Serena Williams storms on as last top-10 seed Karolina Pliskova goes out

• American seeded 25th overpowers Evgeniya Rodina 6-2, 6-2
• Seventh seed beaten 6-3, 7-6 by the 20th seed, Kiki Bertens

Seven of the remaining eight women who have made it through to the quarter-finals here will be dreaming big, wondering if it will be their name engraved on the trophy on Saturday afternoon for the first time. Unfortunately for them, the other member of the eight is Serena Williams. She has been here before.

The defeat of seventh seed Karolina Pliskova on Monday, beaten 6-3, 7-6(1) by Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands, means that for the first time since Wimbledon introduced seedings in 1927, none of the top eight are in the quarter-finals.

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