Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber into Wimbledon quarters

Germany's Angelique Kerber in action against Misaki Doi of Japan at Wimbledon on July 4, 2
AFP
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London (AFP) – Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber breezed into the Wimbledon quarter-finals with a straight-sets victory over Japan’s Misaki Doi on Monday.

The German fourth seed won 6-3, 6-1 on Court Two in a one-sided, 64-minute contest against the world number 49.

Kerber faces either fifth seed Simona Halep of Romania or US ninth seed Madison Keys in Tuesday’s quarter-finals.

Doi was the first Japanese woman to reach the last 16 of any Grand Slam event since Ai Sugiyama made the Wimbledon fourth round in 2006.

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