What a difference two days can make - Jamie Murray arrives at Wimbledon shorn of his mullet and sporting a short back and sides Defending champion Venus Williams is out early on Court Two, breaking at 4-3 to win the first set against Alisa Kleybanova The unseeded 18-year-old Kleybanova breaks twice when Williams is serving for the match but the American prevails 6-3 6-4 Zheng Jie becomes the first ever women's wildcard to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals with a 6-3 6-4 win over Agnes Szavay Second seed Jelena Jankovic looks like becoming the latest high-profile name to fall, losing the first set to Tamarine Tanasugarn The cardigan king is back on Centre Court - Roger Federer takes on Lleyton Hewitt, the last man other than the Swiss to win Wimbledon Jankovic looks disillusioned as she drops her serve three times in the second set, allowing Tanasugarn to come through 6-3 6-2 The day after his country's Euro 2008 triumph, Spain's Fernando Verdasco wins the first two sets on Court 11 against Mario Ancic The unseeded Ancic mounts a stunning comeback against 22nd seed Verdasco to triumph in five sets, taking the fifth 13-11 Serena Williams joins her sister Venus in the last eight by overwhelming fellow American Beth Mattek 6-3 6-3 The Centre Court crowd rises to acclaim Federer after the reigning men's champion sees off Hewitt 7-6 (8-6) 6-2 6-4 Nicole Vaidisova, seeded 18, comes back from a set down to completely outclass eighth seed Anna Chakvetadze in three Second seed Rafael Nadal receives prolonged treatment for a knee injury after slipping early in his match against Mikhail Youzhny Bidding to reach his second successive Wimbledon quarter-final, 10th seed Marcos Baghdatis is downed in five sets by Feliciano Lopez Svetlana Kuznetsova cannot bear to look as, after levelling at a set all against Agnieszka Radwanska, she is beaten 6-4 1-6 7-5 Not even injury can prevent Nadal storming through to the last eight, the Spaniard easing past Youzhny 6-3 6-3 6-1 Britain's Andy Murray loses the first set of his match against Richard Gasquet as he bids to reach his first Grand Slam quarter-final Germany's Rainer Schuettler falls to the floor after beating Janko Tipsarevic - well, he is the oldest man left in the singles at 32 After losing the second set, Murray stands on the brink of defeat but mounts a dramatic comeback to take both the third and fourth Two-time Grand Slam winner Marat Safin beats Stanislas Wawrinka in four sets to set up a quarter-final against Feliciano Lopez Murray completes an amazing comeback in near darkness on Centre Court, seeing off Gasquet to set up a quarter-final with Rafael Nadal
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