Women’s World No. 1 Sabalenka fought back from the brink of a shock Wimbledon exit to reach the semi-finals with a gutsy 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 win against Germany’s Laura Siegemund on Tuesday. 

Siegemund starts strong

Sabalenka twice trailed by a break in the final set to her 104th-ranked opponent on Centre Court and was two games away from crashing out before staging a dramatic revival to win in two hours and 54 minutes of unrelenting tension. The 27-year-old top seed is through to the All England Club semi-finals for the third time.

Meanwhile, Sinner’s progress to the quarter-finals came down to luck more than anything else as his Bulgarian opponent Dimitrov succumbed to an injury after clinching the first two sets, to put the Italian World No. 1 on the cusp of a shock ouster.