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Top seed Swiatek moves to Wimbledon quarterfinals after beating Belinda Bencic

ISTANBUL 

Iga Swiatek defeated Belinda Bencic to move to the quarterfinals on the seventh day of the Wimbledon championships on Sunday

The Polish world No. 1 won the game with sets of 6-7, 7-6 and 6-3 on Center Court.

Jessica Pegula, Elina Svitolina, Marketa Vondrousova and Mirra Andreeva advanced to the next stage after beating their opponents.

The 28-year-old Svitolina qualified for the quarterfinals by edging out two-time major winner Victoria Azarenka 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (11-9).

In men’s singles, Andrey Rublev beat Alexander Bublik to move to the next stage after securing a 3-1 win in three hours and 17 minutes.

Rublev, 25, reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals for the first time in his career.

In addition to them, Jannik Sinner, Grigor Dimitrov and Roman Safiullin moved into the quarterfinals.

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