Highlights of the seventh day at the Wimbledon tennis championships on Saturday (times GMT):1641 SABALENKA BATTLES PAST MERTENSTop seed Aryna Sabalenka had to fight to beat Belgium’s tricky 24th seed Elise Mertens 6-3 7-6(4) in just over 90 minutes and advance to the quarter-finals.

Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus returns to Belgium's Elise Mertens during a fourth round women's singles match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Sunday, July 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

It’s Iga Świątek, the five-time Grand Slam champion who spent 125 weeks as the world No. 1 between early 2022 and late 2024. She’s the No. 8 seed at Wimbledon, but she’s actually the world No. 4. Only three of the top seven players in the world are left in the draw.

Amanda Anisimova is back into the Wimbledon quarterfinals after beating Linda Noskova 6-2, 5-7, 6-4. The American battled back from a breakdown in the third set to advance to her third Grand Slam quarterfinals, her first coming at Wimbledon in 2022.

Aryna Sabalenka maintained her stranglehold over Belgian Elise Mertens with a hard-fought 6-4 7-6 (4) victory on Sunday to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals as she bids for a maiden title at the grasscourt Grand Slam.

World number one Aryna Sabalenka overcomes a battling Elise Mertens to reach the quarter-finals and stay on course for a first Wimbledon title.

The All England Club, somewhat ironically, is blaming “human error” for a glaring mistake by the electronic system that replaced human line judges this year at Wimbledon. The CEO of the club, Sally Bolton,

Wimbledon organisers apologise after the electronic line-calling system on Centre Court is turned off in error and misses three calls in one game.

Wimbledon's automated line-calling technology came under fire on Sunday after an embarrassing malfunction robbed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of a point during her last-16 victory over Britain's Sonay Kartal on Centre Court.