London (AFP)

End of the adventure. The sensation Cori Gauff logically stumbled on Simona Halep Monday, but will remain the revelation of this edition of Wimbledon, a Grand Slam tournament where Benoit Paire still stalled the quarterfinals.

- Pair, the glass ceiling

It will not be for this time again. Benoît Paire, 30, failed to reach the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam, and this on his third attempt. The Avignonnais had never managed to beat Roberto Bautista Agut in six games, the total defeats has increased to seven. He has never managed to find the flaw in the Spanish, applied, solid, and rather quiet, Unlike Pair who often moaned during the game. After the loss of the first set, the French held up to 5 games all over before cracking 6-3, 7-5, 6-2. But the explanation is not to look on the court: the French trailed for several days an injury to the abdominals that clearly handicapped him on this match.

"I had five millimeters of injury (to an abdo), so I had a risk if I forced too much.It is true that with anti-inflammatories, it passes, but I have it in the head (. ..) Nervously, it was a little hard, "he explained just after his match. An inevitably end of the stroke.

"It saddens me because I feel that in terms of level of play, I could have done much better today," he added. "It's unfortunate that it happened to me at that time, I had a good painting." The player probably also pays his tournament management, recognizing that he might not have had to double up. What to have a little more regrets.

- Gauff, end of the dream

Whatever happens, this tournament will remain the one that saw the birth of this tennis phenomenon, and without a doubt the future of women's tennis. But against former world No.1 Simona Halep (7th), the talent and determination of Cori Gauff, the boarder of the Mouratoglou Academy, were not enough, beaten 6-3, 6-3. More solid, more regular, former World No.1 Simona Halep did not give the slightest opportunity to the teenager, who quickly found herself without solution. The 15-year-old American stalls for her first Grand Slam at the doors of the quarter-finals. And ella has been able to measure the road that awaits her in the next few years, she who has set the record for precocity since she was 10 years old. Youngest player in history since Anna Kournikova at the US Open in 1996 to win a Grand Slam match, she is sure to join the top 150 at the end of the tournament.

- Imperial Nadal

Undeniably, the Spaniard marks the spirits in this edition. Already facing Tsonga in the previous round, the world No.2 had impressed, but he still crossed a course against the Portuguese Joao Sousa, dispatched in 1:45 min with only six games abandoned 6-2, 6-2, 6- 2. Rafael Nadal, winner of his 12th Roland-Garros was supposedly a formidable table after the draw, but his performances make the scenario of a semi-final against Roger Federer not only increasingly credible, but especially perilous for Switzerland, looking for a 21st Grand Slam title.

- Barty on the carpet

The blockbuster between Queen Serena and world No.1 Ashleigh Barty will not take place in the quarterfinals. The fault of the Australian, beaten 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 by the American Alison Riske, 55th player in the world, a little to everyone's surprise as nothing had announced this bug. Even the start of the match, with a first set pocketed without problems, predisposed to a win without burr. But Barty wasted and lost the match. "It's hard to swallow but I lost to a better player," she said. The Serena Williams road, quick against Suarez Navarro (6-2, 6-2), looking for a 24th major trophy, was pretty well cleared. Especially as Karolina Pliskova, the world's third, also lost to compatriot Karolina Muchova (68), 4-6, 7-5, 13-11. That's good news for the 37-year-old American who has made herself feel "better and better day after day".

? 2019 AFP