Wimbledon men’s quarter-finals: Djokovic comes through thriller

As Wimbledon enters the latter stage of its competition, Coral preview the top half of the men’s singles quarter-finals draw where three reigning Grand Slam winners feature.

Defending All-England Club champion Novak Djokovic duels with Marin Cilic (US Open), while Stan Wawrinka (French Open) is up against Richard Gasquet.

Novak Djokovic v Marin Cilic

Eight-time Grand Slam winner Djokovic had to dig deep to keep his chance of defending his SW19 title alive, as he had to come back from two sets down and play across two days against South African Kevin Anderson to reach the quarters.

The 11/10 title favourite now has to face a similar, and arguably tougher, opponent in tall big-server Cilic, but the Croat has never beaten the world number one in an incredible 12 attempts.

They have, however, met at Wimbledon before, last year at this same stage, with the Serb winning in five sets and he is a tempting 7/1 chance to do so again. Cilic has already faced two five-setters this tournament so far.

Djokovic is the heavy 1/12 odds-on favourite just for victory, with the Croatian priced at 13/2, and the former is more fancied at 4/7 to triumph in straight sets, which he has done eight times against his upcoming opponent before.

Stan Wawrinka v Richard Gasquet