Wimbledon ladies’ last 16: Wozniacki last top seed in bottom half

Switzerland’s Bacsinszky has a bad record against the Romania of one win in five attempts. The most damaging defeat came at the 2011 Australian Open when Niculescu dropped just three games in a straight sets victory.

Based on this history alone, there’s little justification for Bacsinszky’s odds-on 1/4 status to win, but she did knock out 2013 finalist Sabine Lisicki impressively in round three. The Swiss lady’s game has clearly come on over the last four years, but there’s a lot to like about the 3/1 price for Niculescu to send her home.

Olga Govortsova v Madison Keys
These two have met once before, in Keys’ native USA at the Miami Masters and she won in three sets. A repeat result is 11/4 and much better than the 21st seed’s odds-on 1/4 status as outright match favourite.

Govortsova (3/1 to confound Keys) got the better of Alize Cornet in round two and then beat Magdalena Rybarikova, Ekaterina Makaraova’s conqueror, to reach this stage, but should see her run ended here.

It’s one win in straight sets apiece between these two at Grand Slams, though Serbia’s Jankovic beat Radwanska at this point in the French Open way back in 2008. Four years later, the Pole prevailed a round earlier at the US Open.

Radwanska is odds-on at 4/9 to repeat that, and better at 6/5 for victory without dropping a set. Jankovic is battled-hardened, however, and buoyed by sending Kvitova crashing out of Wimbledon.

Odds of 7/4 for the Serb to upset Radwanska are certainly tempting, as is a 4/1 price for Jankovic to come through in three sets.

Coral’s top tip: We like Wozniacki winning 2-1 at 11/4.