A day before her 19th birthday, the unseeded left-hander from Canada grabbed the last five games to eliminate 2016 title winner Angelique Kerber 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2 on Sunday.
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It's the year of the newcomer at Wimbledon, and Angelique Kerber is bucking the trend.
As of next year, no longer will all 16 women's and men's fourth-round singles matches be scheduled on one day, a tradition vanishing along with that of a Middle Sunday without any play.
Kerber is seeded 25th for Wimbledon and will play Serbia’s Nina Stojanovic in the first round next week.
The 26th-seeded Kerber was beaten 6-2, 6-4 to Anhelina Kalinina, a qualifier from Ukraine ranked 139th making her tournament debut.
Brady, who is one of four American women still alive in singles, will face either Petra Martic or Yulia Putintseva in her first Grand Slam quarterfinal match.
Pliskova surged ahead of Anhelina Kalinina 4-1 in the opening set, lost three games in a row, then took the last eight for a 6-4, 6-0 victory. She had a 26-7 edge in winners
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova defeated Karolina Pliskova 7-6, 7-6 to win her third round fixture and set up a clash with Angelique Kerber.
All the top 10 seeded women in Australian Open 2020 sealed their spots in the third round of the competition on Thursday.
Angelique Kerber, Simona Halep, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Garbine Muguruza, Karolina Pliskova all moved to round two of Australian Open 2020 while Mari Sharapova was eliminated in her opener.
Collins will play either Donna Vekic or qualifier Yulia Putintseva in the next round, and possibly 2011 U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur after that.
Angelique Kerber lost 6-4, 6-2 to an 18-year-old Roland Garros beginner, Russian Anastasia Potapova, on Court Philippe Chatrier.
Dominic Thiem defeated Roger Federer 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the final while Canadian teenager Bianca Andreescu upset Angelique Kerber 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 to win the women's title at Indian Wells.
It took four match points and 2 hours, 22 minutes before Barty fended off 2008 champion Sharapova 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, reaching the quarterfinals of a major for the first time.
Angelique Kerber defeated Kimberly Birrell 6-1, 6-0 while Danielle Collins shocked Caroline Garcia 6-3, 6-2 in the third round of Australian Open.
Maria Sharapova got out of the Melbourne heat as quickly as she could, needing just 63 minutes to beat British qualifier Harriet Dart 6-0, 6-0 in the first match.
Serena Williams, who won the Australian Open in 2017 while pregnant with daughter Alexis Olympia, returns as the 16th-seeded player after missing last year's tournament.
Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark retained the third sport in this week's unchanged top 10, ahead of Ukraine's Elina Svitolina and Japan's Naomi Osaka.
Halep lost the first set 6-1 to Tunisia's Ons Jabeur before retiring with a back injury that she also had problems with at last week's Wuhan Open.
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