The Russian Roman Safiullin gave the surprise by eliminating the Canadian Denis Shapovalov (3-6, 6-3, 6-1 and 6-3) and he is already a quarter-finalist Wimbledon. A little over a month ago, he was in a very different situation since he had forgotten to register for the Roland Garros preview and found himself without playing the Parisian “major”.

Now life has smiled on her and After beating Roberto Bautista, Corentin Moutet, Guido Pella and Shapovalov, he reached the quarter-finals. And he did it with boundless aggression, with 219 game-winning strokes in four matches, more than any other tennis player on the men’s roster. It brought him €400,000 for reaching the quarter-finals, the highest prize pool of his sporting career, which until Wimbledon had generated €1.1 million at the age of 25.

In the next round he will face the Italian Jannick Sinnerwhich ended the adventure of Daniel Elahi Galán, the first Colombian in the history of the knockout stages of Wimbledon, and eliminated him from the tournament 7-6 (4), 6-4 and 6-3. Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov was also in the fast lanewho surprised the American Frances Tiafoe by winning in three sets (6-2, 6-3, 6-2).

Russian Andrey Rublev suffered morewho will play his first quarterfinals at Wimbledon after defeating Kazakh Alexander Bublik 7-5, 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-7 (5) and 6-4. The Russian disabled Bublik’s 39 direct aces -for a total of 67 winners-, thanks to a very solid match in which he committed only 21 unforced errors and in which he did not crack despite losing the third and fourth sets in the ‘tie break’ and losing two points in the fourth game.