able to kind of do everything tactically as I wanted to, as my coach wanted me to do, …

Thanks to the roofs, otherwise there would have been no completed matches at Wimbledon on Tuesday.

The tournament saw the skies opened up just past and noon and it never stopped as outer court play was called in the early evening. Players on covered courts got their matches in, though.

With Roger Federer looking on from the Royal Box, two-time champion Andy Murray made his 15th Wimbledon start a good one blowing …

While world No. 1 Iga Swiatek had her way in her Wimbledon opener easing past Lin Zhu 6-1, 6-3, the focus on Monday was the Americans.

Venus Williams at 43 returned to Centre Court to take on former No. 3 Elina Svitolina. The 5-time champion jumped out ahead a break and led serving 2-0 when Williams slipped at the net injuring her right knee. She screamed in agony but after treatment …

Novak Djokovic opened his Wimbledon title defense with a straight-forward 6-3, 6-3, 7-6(4) win over Argentina’s Pedro Cachin.

“Each year I come back here, I reconnect with the young boy who dreamed of winning the biggest and most important tennis tournament in the world,” Djokovic said on court. “I try not to take any minute on this court for granted.

“Pedro served especially well in the third set. For me, the opening …

Nick Kyrgios dropped the first big blow of the Wimbledon championships pulling out of the event just 13 hours before first ball.

The 2022 finalist has only played one event all year and earlier in the day stated he was good to go.

“I’ve been hitting with some really good players this week and my body is feeling okay,” Kyrgios said.

Then, hours later, he posted on Instagram:

“Hey everyone, I’m really sad to …