Gauff and Osaka Reach Wimbledon Quarterfinals on Day Seven

Coco Gauff defeated Belinda Bencic 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the Wimbledon women's singles round of 16 on day seven, reaching the quarterfinals for the first time in her career. The match ended just before the 23:00 BST curfew on Court One. Gauff said after the match she was super happy to be in the quarters finally and did not know how many tries it had been.

She added that she was looking at the clock in the last service game and went for serve and volley on match point to end the point quickly. Gauff also said she was not used to racing for time and was definitely hungry for more. Defending champion Jannik Sinner defeated Shintaro Mochizuki 6-3, 7-6 (7-0), 6-3 in the men's singles round of 16.

Naomi Osaka defeated world number one Aryna Sabalenka 6-2, 7-6 (7-2) in the women's singles round of 16. Novak Djokovic defeated Roman Safiullin 7-6 (8-6), 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in the men's singles round of 16 and broke Roger Federer's record during the match. Felix Auger-Aliassime defeated Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (8-6), 6-3, 6-7 (2-7), 6-1 in the men's singles round of 16.

Hubert Hurkacz retired against Jan-Lennard Struff while trailing 4-2 in the fifth set. Jessica Pegula defeated Iva Jovic 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 in the women's singles round of 16. Karolina Muchova defeated 2024 champion Barbora Krejcikova 7-5, 5-7, 6-3 in the women's singles round of 16.

Harri Heliovaara and Henry Patten defeated Adam Pavlasek and Patrik Rikl 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (10-6) in the men's doubles round of 16. Several other doubles matches were completed on day seven, including wins for Su-Wei Hsieh and Xinyu Wang, Asia Muhammad and Fanny Stollar, Christian Harrison and Shuai Zhang, Marc Polmans and Storm Hunter, Shuko Aoyama and En-Shuo Liang, Ellen Perez and Demi Schuurs, Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Laura Siegemund, and Neal Skupski and Desirae Krawczyk.