We’re only through the fifth day and only two of the Top 10 seeds are still alive in the draw, as Americans Venus Williams and Madison Keys lost their third-round matches at Wimbledon, the first in the Open Era that six of the Top 8 women’s seeds hadn’t reached the third round.
The tenth-seeded Keys was defeated by Russian world No.120 Evgeniya Rodina 7-5 5-7 6-4 in an encounter characterized by huge shifts in momentum — after going 5-2 up, Keys lost nine consecutive games, then produced a superb fightback by winning eight games in a row and eventually Rodina won the scrappy third set to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time.