Alcaraz

Coco Gauff? Gone. Jessica Pegula? Out. Jasmine Paolini, Qinwen Zheng, Madison Keys? Yet more top seeds who fell in the first week at Wimbledon. And it wasn’t much different on the men’s side: Half of the top eight seeds went down to defeat. It’s been almost 25 years since so many seeded players lost in the first three rounds of a major.

Onwards now to the quarterfinals, and the championship weekend ahead. Will more underdogs prevail? Or will the remaining seeded players exert their dominance?