Li crashes out, Novak survives

Li crashes out, Novak survives

Chinese superstar Li Na crashed out of Wimbledon Friday in another twist to her love-hate relationship with the tournament while Novak Djokovic made the last-16 but only after surviving a painful fall.
Second seed Li lost 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (7/5) in the third round to Barbora Zahlavova Strycova of the Czech Republic with the defeat coming hot on the heels of her shock first round exit at the French Open.
In eight appearances at Wimbledon, the 32-year-old Li has still never got beyond the quarter-finals, comfortably her least successful Grand Slam tournament.
The match ended in bizarre circumstances with Li, facing match point, successfully challenging a forehand which had been called long.
Top seed Djokovic survived a shoulder injury scare to reach the fourth round for the eighth time with a 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 win over Gilles Simon, his seventh successive victory over the Frenchman.
Djokovic, the 2011 champion, needed a medical timeout to receive treatment and take a painkiller after hurting his left shoulder in a spectacular diving attempt to reach a Simon drive in the sixth game of the third set on Centre Court.
But the Serb overcame the scare to set up a clash with French 14th seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga for a place in the quarterfinals.
Djokovic admitted he was shaken by his fall and finished the match in some discomfort, but the world number two hopes the damage isn't severe enough to impede his chances of continuing in the tournament.
"Yes it was a sharp pain when I fell. It was an awkward fall. I was just hoping nothing was going on bad with the joint," he said.
"There was no damage in the joint, so I could play a few games after that. The muscle was still quite sore because of the impact, so all in all I'm just glad to get through."
Djokovic has won 10 of his 11 meetings with the big-serving Tsonga, including in the 2011 Wimbledon semifinals and the quarter-finals at the 2012 Olympic Games, which were staged at the All England Club.
Tsonga made the last 16 by beating Jimmy Wang of Taiwan, 6-2, 6-2, 7-5
Kevin Anderson, the 20th seed, defeated explosive Italian 16th seed Fabio Fognini 4-6, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2, 6-1 to become the first South African man to reach the Wimbledon fourth round for 14 years.
Former women's world number one Wozniacki reached the last 16 for the fourth time with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Croatian 16-year-old Ana Konjuh, the world number 189.
Belinda Bencic, the 17-year-old Swiss won her delayed second round tie, 6-4, 7-5 against America's Victoria Duval and next faces third-seeded Simona Halep who clinched a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 win over Ukrainian qualifier Lesia Tsurenko.
French Open runner-up Halep will be playing in the third round for the first time.

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